Jun 12, 2020
Pop!-os or Chromebook —
This has been a week of learning. While I have been working on a new network installation
I also plugged into a new des...
Jun 12, 2020
Configuration as Code —
About 10 years ago I was introduced to the concept of "configuration as code". In the years that followed
I've had some...
Jun 11, 2020
Ubiquiti UDM Gone Wrong —
I'm about $1000 into a complete network rebuild. Initially my network was based on a different Ubiquiti product
called ...
Jun 2, 2020
Gitlab Sucks —
Here is my chortlist why gitlab sucks:
- gitlab is built upon git... from the author git is complicated and hard and m...
Jun 1, 2020
Ubiquiti Unify or Edgemax —
Some talking head described the [Ubiquiti](https://ui.com) product lines like this:
- Edgemax is for the ISP
- Unify i...
May 31, 2020
Nothing Better Than C —
> "when I read C I know what the assembly language will look like" -- Linus Torvolds
I have said similar things becaus...
May 28, 2020
Pi 4 8GB —
The new "Raspberry Pi 4 Model B - 8GB" is out. But what does it mean and what's it good for? I Dunno. Compared to an
I...
May 24, 2020
State of The Art Development —
Back in the day software development was pretty straight forward. You would buy an IDE from one of about a half
dozen s...
May 24, 2020
Iclever Folding Keyboard —
Con
- hinges seem weak and could fail and are kinda in the way
- little feetare anoying and not stable
- backlighting ...
May 24, 2020
Brydge C Type Keyboard —
Con
- I was having trouble with the spacebar ... somethings I'm willing to accept be this is a deal breaker as I'm hav...
May 24, 2020
Logitech Keys to Go —
My logitech Keys To Go...
Con
- the power button is tiny
- no function keys
- no chromeos compat even though it works...
May 24, 2020
Logitech K400 —
I'm going thru my keyboards...
Con
- deep throws
- keep misplacing the dongle
- windows/doc layout
To note
- media ...
May 24, 2020
Logitech K480 —
I'm going thru my keyboards...
Con
- almost 2 pounds
- feel ... not a traditional IBM or a laptop feel
- it's huge - ...
May 24, 2020
Bluetooth Keyboard —
A quick note to mention that Bluetooth keyboard [a] subject to other rafio interferance.
[b] do not work well with linu...
May 24, 2020
Google Classroom —
Since I am not an educator with access to an `edu` domain I have to go with what I see and read.
Recently I read an art...
May 23, 2020
Webassembly Appliance Server —
I can make a case for a webassembly microservice appliance.
> The world is changing and TRUST is more important than e...
May 23, 2020
Open Source Basic —
Rich Turner posted an interesting article about [MS opensourcing GW-Basic](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/m...
May 22, 2020
Programmer or Devops —
> Are you a programmer or do you do sysadmin functions too?
When you think of these traditional roles what did people...
May 22, 2020
Agile Release Schedule —
Once you get past the honest definition of `Agile`... ugh. CoreOS was my first experience with
auto updating operating ...
May 21, 2020
Getting Comfortable With Immutability —
I like [OpenBSD](https://www.openbsd.org/) for many reasons. For me it is the realization that
when the PC-World starte...
May 19, 2020
Chroot —
`chroot` is helpful in that you can sandbox the execution path and if someone manages to escape your
app that the amoun...
May 19, 2020
Forums for Customer Support —
Free as in _free_ always has a cost. That businesses and open source projects and services resort to
open forums is a ...
May 19, 2020
Rust Again —
There is something to be said about being about to compile your code on a Win95 machine and then simply
copy it onto a...
May 19, 2020
Golang2 Draft Reply —
I've been using golang for a while and I really like it. It's not perfect but I do not need it to be perfect. I need it...
May 18, 2020
Web Assembly Second Thoughts —
I was about to wrap my arms around webassembly... and then I realized that based on the application types I build
if I ...
May 18, 2020
Programming Languages Languages Languages —
Uncle "Bob" Martin commented on the proliferation of new programming languages buy saying, hinting and suggesting:
- n...
May 17, 2020
Clear Linux Systemd Nspawn Containers of Self —
ClearLinux (server) boots in about 1-2 seconds... and I can ssh into my instance in just a few seconds. The Intel team
...
May 16, 2020
There Is a Place for Docker When Done Right —
First of all I have come to hate `docker`. At one time it was an interesting solution to a serious problem.
The problem...
May 15, 2020
How Many Languages Do We Need? —
I don't remember exactly what I was thinking when I chose this title but I was watching a [video](https://www.youtube.c...
May 15, 2020
Should Microsoft Buy Ubuntu —
I read the [headline](https://build5nines.com/microsoft-to-acquire-canonical-ubuntu-should-they/) and then saw the foll...
May 14, 2020
Learned New Things Today —
## Number 1 - technology
There is clearly something wrong in my house... while my EXPENSIVE bluetooth headset works in...
May 12, 2020
Bluetooth Keyboards —
What was I thinking when I clicked NEW?
Bluetooth is hit and miss on all of my computers from Windows, Mac, ChromeOS,
...
May 10, 2020
Pop!-OS Desktop —
I've been a dedicated ChromeOS user for a long while. I like the idea of
shielding the user from the OS. Where the inte...
May 9, 2020
Linux Distros —
Talking heads want to know if the multitude of linux distros are still relavent. In a word yes.
You wouldn't know it a...
May 9, 2020
Go Generics So Long —
I have been a professional programmer since 1982. Back in those days I developed all sorts of apps
in assembler, C, pas...
May 9, 2020
Raspberry Pi —
What's a pi good for? I have 3 reasons for owning a number of Rasbperry Pi 4s.
- just to see what it's all about!
- wh...
May 9, 2020
Two Factor Authentication (2FA) —
2FA is probably a good thing but for certain it adds complexity and unless you
are an expert it might not make things b...
May 9, 2020
Delete Bookmarks —
Being a remote, aka telecommute, worker who depends on ChromeOS devices to do my work I recognize
that _minimalism_ pa...
May 8, 2020
New Linux Distro —
C-19 has been good for one thing; I have been able to test new linux OS installations. For
example I have found that Cl...
May 7, 2020
Going Full Chrome Os Programmer —
I watch ChromeOS unboxing videos from time to time and many just frustrate me bcause many simply do not get it.
Let's s...
May 7, 2020
One Big Prepper Mistake —
2018 we bought a new LG fridge. This model was one of the nicer models and one that was well rated on comsumer reports....
May 6, 2020
Docker Is Dead to Me —
I was once a docker fanboy and now I'm recovering. Don't get me wrong docker and it's descendents is awesome
but compl...
May 3, 2020
Still Using Chromeos —
I have been a ChromeOS wannabe since the says of th google POC. I finally bought my first Samsung ChromeBox when I star...
Apr 30, 2020
Rust Lang Plus Plus —
I've written about rust-lang before. I'm not sure what my position was back then but it probably was not a positive.
I ...
Apr 30, 2020
Need for Speed —
Is the Edgerouter-X fast enough to support symetric 1Gbps from my ISP? Actually the first question is: Is it really syn...
Apr 29, 2020
Static or Dhcp —
The question on inquiring minds is whether it's advantageous to deploy systems and services assigning static IPs to eac...
Feb 9, 2020
Two Factor Authorization (2FA) —
If you need to know exactly what 2FA is then you should do some proper reading. It has a great many moving parts and in...
Feb 9, 2020
Raspbian Jail Sucks Unexpected Install —
I'm not sure what hapened to me and all of a sudden I like _chroot_ and _jail_. While _jail_ is not
available on _OpenB...
Feb 7, 2020
Public Interest —
Alan 'the dersh' Dershowitz made some bold and WRONG claims at the trump impeachment and it does not take a constitutio...
Feb 6, 2020
Garbage Collection —
Time to take out the trash...
I responded to a recent "go to rust" article. One of the _pluses_ for rust was that it d...
Feb 6, 2020
Cluster RH-ShadowBox What Is It Good For —
Frustrated with the state of the world I've decided to last out at the RHSHADOWBOX project. Don't get me wrong
there is...
Feb 5, 2020
Raspberry Pi Cluster —
A few weeks ago I was scanning the Raspberry Pi website. I was not looking for anything
in particular but in the end I ...
Feb 4, 2020
Go Discord Rust —
I just read a technica article from the Discord team. Someone in their infinite wisdom decided to rewrite some
systems ...
Feb 4, 2020
ARM Versus Intel —
I hate to say it's a complicated subject but there are plenty of moving parts. And while my knowledge is not firsthand ...
Feb 3, 2020
Raspberry Pi Config - as a jump server —
## Intro
There is something to be said for not giving too much away. Whether that's actually not giving too much away ...
Jan 30, 2020
Making Camp breakfast —
I have not gone hiking in over a year and I'm feeling the call of the wild. So this morning I decided to make a camp br...
Jan 30, 2020
Vargo stoves —
Let me start by saying that I like Vargo products but in the grand scheme of things I'm not sure they are worth the exp...
Jan 27, 2020
Score +1 for Dell Computers —
I was just looking at the Qubes-OS and the question of what would be my next hardware device. I love me some Lenovo and...
Jan 27, 2020
Strike 2 - raspberry —
Many of the PI vendors have a household limit on the number of Pi(s) that you can buy. And most of them are sold out. A...
Jan 23, 2020
What about ARM84 processors? —
In recent months Google and Amazon have announced and released ARM-based VPS servers. For months I have been thinking a...
Jan 19, 2020
Biometrics and serveillance capitalism —
1. just a few years ago there was a thing called bioinformatics which seemed to coincide with ideas like fingerprint ac...
Jan 18, 2020
Golang vs Rust —
Both Golang and Rust originated from a good place and for good reason. It has long been suggested that large corporatio...
Jan 12, 2020
Why Pi? —
Before anyone says that that they "built" a computer they need to qualify their experice because in most cases, unless ...
Jan 4, 2020
OpenBSD on my laptop —
I've been thinking and trying to install OpenBSD on one of my legacy laptops. This is a basic response to the "surveill...
Jan 4, 2020
Survcap —
[This](https://youtu.be/hIXhnWUmMvw) video is super spooky. I find myself asking a new category of questions and it's d...
Jan 3, 2020
Best programming languages in 2020; python is dead —
Leading up to New Years Eve 2020 there were countless "best programming language(s)" posts all over the place.
Of cours...
Jan 3, 2020
The 10x Programer is Dead —
It's 2020 and some talking head is saying that after a decade the _cranky_ 10x programmer is dead.
That sort of stateme...
Jan 1, 2020
2020 —
What an interesting start to 2020.
I dream in code... I had a nightmare of a day yesterday trying to fix my SSL certs i...
Dec 12, 2019
My outdoor kitchen —
Today my outdoor kitchen consists of a Weber propane grill and a large Green Egg BBQ. For many years I was a green egg ...
Nov 28, 2019
Amazon Fire 10 —
The Fire 10 arrived yesterday and I tried to get the $50 price adjustment and Amazon was just not interested in custome...
Nov 28, 2019
Deep State —
I have no idea what it means... the Wikipedia[1] definition is closer to what I thought it was but then I heard congress...
Nov 28, 2019
Fire OS storage —
Amazon pricing changes wildly depending on the amount of internal storage you select. My Fire 10 went from $149 to $17...
Nov 28, 2019
Firewalla —
I'm struggling to see my way through multiple ISPs and WAN load-balancing as well as securing against threats... so I r...
Nov 28, 2019
Why Are You Still Using Android? —
I remember when I had my first on-call job. I was assigned a small beeper about the size of a pack of matches.
Not to be compared to counterfeit; Fast Fashion (FF) is the act of k...
Nov 27, 2019
k8s k3s k8s —
... in those immortal words of Marsha Brady. The thing is "we" seem to be adopting k8s _squirrel_ as fast as _squirrel_...
Nov 13, 2019
dead pixels —
I have never had a dead pixel so when I read:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Small numbers (1-3) of stuck or dead pixel...
Nov 12, 2019
static site generators —
Static site generators are pretty cool. Granted they are an oversimplification of the java/json/xml/xslt site manifesta...
Nov 9, 2019
how fast is too fast —
I like my google pixel and my slate. These machines have a ton of RAM and plenty of CPU. But as I started looking into ...
Nov 8, 2019
rust is the anti tcl —
I was feeling pretty good about wanting to try <i>rust-lang</i>. Then I checked the size...<br /><br /><div class="sepa...
Nov 7, 2019
Part 2 - the ideal system —
As I'm racing through the discovery on this subject I'm close to the end. The ideal platform is one that is air-gapped ...
Nov 7, 2019
are you a smart programmer? —
No. Really! Are you a really smart programmer in maybe the top 1% of your field? Considering the number of programmers ...
Nov 7, 2019
Part 1 - the new system —
One thing I like about OpenBSD is that it supports a range of CPUs. That includes some legacy hardware which is sort of...
Nov 7, 2019
business continuity —
Plan B ... in recent weeks "we" have seen a number of scary news reports and blog posts. Granted this stuff can be fake...
Nov 6, 2019
Open Source Security —
You don't need to say anything just think on it for a while. Then after the panic sets in think about it some more. It'...
Nov 6, 2019
insect repellent —
I have a great number of opinions on a bunch of different things. Just see my point on the <i>essential kit</i>. But bu...
Nov 6, 2019
The essential kit —
<i>jupiterhikes</i> goes ultralight but I think he hates the term. He seems to be as prepared as anyone needs to b...
Nov 6, 2019
project management 101 —
The <i>Agile Manifesto</i> and that other kind of <i>agile</i> never took perfection into account.<br /><br /><div clas...
Nov 1, 2019
Software versions I track —
There are a number of projects I track for version control....<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; te...
Nov 1, 2019
facebook has gotta go —
I was watching some right/left wingnuts talking about facebook, political ads and AOC. My takeaway is that facebook has...
Oct 31, 2019
do you accept browser cookies? —
I have no idea what the deal is with asking casual users to accept cookies? It seems like BS to me and more of an exerc...
Oct 30, 2019
underestimating Snugpak —
I have underestimated <b><i>Snugpak</i></b>. As a design team and manufacturer of "adventure gear" they cover your gear...