Brian C. Lane

Some of the trucks at the 2025 C10s On The Capital show.

Photos from the 42nd annual NW Vintage VW Meet (2025)

Went to the Kluh Jewelers car show yesterday and got these shots.

I’ve mostly automated the setup of the software for the Life display frame software.

Last year I wrote about my sdl2-life program, adding color to it, and seeding it with data from my website logs.

I made it to the Olymic Air Show today.

This is a followup to the qemu with PXE boot post I wrote a few years back.

DigiTemp is a simple to use program for reading values from 1-wire devices.

After letting the life server I wrote about last month run for a bit I decided that all white cells are a bit boring and I started exploring ways to add some color to it.

A few years back I was experimenting with Go and SDL2, I wrote a dead-simple Conway's Game of Life program with it, added loading of a couple popular pattern file formats, and was pretty much finished with it.

Back in 2017 I mentioned that the API I have been using for my Roku Home Media Server project was going to be replaced by SceneGraph and that I would need to rewrite things.

One of the projects that I work on is osbuild-composer .

It has been quite some time since I wrote about one of my longest running projects, MovieLandmarks .

I had an older PostgreSQL 12 install using FreeBSD jails and ZFS.

The day started with a plan.

A while back Jessie Frazelle wrote a neat blog post on running desktop applications using Docker containers.

The Ansible playbooks for this article can be found here I have a laptop that I use for experimenting with different operating systems.

I like hosting my own services when possible.

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I wanted to add some kind of doorbell indication to my office, and was almost ready to start buying parts for wired doorbell sensor like this one on hackaday.com , but I wasn’t sure how well it would work with the Beagle Bone Black that’s running my digit…

Letterbox is a simple Go program that accepts SMTP connections and delivers mail to a per-user maildir directory.

I went for a hike the other day and managed to capture some decent photos of a dragonfly.

I was expecting to spend the whole afternoon getting a tftp server setup so I could PXE boot some qemu virtual machines for testing.

Testing out the gallery from here .

mpd-status is a simple Go program that queries the music player daemon and prints out the status for use with tmux .

In 2010 I wrote about a simple method for migrating schema with Python .

One drawback to using a static site is that when you make changes to things that are shared between pages all those pages have to be updated.

This blog has been running on Pelican since 2011.

Back in 2013 I wrote about using socat with Tor to setup a Hidden Service chat.

Whonix has released version 14.0.0.9.6 of their XFCE KVM build .

You are being tracked.

I recently needed to convert a CD of xrays into jpeg images, and it wasn’t immediately obvious how to do this.

Inspired by this old post from Rob Smith I have started making some changes to the blog.

The story of how I saved $388.53 by fixing my broken trackball

Changing how HMS shows the movies so that it will load faster.

Setting up an offline movie player using a Raspberry Pi and a Roku player.

I am transitioning to a new GnuPG key, here is my transition statement, based on one from Simon Josefsson Here is my signed statement: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512,SHA1 OpenPGP Key Transition Statement for Brian C.

I was going to write about using mock to make live iso's without using virt-install, but this week is the OpenStack Summit and one of the things you can use livemedia-creator (lmc) for is making disk images for use with OpenStack.

In this post I am going to describe how to create bootable live isos using livemedia-creator (lmc).

Fedora 22 is almost here, so I thought I'd write a couple posts on how to use lorax and livemedia-creator to create bootable Fedora images.

Home Media Server is a Roku application for streaming video from a http server.

There are occasions where I’d like to be able to ssh to a system without using the password or having to setup a ssh key.

I have started using Ansible to manage the few services that I still have running around here.

clortho is a very simple key/value server written using python 3.4 and aiohttp key namespace is per-client IP address, and there is no authentication.

On June 5th the EFF called for people to ‘Reset the Net’ and do something to enhance their privacy on the net.

Automatic backups are important, especially when it comes to irreplaceable data like family photos.

It is easy to setup a simple chat over Tor using the socat utility.

For years I have dual booted my Macbook with Fedora.

The temperature sensors that I use to drive the freezer graph are in my garage, which doesn’t have an easy way to run wires to the server room.

The NASCAR Countdown app displays a countdown to the next NASCAR race, the name of the race and the television network carrying the race.