I saw a bit more of the future of AI at work this week, and it shows every sign of vastly boosting productivity, while also causing a crisis of meaning in many organizations. For such a dramatic statement, the actual … Read more
Recently I have been interested in Alpine Linux and thought it would be nice to maintain some Rust packages in their repositories. In this post, I will share my notes/adventures on setting up a packaging environment and a tool called … Read more
Over the years, I learned to stay clear of most gear advice on the internet. Between paid-for reviews, gatekeeping, and outright snobbery, there’s little one can learn by asking a random photographer or a woodworker for a list of their … Read more
Given that we’re now within 15 years of the signed 32-bit time_t craziness, I decided to start playing around with my own stuff to see how things are doing. I wanted to see what would break and what would work. … Read more
The other day I was fighting once again with Apple Music. Not the service, the app. What I wanted to do was simple: I have some practice recordings for my choir and voice lessons that I want on my iPhone … Read more
TL;DR This blog post explains how setting an environment variable can save thousands (or in some cases, tens of thousands) of unnecessary system calls that can be generated by glibc over small periods of time. This has been tested on … Read more
This week I received a new 12th Gen Intel laptop from Framework. And like with any new piece of hardware I get these days, my first instinct was to put NixOS on it 😄. But I wasn’t just content with … Read more
Our household has a few Raspberry Pi’s doing various tasks from tracking airplanes flying overhead, measuring temperature humidity in our house, Docker projects, and several more hidden away for a rainy day. The rainy day finally arrived when I stumbled … Read more
I can think of far better ways to spend a quiet Sunday afternoon than trying to get Doom Emacs to serve as an email client, but I couldn’t at the time. So here I am scanning my inbox in the … Read more
After seeing Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 for Families mentioned on the front page of HackerNews, I thought it might be helpful to show those currently using a pi-hole device how to include 1.1.1.1 alongside it. Keeping Things Updated It should go without … Read more