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Part of the journey to a new Linux home server includes migrating from Docker to rootless Podman.

These are the notes I made while trying to understand how I can serve a Podman container to my Tailnet.

Today I ran into a great use case for a local LLM: converting grep output into config code.

Originally posted on Mastodon.

I’ve started playing with LLMs.

Last week I migrated the various web sites I host 1 from Nginx to Caddy.

Doing end-of-the-year security housekeeping and figured it was time to generate a new GPG key with modern defaults.

If you can’t contact your loved ones, or government agencies and relief organizations can’t coordinate, you can’t get anything done. […] A communications system is only useful if you can connect to every other endpoint on the network.

A secret process that requires neither “concrete facts” nor “irrefutable evidence” … “Instead of a watchlist limited to actual, known terrorists, the government has built a vast system based on the unproven and flawed premise that it can predict if a pers…

Yesterday, virtualenv-burrito 2.7 was released.

After 14 years, it’s time for a new GPG key adhering to modern standards.

x.pose is a wearable data-driven sculpture that exposes a person’s skin as a real-time reflection of the data that the wearer is producing.

A simple way for Python cron tasks to exit if another process is currently running.

Update 2011-09-27: Turns out virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper support this out of the box.

Tired of (yet again) fixing the Elasticfox Firefox extension to work with the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, I finally just made one with an absurd maximum version defined.

This is part of the mini-series OpenSSH for Devs.

This is part of the mini-series OpenSSH for Devs.

There have been many surprises as I’ve moved from Sysadmin to Coder.

Starting with the punk rock creation story, Brewer’s CAP Theorem discusses the fascinating, proven theorem that you can’t have all three of consistency, availability, and partition-tolerance in a distributed system.

This Python breakfast just got tastier.

Over the weekend I finished1 a tool called Virtualenv Burrito.

See Adam Simpson’s 2011 BAFTA illustrations for the 5 Best Film nominees.

Paul Vanoue’s Latent Figure Protocol “utilizes known sequences in online [DNA] databases to produce ‘planned’ images” of ☠ and ©.”

Bomb crater swimming pools A trained civil engineer, he then turned the hole into a kidney-shaped swimming pool, flourished with a fine biomorphic indentation.

Carniverous furniture Disturbing and intriguing.

Tools never die.

My neutrophils can kick your white blood cells’ butt

Although it’s been a few years since I switched from full-time Sysadmin to full-time Coder, being in a startup means getting saddled with an opsy task now and again regardless of your “title”.

On Jan 30, 2010, at 11:58 PM, Your Friend wrote: Just a quick little snippet from an apple town hall that rings true to me — whenever [my wife]’s CPU goes crazy and starts overheating it’s because of a website w/ flash content… As for Adobe, Jobs said they

Via Daring Fireball: EtherPad to Shut Down After Google Acquisition of Parent Company AppJet Sad.

How David Beats Goliath: When underdogs break the rules This is a great article about how underdogs can win most of the time when they stray from the accepted rules of engagement.

I just learned about this project this morning.

More unnecessary force and an illegal arrest.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom gave a seminar for The Long Now Foundation entitled “Cities and Time”.

During Steve Huffman’s and Alexis Ohanian’s Pycon Keynote, someone asked why Reddit was moved from Lisp to Python.

I have had so many problems managing the wordpress software, it’s ridiculous.

On most sites I visit, error pages are infrequent.

The group I work with has thought about using Django a few times, but our biggest concern has been the lock-in you get with their base components.

Clay Shirky has an incredible article about the Newspaper industry failing to come to terms with its own demise.

Zed Shaw’s NYC VCs Can’t Do Math poses a theory on why California has so many tech startups: There are several reasons why technology just doesn’t take off [in NYC] the way it does in Silicon Valley.

Perhaps Last.fm’s recent revelation will elighten more people to a longstanding reality about the tabloid Techcrunch: Techcrunch are full of shit On a whim, I decided to look up shitcrunch.com and found a blog that was created (but never used) in November…

Although only 1½ people read this blog, I’m hoping I’ll get some responses to this puzzle.

A good, week-long, winter respite at the old Sonoma house … Brandon also put a couple of images on his blog.

Ubuntu server edition “brings the power of inexpensive shared storage to your servers”.

This year’s Halloween Critical Mass was as awesome as always.

If you are being text spammed by a short-code (a mobile number typically 5 digits long), just reply with “STOP”.

How they dare to bring Hitler into the mix is beyond me.

A few things I found particularly interesting this week: Flash Vorbis player – An open source vorbis player in a 46KB SWF file!

Sometimes I want to make a port on my home network (airport and OS X laptop) accessible to the world.