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Michael W Lucas

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The rejection letters will blot out the Sun? Then I shall WRITE IN THE SHADE!

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2026 37

  1. New story: Tormented by Teledildonics
  2. September’s Syzygant Sausage
  3. “Self-Publishing Success Stories” panel, 15 November 2026
  4. Gumroad Stores Dead
  5. from Twisted Presents: The Last Hour of Hogswatch
  6. Launching Today: Twisted Presents
  7. August’s Aqueous Sausage
  8. Penguicon 2027 Guest of Honor
  9. Crowdfunding Pricing and Costs
  10. Sponsorship Prices Increase
  11. Changing Language for Storage Capacity
  12. Cover Font Headaches
  13. July’s Jangada Sausage
  14. Seattle Gelato Meetup, 30 July 2026
  15. Saucer, Separated
  16. June’s Juryrigged Sausage
  17. Called Out By A Cookie
  18. Two new short stories in my store
  19. Saucer Separation and Amazon Wishlist
  20. Time Travel Bundle and Interview
  21. Patronage Headaches
  22. Saucer Separation
  23. A personal note
  24. On April Fools’ Pranks
  25. for 1 April 2026: “Networking for System Administrators, The Defenestrated Edition”
  26. February’s Febrile Sausage
  27. Talking at NYCBUG 1 April 2026
  28. FreeBSD security report on successful logins
  29. Original N4SA2e cover art for sale!
  30. Fundraising Auction Over
  31. Kansas or Minneapolis Fundraiser
  32. January’s Jammed Sausage
  33. “OpenZFS Mastery” device names options
  34. Paypal re-enabled on my store
  35. December’s Dastardly Sausage
  36. My First Ever Awards Eligibility Post
  37. 2025 Income Sources

2025 54

  1. Two new Christmas stories in my shop
  2. November’s Noyous Sausage
  3. TWP books not in Apple Books in the EU
  4. First foreign fiction translation
  5. “Networking for System Administrators, 2nd ed” is out, except on Amazon’s Kindle store
  6. Beastly Virtues
  7. “OpenZFS Mastery” sponsorships now open
  8. N4SA2e signing copies are here
  9. “Networking for System Administrators, 2nd ed” is arriving
  10. October’s Osmundaceous Sausage
  11. N4SA2e Fulfillment Status
  12. N4SA2e Print Sponsor Address Check
  13. Last Day on the N4SA2e Kickstarter
  14. “Networking for System Administrators” Kickstarter closing soon
  15. September’s Stillicidious Sausage
  16. “Networking for System Administrators, 2nd ed” Kickstarter is live
  17. Launching tomorrow: “Networking for System Administrators, 2nd edition”
  18. August’s Anaitiological Sausage
  19. “Networking for System Administrators, 2nd edition” sent to copyedit
  20. Web Site Reorg
  21. I don’t tell jokes: a “DNSSEC Mastery, 2nd Edition” outtake
  22. July’s Janky Sausage
  23. Permanent Discount on Books at My Store
  24. Sysadmin Appreciation Day Sale
  25. June’s Juffled Sausage
  26. I’m teaching at EuroBSDCon
  27. BSDCan Gifts
  28. May’s Mandriarchal Sausage
  29. Buy Your Paperbacks Directly From Me
  30. “Networking for System Administrators” sponsorships closing and schedule.
  31. “Networking for System Administrators” restructuring
  32. Laserblasted Update
  33. Migrating from Apache 2.4 to Caddy
  34. BSDCan Travel Fund Auction in honor of Mike Karels
  35. April’s Abjurational Sausage
  36. Notes on caddy as QUIC reverse proxy with mac_portacl
  37. “Networking for System Administrators, 2nd Edition” Update
  38. More Titles in Direct Print Sales
  39. “Laserblasted” Kickstarter over
  40. An Economic Implosion as viewed through Kickstarter
  41. March’s Merdaille Sausage
  42. “Laserblast” live-toot, Sunday 9PM EDT
  43. 1 April Kickstarter: Laserblasted
  44. New book launches on Kickstarter tomorrow, but no title yet?
  45. Some folks have seen next week’s Kickstarter
  46. Direct Print Sales now shipping from US, UK, Australia, AND… Canada
  47. February’s Fervid Sausage
  48. “SSH Mastery” now available in print direct from me
  49. The Reader Acquisition Funnel
  50. Now available: combined print/ebook bundles direct from my bookstore
  51. January’s Joggly Sausage
  52. New Rats’ Man’s Lackey story: “and the Bringer of Leaves”
  53. December’s Diptheroid Sausage
  54. 2024 Income Sources

2024 66

  1. BSDCan 2025 Chair’s Entirely Personal Comments on the Con Mask Policy
  2. Something coming… or some THING
  3. “Networking for System Administrators, 2nd edition” cover art
  4. New Releases: Dear Abyss, The Last Hour of Hogswatch
  5. November’s Neurypnological Sausage
  6. My Social Media in 2024
  7. October’s Ostrogothic Sausage
  8. “Dear Abyss” live on Kickstarter
  9. New short story in Pulphouse? I read the opening
  10. “Networking for Systems Administrators, 2nd ed” open for sponsorship
  11. Patronizers, Sponsors, and Kickstarter Backers
  12. Building Mastodon Bots is Stupid Easy
  13. Mail Talk 8 October 2024, with bonus Craig Maloney Memorial Charity Auction starting–NOW
  14. September’s Sibilant Sausage
  15. “Run Your Own Mail Server” is leaking out
  16. Moving Virtual Machines to Jails
  17. Why “Run Your Own Mail Server” is not in Amazon’s Kindle store
  18. “Run Your Own Mail Server” sponsor and Patronizer gifts
  19. “Run Your Own Mail Server” Auction for BSD Conference AV Team
  20. August’s Acquernous Sausage
  21. “Run Your Own Mail Server” official release date?
  22. Mailing List Signups Fixed
  23. Ebook of “Run Your Own Mail Server” off to early backers
  24. RYOMS preorders close 14 August 2024
  25. July’s Japish Sausage
  26. Las Vegas Gelato Meetup, 5 August 2024, 7PM
  27. “Run Your Own Mail Server” print layout: 348 pages
  28. Why My Web Store Uses Bookfunnel
  29. RYOMS back from copyedit, preorder time running out
  30. Online Talk on Email, 10 July 2024
  31. June’s Jitterbug Sausage
  32. New FreeBSD Journal issue out, with my Letters column
  33. The new Fantasy Steampunk Storybundle, with orcs!
  34. Public Lecture Monday Night: Nonfiction for Today’s Reader
  35. “Run Your Own Mail Server” status
  36. “Run Your Own Mail Server” print/ebook bundle available
  37. “Run Your Own Mail Server” Kickstarter finished
  38. Kickstarter Madness: Run Your Own Mail Server
  39. May’s Magniloquent Sausage
  40. “Run Your Own Mail Server” Kickstarter Update
  41. “Run Your Own Mail Server” Kickstarter is live!
  42. April’s Anguished Sausage
  43. “Run Your Own Mail Server” Kickstarter prelaunch up
  44. New Prohibition Orcs novelette out
  45. Penguicon 2024 Schedule
  46. March’s Malformed Sausage
  47. xz backdoor vs “$ git commit murder” sale
  48. Vultr backed down, but so what?
  49. Vultr Just Betrayed Us
  50. Shopify vs Woocommerce for Author Bookstores
  51. No Podcast Tomorrow
  52. “Run Your Own Mail Server” off for tech review
  53. February’s Fantabulous Sausage
  54. The end of the Findaway Voices saga (hopefully?)
  55. Findaway Voices followup
  56. Dear writers: Delete your Findaway Voices account NOW
  57. Las Vegas NV Gelato Meetup, 17 February 2024 at Cocolini
  58. Everything, With Banana
  59. Mail Software Projects for You
  60. Block list vs black list in my books
  61. January’s Jalousie Sausage
  62. At long last: the MWL Title Index
  63. Las Vegas NV Gelato Meetup, 17 February 2024
  64. Terry Pratchett Discworld Bundle vs DRM
  65. December’s Defiant Sausage
  66. 2023 Income Sources

2023 84

  1. My Ebook Store Now Offers Gift Cards
  2. November’s Noughtwithstanding Sausage
  3. Penguicon Auction, or: How To Make Me Shut Up
  4. Penguicon fundraiser, featuring Orc-Cased Orcs
  5. Why My Short Fiction Is Exclusively In My Store
  6. New Christmas story: “The Rats’ Man’s Lackey and the Forbidden Tinsel”
  7. Online TLS talk, 16 November 2023
  8. My new “FreeBSD Journal” column has escaped
  9. October’s Ornery Sausage
  10. My Web Store Features
  11. “Apocalypse Moi” Patronizer and Kickstarter copies shipped
  12. Lucas-Adjacent Kickstarters
  13. “Apocalypse Moi” Kickstarter status
  14. “60 Seconds of WIP” now on Apple and Spotify
  15. September’s Succulent Sausage
  16. OpenBSD PF versus FreeBSD PF
  17. Yes, I Know I’m In the AI Scraping Search Engine
  18. A True Story: “The Cat”
  19. Video Score: Me 83, Rats 53650
  20. Proof You Should Not Run My Code: my SNMP agent
  21. “Apocalypse Moi” ebook out!
  22. August’s Aghast Sausage
  23. Finding a way to “Speak the Truth”
  24. Patreon update: I got paid, mostly
  25. Patreon has stopped paying me
  26. “Apocalypse Moi” Kickstarter is live
  27. July’s Jabberwocky Sausage
  28. Enterprise Ebook Licensing
  29. “Apocalypse Moi” Kickstarter pre-launch page up
  30. New FreeBSD Journal column out
  31. Free Shipping at My Print Bookstore
  32. Testing Podcast Setup, RSS Unstable
  33. 60 Seconds of WIP, 7 July 2023
  34. Notes on Amazon Killing Electronic Subscriptions
  35. First BSDCan Operations Team Meeting
  36. June’s Jerryrigged Sausage
  37. New Prohibition Orcs tale: Yellow-Eyed War
  38. 60 Seconds of WIP, 29 June 2023
  39. Rat Pancakes
  40. “Run Your Own Mail Server” technology stack
  41. Sixty Seconds of WIP, 21 June 2023
  42. “Treat The Rats” updated
  43. “New products RSS Feed” on my ebookstore
  44. Tomorrow night: mug.org talk on OpenBSD Filesystems
  45. Organized Freebies
  46. May’s Moderate Sausage
  47. BSDCan 2024 Reorganization
  48. New BSDNow interview
  49. Print Price Increases
  50. April’s Ablated Sausage
  51. ChatGPT versus Facts
  52. Quarterly and Annual Patronizing
  53. I Have A Dream
  54. Ten Years of Penguicon Pop Tarts
  55. Updated Penguicon 2023 schedule and references
  56. OpenBSD Filesystems Talk: Tuesday, 17 April 2023, 7PM EDT
  57. More Stuff In My Ebook Store, and a mega-deal on Absolutely Everything
  58. Penguicon 2023 Schedule
  59. Free Anthology, including Me
  60. Release Day: “Devotion and Corrosion”
  61. April Fool’s Collection
  62. “Devotion and Corrosion” Kickstarter wrap-up
  63. Sponsorship Open: “Run Your Own Mail Server”
  64. “Run Your Own Mail Server” chapter 0
  65. When Will I Open “Run Your Own Mail Server” sponsorships?
  66. Order Books for BSDCan Delivery
  67. Selling Direct and Customer Support
  68. BSDCan 2023 Tutorial: OpenBSD Storage Management
  69. Jan/Feb 2023 Column Out in the FreeBSD Journal
  70. New Short Story: “The Rats’ Man’s Lackey and the Half Gallon of Christmas Miracle”
  71. Comparing Kickstarters
  72. “Devotion and Corrosion” Kickstarter now live
  73. Triple Threat February: Cheap Orcs, Reading, and Kicking
  74. Online Public Reading, 9 Big-Name Writers and Me
  75. Shipping OMF
  76. “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” hardcovers are here
  77. Updates to Print Bookstore and FAQ
  78. The One Lone Audiobook now exclusive on my store
  79. Novel, Story Collection, and In-Print Nonfiction Index Pages
  80. The orc-leather-cased Orcibuses have arrived!
  81. “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” print leaking out
  82. “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” Print Status
  83. 2022 Income Sources
  84. The Terminal Brag Shelf

2022 41

  1. Why “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” is not in Amazon’s Kindle store
  2. “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” ebook leaking out
  3. “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” print layout notes
  4. “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” status
  5. The Spite Bezos sale ends, Filesystems, and my Next Kickstarter
  6. the complete Montague Portal redux, in hardcover
  7. The complete Montague Portal on sale for $5.85 at Amazon
  8. Social Media Updates: Good-Bye Twitter
  9. Mailing List Freebies
  10. Fifty Books. Thirty Years. What Next?
  11. Fediverse Servers, plus mac_portacl on FreeBSD
  12. Why Mastodon/the Fediverse kind of sucks right now
  13. Eight years ago today, my first novel
  14. “Prohibition Orcs” Kickstarter signed paperbacks shipped
  15. Two pieces by me in this month’s FreeBSD Journal
  16. upgrading PHP 7.4 to PHP 8 on FreeBSD
  17. Talk on Rat Operated Vehicles
  18. “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” Print/Ebook Bundle Preorder
  19. Sponsorships, Releases, New Books, and Kickstarters
  20. “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” draft done!
  21. “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” Status Report
  22. Rat Operated Vehicle
  23. I Eat Salmon Ice Cream
  24. Leather Book Covers?
  25. Halfway Through the Orc Kickstarter
  26. Prohibition Orcs Kickstarter now live!
  27. “SSH at Scale” Talk Tonight
  28. Penguicon 2022 Schedule and Books
  29. Talking DNSSEC, 12 April 2022
  30. Kickstarter and Blockchain
  31. Software Recommendations
  32. Yet Another New Book: “Letters to ed(1)”
  33. DYB Auction for Clarion 2020 Students
  34. New Sponsorships Open, and More Crowdfunding
  35. DNSSEC, Badgers, and Orcs, Oh My!
  36. “DNSSEC Mastery 2/e” Auction Winners
  37. Charity Auction: DNSSEC Mastery proof for Black Girls Code
  38. DNSSEC Mastery, second edition, creeping out
  39. New book: “Domesticate Your Badgers”
  40. 2021 Income Sources
  41. The New York Times, featuring: me?

2021 35

  1. Screwing Up, and Recovering
  2. My Bookstore Now Using a CDN
  3. Kickstarter Campaign Results
  4. New Test System
  5. 640% Kickstarter, Sponsorships, and Shipping
  6. “Domesticate Your Badgers” Kickstarter Opens
  7. New time travel short story escaped, new Kickstarter approaching
  8. October 2021’s Bipolar Updates
  9. Halloween Ebook Sale: Immortal Clay
  10. 2021 Soroptimist Auction Results
  11. Auction Last Day
  12. My Inevitable(?) Amazon Tech Ebook Exit
  13. Forthcoming Mastery Book Price Changes
  14. Breaking the Silence
  15. “DNSSEC Mastery, 2nd Edition” Cover Reveal
  16. Auction Against Human Trafficking
  17. “$ git sync murder” is out, so: how many books have I written?
  18. “git sync murder” sponsor & Patronizer gifts now shipping
  19. Total Mastery, 2021 July
  20. Public Online TLS Talk
  21. “DNSSEC Mastery, 2nd Edition” Open for Sponsorships
  22. the Write Stuff bundle, featuring: me!
  23. Sponsorship Notes on “TLS Mastery”
  24. TLS Mastery Release, Sponsor Gifts, and Acknowledgements
  25. My Penguicon 2021 Schedule
  26. “Only Footnotes” Now Available
  27. New Book: Only Footnotes
  28. New podcast interview: Alive After Reading
  29. My first “What is Wrong With You?” Patron Cert
  30. “TLS Mastery” pre-order on my web store
  31. New Montague Portal omnibus, and a free novel
  32. My books on Google Play, for now
  33. Private Patronizer site out of beta
  34. “TLS Mastery” first draft done!
  35. 2020 Income Sources

2020 38

  1. Private Patreon Public Beta
  2. New Montague Portal novel: “Drinking Heavy Water”
  3. More on Print Orders
  4. Direct Print Book Sale
  5. Temporally Shifting Bundles
  6. Last-Minute Public Reading, on Halloween
  7. Patreon Reorganization, January 2021
  8. A Very MWL Christmas
  9. Bundle, and the next Montague Portal novel
  10. Book Sale
  11. Online Jails talk with Q&A, 25 September 2020
  12. Another orc story, and more fiction stuff!
  13. “TLS Mastery” Covers Reveal, with T-shirts and Posters
  14. TLS Mastery updates, August 2020
  15. The Worst that Can Happen to an Author
  16. I’m At a Hacking Con
  17. Sponsorship Headaches
  18. BSDCan 2020 Charity Auction Results
  19. Reviews and Podcasts on “Cash Flow for Creators”
  20. Online SNMP Talk Tomorrow Night
  21. BSDCan 2020 Charity Auction
  22. Podcast interview on SNMP
  23. New book: “Cash Flow for Creators”
  24. My very first audiobook
  25. “git sync murder” status
  26. “TLS Mastery” sponsorships open
  27. The Print Book Trade, and Money
  28. New “Prohibition Orcs” today
  29. My New Print Bookstore
  30. “SNMP Mastery,” April Fool’s, and The Networknomicon
  31. My Asia trip is cancelled
  32. “SNMP Mastery” leaking out
  33. Sponsoring a “git commit murder” sequel
  34. The MWL 2020 Asia Tour
  35. A different sort of interview, on tabletop RPGs
  36. Me, talking SNMP at Semibug: 21 January 2020
  37. “SNMP Mastery” cover reveal
  38. 2019 Income Sources

2019 34

  1. “SNMP Mastery” tech reviewers wanted
  2. Proof I Am a Monster
  3. The Six Prequels to “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails”
  4. Full-Time Writing: Five Years In
  5. Hear Me Read Without Leaving Your Chair
  6. “SNMP Mastery” sponsorships now live
  7. “Sudo Mastery” print sponsor and Patronizer shipments
  8. “Sudo Mastery, 2nd Edition” now out!
  9. Manly McManface: Endgame
  10. “Sudo Mastery” and the new Tilted Windmill Press clothing line
  11. The Impending Demise of “PGP & GPG”
  12. New novel out! “Terrapin Sky Tango,” aka “Butterfly Stomp Waltz 2”
  13. Seattle Gelato Meetup, 1 August 2019
  14. “Sudo Mastery, 2nd Edition” open for tech review
  15. “Sudo Mastery 2nd Edition” cover art reveal
  16. BSDCan 2019 Auction Items, and next Beaks novel
  17. Video of live reading of “FreeBSD Journal” column
  18. My Penguicon 2019 Schedule
  19. FreeBSD Mastery: Jails – Bail Bond Denied Edition
  20. Print Sponsor Gifts Mailed for “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails”
  21. “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” Print Sponsor Gifts Threaten to Topple
  22. Talking Jails at Semibug, 9 April 2019
  23. “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” and a new novella
  24. “Sudo Mastery 2/e” sponsorships available
  25. New sponsorship announcement mailing list
  26. Restore Woocommerce Users from Backup
  27. “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” ebook escaping!
  28. End-of-February Update
  29. “Sudo Mastery, Second Edition” and Cover Art
  30. “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” first draft complete
  31. End-Of-January Update
  32. When To Buy Your Own ISBNs
  33. FreeBSD Journal column
  34. MWL’s 2018 Wrap-Up

2018 42

  1. Cutting My Throat at Last
  2. Auction Winners
  3. Decent Pics of “Relayd & Httpd Mastery” signature
  4. Ugly Pics of AF3e auction signatures
  5. Absolute FreeBSD now shipping!
  6. Developer-signed “Relayd & Httpd Mastery” hardcover
  7. FreeBSD & OpenBSD fundraisers
  8. Committer-signed “Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Ed” auction
  9. AF3e ship date and next FreeBSD talk
  10. Happy #CIDRDay!
  11. talking on CreateSpace-KDP print Migration, 24 September 2018
  12. Pricing Shifts between CreateSpace, IngramSpark, and KDP Print
  13. CreateSpace Shutdown Plan
  14. I must credit Walmart
  15. New podcast interview
  16. Tuesday, 21 August 18: me, on ed(1), at SemiBUG
  17. Bookstore Reading
  18. Burn it down! Burn it all down!
  19. Web Empire Redesign
  20. Writing Business Cashflow
  21. Second Editions versus the Publishing Business
  22. New Patreon rewards for $1 tier
  23. New Interview
  24. New “Immortal Clay” short story
  25. New Patreon video
  26. Book Fair, 23 June 2018
  27. Author Discoverability
  28. “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” Sponsorships, and writing schedule changes
  29. New talks, and the F-bomb
  30. My Penguicon 2018 Schedule
  31. Too Subtle for my Own Good
  32. “Ed Mastery” follow-up
  33. For 1 April: #mwlSecretBook reveal!
  34. On Sponsor Gifts
  35. “SSH Mastery, 2nd ed” in hardcover
  36. speaking at mug.org 10 April 2018
  37. SSH Mastery 2/e out
  38. Sponsoring a Scam
  39. “SSH Mastery 2/e” copyedits back
  40. Podcast Interview with Yours Truly
  41. My ConFusion Schedule
  42. MWL’s 2017 Wrap-Up

2017 44

  1. “SSH Mastery” 2nd ed tech reviewers wanted
  2. The first AF3e preorders
  3. MS Word auto-recovery files and Dictation
  4. “SSH Mastery, 2nd Ed” News, Sponsorships, and Cover
  5. Leveling Up
  6. I have a Patreon now
  7. First draft of “Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd Edition” finished!
  8. New story: Savaged by Systemd
  9. AF3e status, 22 August 2017
  10. BSDCam Trip Report
  11. Contributing to FreeBSD
  12. First-ever interview with me, the novelist
  13. AF3e Status, 17 July 2017
  14. Get My Books Cheap
  15. “Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition” update
  16. BSDCan 2017 Auction Swag
  17. “Relayd and Httpd Mastery,” both the good and the bad
  18. “Relayd and Httpd Mastery” is out!
  19. Conferences and Traveling
  20. Self-Imposed Split Personality
  21. Web Presence Redesign
  22. Experimental Price Cuts
  23. Penguicon 2017 Schedule
  24. on the title of “git commit murder”
  25. New novel: “git commit murder”
  26. “Httpd and Relayd Mastery” off to copyedit
  27. AF3e Auction Winner
  28. “Absolute FreeBSD 3rd ed” Auction ends SOON
  29. “And then the murders began.”
  30. Get your name in “Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition”
  31. Relayd and the Next Tech Book
  32. My face on the wall
  33. At the GP Central Library 11 March 2017
  34. “Hi, I’m jkh and I’m a d**k”
  35. My Form Letter Response
  36. I’ll be at the Troy Public Library
  37. Kansas LinuxFest 2017
  38. As a Nefarious Media Agent…
  39. Sponsorships on “Httpd and Relayd Mastery” available
  40. Relayd Auction Results
  41. 2017 presentation proposals
  42. Tuckerization Auction Non-Bid Comments Here
  43. Get your name in the relayd book
  44. A Christmas Wish (List) Gone Wrong

2016 59

  1. MWL’s 2016 wrap-up
  2. Reddit advertising of “PAM Mastery”
  3. Reviews and Murder
  4. “PAM is Un-American” talk now online
  5. The Apocalypse, on Sale
  6. On the Election
  7. Ohio LinuxFest 2016 wrap-up
  8. Challenge bomb
  9. “PAM Mastery” print sponsor books
  10. My 3-day challenge for Oct 2016
  11. Unlicensed Book Translations
  12. Next Tech Book
  13. “PAM Mastery” out!
  14. The semibug PAM talk live tweet
  15. “PAM Mastery” ebook now out
  16. This year’s anemic output
  17. “PAM Mastery” print layout done
  18. New novel, and a new novel bundle
  19. See Me in 2016
  20. Cover reveal for “PAM Mastery”
  21. Wherein the past haunts me, but in a good way
  22. I’ll be at Rust City Book Con
  23. Scottsdale AZ redux
  24. “PAM Mastery” tech reviewers wanted
  25. My BSDCan “OpenPAM & BSD” talk
  26. Why I refuse to join Kindle Unlimited
  27. FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS (Version canadienne)
  28. Getting Ahead of Blackmail
  29. Two new stories and a novella
  30. Reality check for “PAM Mastery.”
  31. BSDCan Intro Session Volunteers Wanted
  32. My FreeBSD story
  33. Books for “FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS” print sponsors
  34. “FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS” now available!
  35. Penguicon 2016 Lucas Track Schedule
  36. “FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS” sponsor check
  37. Book Bundles
  38. Interview with me at BSDNow
  39. Get the “Immortal Clay” sequel: Kipuka Blues
  40. “FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS” sponsorships ending soon
  41. Free short story: “Butterfly Stomp”
  42. First review of “FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems”
  43. FreeBSD and pam_listfile
  44. Sponsoring “PAM Mastery”
  45. I just spammed my customers. Mea culpa.
  46. “FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS” in tech review
  47. New novel in print and ebook: Butterfly Stomp Waltz
  48. February 2016 status and sponsorship questions
  49. next talk: “FreeBSD Filesystem Fun” at March semibug
  50. Winter Arrivals
  51. “FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS” Table of Contents
  52. Sponsorships and Hot Water
  53. Sponsorships for “FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS”
  54. FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems now escaping
  55. The Penguicon Lucas Tech Track
  56. September’s Publishing Workshop
  57. Patronage without Patreon
  58. New review on “Tarsnap Mastery”
  59. randi vs xmj

2015 50

  1. “FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems” disclaimer
  2. My SSH talk now on YouTube
  3. “FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems” early draft available!
  4. Inaugural SemiBUG meeting notes
  5. first semibug.org meeting next Tuesday
  6. Detroit-area BSD user group, take 2
  7. freebsd-update: “/usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory”
  8. 50% TWP titles (and more) at Kobo.com
  9. New “FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS” review
  10. SSH talk, 10 November 2015
  11. September 2015 updates
  12. Reviews and Interviews
  13. Two new stories
  14. On “unpleasant truths” in tech books
  15. Sysadmin Appreciation Day sale!
  16. Me at LivBSD on ZFS
  17. Open dinner in Scottsdale, AZ, 17 July 2015
  18. June 2015 Updates
  19. YouTube review on “Networking For Systems Administrators”
  20. I will have books at BSDCan
  21. FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS ebook done
  22. FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS cover
  23. Tarsnap talk on-line
  24. European Union VAT and my bookstore
  25. Free novella at Amazon
  26. WordPress versus FreeBSD
  27. Web site rearrangement
  28. short story: Wednesday’s Seagulls
  29. Immortal Clay
  30. Ignore the next couple of posts
  31. Tarsnap talk at mug.org, 12 May 2015
  32. FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS on pre-order
  33. FreeBSD and beadm
  34. Sunday Morning Linux Review on “Tarsnap Mastery”
  35. March 2015 updates
  36. “Forever Falls” novella print and ebook
  37. “Tarsnap Mastery” print out!
  38. “Tarsnap Mastery” ebook out
  39. SMLR on N4SA
  40. BSDCan proposals and rejections
  41. n4sa Print Sneaking Out
  42. FMSE Chapter 10 available for free
  43. Testing Reddit Advertising for Nonfiction
  44. “Networking for Systems Administrators” on Kindle
  45. Word doc placed in Indesign gets numbered headings
  46. “Tarsnap Mastery” pre-pub reviewers wanted
  47. FreeBSD Jail Management Tools
  48. Jan 2015 Status & Next Projects
  49. Two “FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials” reviews
  50. BSDCan 2015 Call for Papers Ending Soon

2014 66

  1. Volunteering Early to Tech Review
  2. BSDNow Interview now live
  3. Sudo talk now on YouTube
  4. SMLR on “FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials”
  5. Next tech book: Tarsnap Mastery
  6. “Networking for System Administrators” – Tech reviewers wanted
  7. “FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials” print available!
  8. FreeBSD fetch(1) broken on SSL links?
  9. FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials at printer
  10. FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials ebook released
  11. Book Review: Book of PF, 3rd Edition
  12. Initial reactions to “Immortal Clay”
  13. Sudo talk at mug.org, 9 Dec 2014
  14. And today, on Audible…
  15. “FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials” sent to copyedit
  16. FreeBSD “Working copy ‘/usr/src’ locked.”
  17. New novel out: “Immortal Clay”
  18. Next Project: “Networking for Sysadmins”
  19. FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials cover
  20. Revoked and Replaced OpenPGP Key
  21. “Storage Essentials” first draft complete!
  22. I’m changing careers
  23. Shuffling Partitions on FreeBSD
  24. Phabricator on FreeBSD installation notes
  25. New autobiography chapter: The Thumbs
  26. FreeBSD ZFS snapshots with zfstools
  27. a survey of FreeBSD ZFS snapshot automation tools
  28. Google Play notes
  29. FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials – discount pre-pub available
  30. Installing and Using Tarsnap for Fun and Profit
  31. Cloning a FreeBSD/ZFS Machine with ‘zfs send’
  32. mfiutil on FreeBSD
  33. FreeBSD Disk Partitioning
  34. next book(s): FreeBSD storage
  35. OpenBSD and Google Compute Engine
  36. virtio NIC on OpenBSD 5.5-current
  37. Live webcast on O’Reilly
  38. LibreSSL at BSDCan
  39. BSDCan keynote
  40. FreeBSD devsummit notes: ports & packages
  41. FreeBSD devsummit virtualization session
  42. FreeBSD 11 feature goals
  43. Next week: BSDCan, with goats
  44. My NSP ebooks, 50% off
  45. Penguicon 2014 Schedule
  46. Book Review: “Applied Network Security Monitoring”
  47. The Con is a Lie
  48. Announcing DetroitBSDCon: May 14-17 2014
  49. BSDCan sold to Oracle?
  50. DNSSEC-verified SSL Certificates, the Standard Way
  51. Mailing Lists, featuring: me!
  52. NYCBSDCon 2014 Video, and 2014 appearances
  53. Running Ancient Rsync
  54. Trying poo-DRE-eh — uh, poudriere
  55. Installing FreeBSD 10 to ZFS with a script
  56. ifup-local on bridge members on CentOS
  57. New reviews
  58. 2013 Failures and 2014 Goals
  59. NYCBSDCon ebook sale
  60. Crazed Ferrets in a Berkeley Shower – 2014 edition
  61. Why I don’t have ads here
  62. Jan 2014 Java update broke me
  63. Ansible and PF, plus NTP
  64. Wanted: a VAX
  65. The Desktop of Doom
  66. Jailing FreeBSD 4 on FreeBSD 10

2013 82

  1. Amazon gets it wrong
  2. Sudo Mastery and DNSSEC Mastery now at OpenBSD bookstore
  3. On asking me to write for you
  4. FreeBSD authentication against Samba 4 LDAP
  5. FreeBSD-update seems to hang on 10.0-BETA2
  6. Wanted: BSDCan Volunteers
  7. Moving mailboxes from Courier/Maildir to DirectAdmin/dovecot/Maildir
  8. mug.org OpenBSD talk on-line
  9. Tonight, at mug.org
  10. Sudo Mastery print now at Amazon
  11. BSDNow interview now live
  12. Cisco supports CARP? Ha ha ha hahaha…
  13. OpenBSD talk at Farmington Community Library 12 November 2013
  14. BSDNow.tv, featuring… me!
  15. FreeBSD Jails and ntpd
  16. Happy Halloween!
  17. “Sudo Mastery” print + ebook bundle via Amazon
  18. “Sudo Mastery” ebook widely available, and acknowledgements
  19. checking group membership in Ansible templates
  20. Sudo Mastery off to copyeditor
  21. EuroBSDCon, and Sudo Mastery
  22. “Sudo Mastery” tech reviewers wanted
  23. First draft of “Sudo Mastery” complete
  24. I’m not writing an Ansible book…
  25. Cross-platform OpenSSH server management with Ansible
  26. managing sshd with Ansible
  27. Command-Line FreeBSD Configuration: sysrc
  28. Wanted: interesting sudoers
  29. Book Review: The Practice of Network Security Monitoring
  30. “DNSSec in 55 Minutes” on YouTube
  31. tomorrow’s DNSSEC talk
  32. next tech book: Sudo Mastery
  33. live DNSSEC talk
  34. FreeBSD pkgng vs custom ports
  35. convert FreeBSD to pkgng with Ansible
  36. I sound like a real dork: BSDTalk 228
  37. “Absolute OpenBSD” auction photographs
  38. “DNSSEC Mastery” business numbers
  39. Two more “Absolute OpenBSD 2/e” reviews
  40. Visiting an OpenBSD hackathon.
  41. Two “Absolute OpenBSD” reviews
  42. FreeBSD-update vs bind99-base
  43. DNSSEC Mastery #1 best-seller…
  44. The next FreeBSD book?
  45. DNSSEC Mastery print now on Amazon
  46. Books at BSDCan
  47. First “DNSSEC Mastery” reviews
  48. “Absolute OpenBSD” Kindle edition: problems and on sale
  49. Basic Ansible Playbooks
  50. iptables and ipsets
  51. Penguicon Schedule
  52. At Penguicon this weekend
  53. “Absolute OpenBSD” physically exists
  54. “DNSSEC Mastery” now complete, ebook version available!
  55. “Absolute OpenBSD” auction winner
  56. “Absolute OpenBSD” auction clears $1000
  57. “Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd edition” ebook download available
  58. First barrier breached
  59. First copy of “Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd ed” now on auction
  60. DNSSEC Mastery release
  61. Misc: Books, and April Fool’s
  62. Upcoming Appearances
  63. LeanPub experiences, and my own ebook store
  64. “DNSSEC Mastery” status, dates, and acknowledgements
  65. Absolute OpenBSD 2/e preorders from OpenBSD.org
  66. Diagnosing “+Limiting icmp unreach response from…” with tcpdump
  67. Tech Book Contracts
  68. Some “Absolute OpenBSD 2/e” dates
  69. First review of “Absolute OpenBSD 2e”
  70. Any Firefox add-on people out there?
  71. Absolute OpenBSD blurbs
  72. DNSSEC Tech Reviewers Wanted
  73. Fan Art
  74. my OpenSSH AuthorizedKeysCommand script
  75. Book status, 9 Feb 2013, and the Missing Contest Winner
  76. “DNSSec Mastery” in-progress version available
  77. Any interest in early drafts?
  78. Configuration Automation with RANCID
  79. Absolute OpenBSD 2/e Haiku Contest Winners & status
  80. DNSSec and DLV on current BIND
  81. Conference Submissions & BSDCan 2013
  82. 2013 Projects and 2012 Errata

2012 57

  1. OpenBSD ruleset tracing
  2. TWP sponsoring BSDCan 2013
  3. Absolute OpenBSD pre-orders now available
  4. Next Nonfiction Book
  5. 1st draft of Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Ed. complete
  6. Absolute OpenBSD 2nd Edition status, 15 November 2012
  7. Easy Security Project: standalone ssh-ldap-helper
  8. Amazon Author Rank vs Writers
  9. Get Your Haiku Published in the new “Absolute OpenBSD”
  10. Log Only sudo Failures
  11. On Bogus Book Reviews
  12. Absolute OpenBSD status, 9 Sep 2012
  13. OpenBSD read-only ports tree with restrictive sudo
  14. Technology versus Democracy
  15. FreeBSD: portmaster with pkgng
  16. BSDTalk #218, featuring… Me!
  17. FreeBSD Ports Annoyance
  18. Writing New Editions
  19. Cisco radius auth for users and enable
  20. I’m in BSD Magazine
  21. Keeping Friends
  22. Splitting blog?
  23. Floating business ideas past my readers
  24. New review of “SSH Mastery”
  25. Truth versus Art
  26. Death of a Web Server
  27. 50% off sale on my No Starch ebooks through O’Reilly, 4th May only
  28. Debugging RANCID
  29. And now for something completely different…
  30. Absolute OpenBSD reviewers
  31. Configuring OpenBSD to use RADIUS auth
  32. The Purpose of Tech Books
  33. February “SSH Mastery” sales numbers and expenses
  34. SSH course at BSDCan 2012
  35. Small server IPv4/IPv6 pf.conf
  36. Book Promotion Methods and Effectiveness
  37. SolusVM KVM offline migration with shared storage
  38. SSH Mastery print now on Amazon
  39. SSH Mastery Print Here
  40. Remote Web Browsing via OpenSSH and PuTTY
  41. Print pre-order for “SSH Mastery” now available
  42. “SSH Mastery” print status
  43. January “SSH Mastery” sales, by the numbers
  44. Installing WHMCS on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE
  45. New “SSH Mastery” review posted
  46. Basic DNSSEC with BIND 9.9
  47. “SSH Mastery” now #1 on Smashwords
  48. New review of SSH Mastery, and print pre-order status
  49. first long-form review of “Vicious Redemption”
  50. SSH Mastery now #2 best-seller on Smashwords
  51. SSH Mastery Review from Peter Hansteen
  52. SSH Mastery Round-Up
  53. SSH Mastery available at Smashwords
  54. SSH Mastery ebook uploaded to Amazon and B&N
  55. Consistency in Writing
  56. New fiction collection: “Vicious Redemption”
  57. enable DNSSec resolution on BIND 9.8.1

2011 90

  1. SSH Mastery Cover Rough
  2. SSH Mastery Cover Photo
  3. Dec 2011 Updates
  4. sudo auth via ssh-agent
  5. Moving Static Sites from Apache to nginx
  6. Why I Give Books Away
  7. mirroring FreeBSD-9 disks with GPT
  8. Recovering from Failing to Mirror Disks on FreeBSD 9.0-RC2
  9. notes from my FreeBSD and Nagios upgrade
  10. FreeBSD 9 PF macro & table changes
  11. Unlicensed Book Downloads and the Writer
  12. Installing a DragonFly BSD Jail
  13. Upgrading DragonFly BSD
  14. Updates, October 2011
  15. sudo environment purging and OpenSSH
  16. DragonFly BSD Introduction
  17. Free Short Stories
  18. Replicating Routerboards
  19. Book updates, August 2011
  20. Colin Harvey, RIP
  21. ISC dhcpd and MAC prefixes
  22. How to Lose your Job with SSH, part 2
  23. Practical Packet Analysis, 2nd Edition
  24. How to Lose your Job with SSH, part 1
  25. creating FreeNAS 8 iSCSI target
  26. New PuTTY released
  27. SSH Book Title
  28. Stalk me on Google Plus
  29. FreeNAS 8.0 and SNMP
  30. Full up on OpenSSH reviewers
  31. add PF to FreeNAS 8
  32. FreeNAS 8 on Intel SS4200-E
  33. OpenSSH community reviewers wanted
  34. How Community Tech Review Works
  35. desktop OpenBSD pf.conf
  36. SSHv1 and PuTTY
  37. Summer 2011 nonfiction project: OpenSSH
  38. my .cwmrc
  39. IP Tables and VoIP
  40. OpenBSD, Firefox, and Flash
  41. FreeBSD iSCSI panic
  42. BSDCan 2011
  43. Populating OpenSSH chroot on OpenBSD
  44. Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition
  45. new package system coming for FreeBSD
  46. Agents for Tech Authors
  47. BSDCan this week
  48. OpenSSH: requiring keys, but allow passwords from some locations
  49. “Network Flow Analysis” in Japanese
  50. NFSv4 and UIDs on OpenSolaris and Ubuntu
  51. Book Giveaway Contest
  52. Attending a Publishing Workshop
  53. awk and access.log
  54. mod_security2 and referer spam returns
  55. WordPress LDAP auth on Ubuntu
  56. new personal Web site
  57. Permalinks Updated
  58. New FreeBSD Installer test and walkthrough
  59. [emerg] (13)Permission denied: couldn’t grab the accept mutex
  60. Confession
  61. FreeBSD Project Reorganization
  62. New review of Absolute FreeBSD
  63. Dealing with Negative Reviews
  64. Nonfiction Tuckerization Auctions?
  65. Roundcube/pgsql on FreeBSD
  66. experiments in publishing
  67. Buy My Books for Japanese Disaster Relief
  68. short story on Kindle
  69. Wherein I learn about initrd
  70. pxelinux.cfg/* versus RCS
  71. blather versus undeadly.org
  72. diskless ubuntu serial console
  73. my OpenBSD story
  74. DNS DDos of the Day
  75. publishers versus self-publishing
  76. NYCBSDCon Video
  77. OpenLDAP search filters
  78. Fail Quickly
  79. Public Service Announcement on Painting Old Brick
  80. Unbound DNS Server
  81. Adding IPv6 to a FreeBSD Mail/Web Server
  82. tracking latency, loss, and jitter with SmokePing
  83. Microsoft’s BSD support
  84. upgrading to OpenBSD-current, the stupid way
  85. mod_security2 case sensitive?
  86. two more NFA reviews
  87. identifying probable intrusion vectors with flow data
  88. dating an intrusion with flow data
  89. mod_security rule upgrades and logging
  90. next tech book outline

2010 65

  1. I have achieved pole position
  2. Blowing up the Holidays
  3. The OpenBSD IPSec kerfuffle
  4. designing a tech book
  5. The Wikileaks/BSD connection
  6. writing tech books: write what you don’t know
  7. Another information channel: Twitter
  8. TechChannel interview published
  9. RANCID, Mikrotik, and SSH
  10. Ubuntu server 10.04 LTS diskless filesystem
  11. “Page Cannot Be Displayed” and Internet Explorer
  12. Firewalling diskless Ubuntu
  13. another brush with glory
  14. I will be at BSDCan
  15. mod_security on FreeBSD
  16. Things I Learned at NYCBSDCon, day 2
  17. Things I Learned at NYCBSDCon, Day 1
  18. NYCBSDCon is at our throats
  19. fixing ESXi “failed with error N7Vmacore15SystemExceptionE”
  20. recommendations for Web site update?
  21. inspiration and winning awards
  22. asking me for opinions on your writing
  23. nested pf.conf macros
  24. process management with CARP/HAST failover
  25. price points in the kindle/paper war
  26. More NFA reviews…
  27. pfSense experiences
  28. A writer’s view on the OOo/LibreOffice split
  29. opennebula with one iscsi target per VM
  30. forthcoming video interview
  31. Network collisions running hosts under KVM
  32. Short story by yours truly published
  33. debugging iSCSI
  34. The unexpected risks of ebooks
  35. Finding a SIP DoS attack via flow analysis
  36. Richard Beijtlich on NFA
  37. Automated CARP/HAST Failover
  38. Proposal accepted for NYCBSDCon
  39. part 2 of interview…
  40. New podcast interview on NFA
  41. CARP and devd on FreeBSD
  42. HAST and ZFS
  43. iSCSI boot FreeBSD?
  44. Uninstalling Windows 7 Games, with Prejudice
  45. first two reviews of Network Flow Analysis
  46. my fourth Cacti template
  47. Not Interesting
  48. review copies sent out, NFA a best-seller
  49. Can’t give the danged books away…
  50. rancid and cvsweb
  51. Books have arrived!
  52. Cisco virtual bridge interfaces
  53. Free (for some value of free) Books
  54. Request Tracker serialized workflow
  55. apache22 LDAP auth
  56. Sample Chapter of NFA available!
  57. New fiction sale
  58. OpenSolaris iSCSI ZFS COMSTAR target, FreeBSD initiator
  59. tying ubuntu 10.04 LDAP to sudo and SSH
  60. FreeBSD/amd64-current virtual kernel
  61. I will have books to give away
  62. add LDAP logins to Ubuntu 10.04
  63. Ubuntu is really annoying me
  64. new RouterBOARD 750
  65. Hello