Late one evening, I was having dinner with some vegan friends of mine at Comet Cafe in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Comet is a relatively punky-style small diner in the Lower East Side. We stopped in Milwaukee for dinner after spending about 16 hours on the road. The three of…
I would do anything in my power to prevent the accidental shutdown of a critical server. Unfortunately, Windows makes it really easy to accidentally shut down a computer. One slip of the wrist would cause you to "Shut down" a machine instead of "Sign out" of…
I recently switched from Mastodon to Pleroma, for no real reason in specific other than: Pleroma is far less resource intensive. Setting up Pleroma was a breeze compared to setting up Mastodon--I remember having a great deal of trouble. I enjoy the simpler interface as well. While Pleroma doesn&…
The blog got some visual updates! Most of the content is now a single column, with any meta information, like my bio and external links, are under the content. I’ve added a webring, powered by openring, which shares articles from blogs I follow around the net. I think the…
While we’re a couple of days into August already, a July status update is better late than never! Most of my July has been spent getting myself organized at my day job and assessing my workload after my coworker, whom previously shared my workload, left the company, leaving me…
It's been a year and a half since starting this version of the blog. Behind the scenes, it's been through a lot. Originally hosted on a Vultr VPS, this blog had been passed around to Linode, it had a long stay on a prgmr.com instance,…
That sysadmin really enjoyed working on silly programs in his free time, he even runs a few websites! Oftentimes, this sysadmin is fairly surprised he has a real job as a Systems Engineer/Web Developer. This is one of those times. I recently decided to switch my domains’ name servers…
For a while now, I’ve been aware of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (the EFF), and I make good use of a fair number of their projects. The following is not an exhaustive list: * Privacy Tools * HTTPS Everywhere * Privacy Badger I also follow a fair share of recommendations from Privacy…