Assorted Nerdery

Cool discovery: Anyone who has their primary residence in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, works in Massachusetts, or owns residential property in the Commonwealth can apply for and receive an eCard for the Boston Public Library.

In October 2023, I had 23 solar panels installed on my roof in the Boston area.

One of the recurring joys of home ownership is plumbing.

I’m trying an experiment with Cloudflare analytics and have enabled it on this page.

If you’re coming here from the Chelsea Research Festival, I’ll be uploading more information about the project in the coming days.

Comcast and I have long had a strained relationship.

After a recent power outage at our house, I purchased a UPS to help keep the internet online the next time.

Prior to moving in our house, we replaced the old coil burner stove with a nice fancy GE Profile Induction range - their PHS930SL2SS model.

After our old Ford Fusion went for a swim in a rainstorm, we brought home a 2016 Chevy Volt.

Happy New Year to All!

I saw recently that Paypal would start blocking VPN and SmartDNS services.

Back in December, Ed Felten and the White House asked for public comment on the EFF’s pro-cryptography petition.

I recently came into possession of a nice new Vizio Smart TV.

In my previous post on this topic, I tried to detail the way that I fetch and send email using my laptop using a combination of mbsync and systemd.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 My SSL certificate expired on 11/1.

I’m disabling comments on this blog as of today.

I recently purchased a cheap T-mobile broadband USB stick for use with my Debian Linux laptop.

I fly UA quite often and regularly get internet on my flights.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I mistakenly deleted the secret key material for my PGP signing and encryption subkeys.

Overview Some months back, I discovered the Notmuch mail reader.