Tyblog

Figure 1: The Meeting of San Carlo Borromeo and San Filippo Neri ; emacs logo licensed under GPLv3 from Wikimedia On the bad side of town underneath the freeway overpass with a needle full of lisp is a wild-eyed man who likes to abuse emacs.

Figure 1: Plato’s Cave by Jan Pietersz Saenredam; 24 hour clock licensed under CC3 from Wikimedia; systemd logo by the systemd project licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0 My favorite metonymic technology term is “cron job”: even though cron may not literally be t…

Figure 1: Heed the call, halfling This moment—early 2026—is a particularly well-suited time in history to start self-hosting applications and rely on your own infrastructure.

…because without dramatic policies that addressed the disruption that artificial intelligence products introduced, we’d be in a bad spot.

This is the blog post I wished I could have read when making electric vehicle (EV) purchasing decisions in 2024.

Figure 1: Happy little storage buckets made of star stuff.

Figure 1: The systemd wars of the tenties were harsh and casualties were many The year is 2013 and I am hopping mad. systemd is replacing my plaintext logs with a binary format and pumping steroids into init and it is laughing at me.

Figure 1: The modern programmer’s dilemma Today I realized that – distinct from the idea of AI misalignment – today’s human resource departments have misaligned incentives for how employees will (or are?)

This post isn’t about the virtues of some editors versus others: that’s already been written by somebody else (and it’s really good) – if you want to know why I use emacs, I suggest reading that instead.

There’s a common joke out there that bloggers will write more about their blogging system than actual content.

If you’re a NixOS user, knowing what will change on your system when performing updates can be tricky.

You can build your own voice assistant to avoid the questionable privacy consequences of bringing an Alexa or Google Assistant into your home.

Figure 1: Saturn devouring the GPL Here’s a free product idea for the ambitious and morally flexible reader: Microsoft charges you $10/month for access to a service that harvests intellectual property, launders it through an algorithm, and then presents it

Docker is the de facto solution for packaging most server-side applications these days.

This blog post is about benchmarking Caddy against Nginx and their respective performance metrics as reverse proxies.

About a year ago my Framework laptop arrived.

I have poor command-line hygiene.

Remember when we all used to commit secrets to source code repositories?

My little lab can afford some experimental allowances given that I’ll never (hopefully) breach the “thousands of hosts” mark.

If you’re like me, you: have to look up Dockerfile quirks each time you write one, never know whether a container you exec into will have bash, sh, or whatever other shell, and are never sure which container init is currently the best practice.

I use a lot of software tools for my job - and personally, for that matter.

These days, I almost exclusively run Arch Linux in my homelab and personal machines.

I often think back to previous years about the best movies, games, and books that I find and wish I had recorded them somewhere.

My blog post about ssh is still the most frequently read content on my blog four years later.

A few months ago I rebuilt my router on an espressobin and got the itch to overhaul the rest of my homelab.

After my Asus N66U kicked the bucket, I considered a few options: another all-in-one router, upgrade to something like an EdgeRouter, or brew something custom.

I read a lot of tech success stories, but most of them revolve around building out or creating cool stuff.

systemd: it’s the init system that (some?)

I recently (finally!)

I recently used systemd, HandBrake, and some simple scripts to digitize a large collection of physical media (for personal, archival use.)

Honeypots are rad.

This is just a short blip for people running Docker on CentOS who have encountered problems accessing containers from outside the localhost.

There are many subtle joys associated with working almost exclusively in the command line all day: tab completion, a simple interface, and unix pipes.

OpenSSH is an incredible tool.

Have I got your attention?

Last weekend I participated in a capture-the-flag event sponsored by Bishop Fox and ran by students at BYU.

Figure 1: Docker Docker is an interesting cgroups-based virtualization alternative that uses containers to deploy applications.

Figure 1: Sample screenshot editing my .vimrc Vim is an excellent text editor.

Figure 1: The final product A while back I finally got my 512MB revision 2 model Raspberry Pi to successfully run OpenELEC.

Figure 1: Another blog to read, why not?

This is, hopefully, the beginning of my personal blog entries.