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2026 10

  1. watchOS 27 sucks so far
  2. pulse n pause
  3. just reiterating
  4. Zola 0.23 and Tera 2
  5. ⤭ SVIXSEC-2026-0001: Svix SSRF bypass
  6. cool companies don't invalidate links
  7. trying out aerospace, a macos window manager
  8. what makes programming great?
  9. ⤭ Enabling ECS Events with Terraform
  10. Some Good Stuff in 2025

2025 12

  1. ⤭ Improving JavaScript Webhook Transformations
  2. ⤭ Row Level Security: Defense in Depth
  3. ⤭ Getting Started with Rust and ClickHouse
  4. COVID-19 Update
  5. Cooking is better than computers
  6. More words about Enphase
  7. Here comes the sun!
  8. No More Categories
  9. Something New
  10. New Keyboard
  11. 2025 02 baby plus plus
  12. Some Good Stuff in 2024

2024 9

  1. Life Updates, 2024
  2. Firefox userChrome Update
  3. Zola 0.19.0; RSS is back
  4. Oh, the humanity
  5. 2024 GPG Key Update
  6. One of my favorite Ruby snippets
  7. Apple Vision Pro Demo Thoughts
  8. 2023 Game Reviews
  9. January 2024 Editor Update

2023 7

  1. Changing Servers
  2. Vaccinated (again)
  3. Too many social media!
  4. Version 6
  5. On “enshittification” and the future of knowledge
  6. Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood
  7. Mastodon Move (Again)

2022 10

  1. New Style
  2. Mastodon Move
  3. What's Next?
  4. SSH MITM at Best Western
  5. ⤭ Migrating Terabytes Of Data From MySQL To Cassandra With No Downtime
  6. Let's Talk About Elastomeric Masks!
  7. Reflecting on Photography Gear; Leaving Micro Four Thirds
  8. 2022 GPG Key Transition
  9. COVID-19 Finally Hits at Home
  10. The Long-Overdue Baby Gear Post

2021 6

  1. New Chair!
  2. CDPH Digital Vaccine Record
  3. More ModeRNA: Vaccinated (part 2)
  4. What's on TV (May 1, 2021)
  5. Vaccinated (part 1)
  6. Surprising behavior in GNU tar

2020 17

  1. I miss working from the office
  2. Summertime California Sky
  3. A Son!
  4. UC Botanical Garden
  5. It's like being Slashdotted, but it's not 2002 any more
  6. Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad
  7. Trackballs
  8. 2<sup>5</sup>
  9. 2020 MacBook Air Impressions
  10. Flexbox Rocks
  11. Trees in the Park
  12. Life Updates
  13. systemd
  14. New Car
  15. Austin, TX
  16. Surprising Change in Python 3.7.6
  17. Twenty-Teens in Review

2019 14

  1. Dmv
  2. Unicode via Alfred
  3. On the Decline of Zipcar
  4. Crime Happened
  5. Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
  6. Dark Mode
  7. Ode to a Pager
  8. Ditching Gmail After 15 Years
  9. GPG Key Transition
  10. Wildflowers
  11. Vim Setup: 2019
  12. Site Updates
  13. Firefox Setup: 2019
  14. 2019 iMac First Impressions

2018 3

  1. Life Update: Moved
  2. Mastodon
  3. Election Spam, 2018 ed., Volume 1

2017 2

  1. Amusing Siri Date Localization Bug
  2. Gsuite Phishing?

2016 3

  1. Election Spam, 2016 ed., The Final Countdown
  2. Election Ads, 2016 ed., Part 1
  3. Serialization Format Performance

2015 7

  1. 2015 Election Ads - Update
  2. 2015 Election Ads
  3. Pebble Time Steel Review
  4. My Honeymoon!
  5. How do I email?
  6. Beating the Compiler
  7. "DevOps" is a dumb word

2014 9

  1. some old hardware
  2. iPhone 6
  3. Thoughts on the Moves Privacy Policy
  4. TeX is Huge
  5. Alfred + dc
  6. Interesting SSL Issue
  7. Pebble Steel First Impressions
  8. I Got Sick
  9. New Site, Again

2013 5

  1. A Rant on Redis
  2. Serious question about urban planning policy
  3. BART strike remarks
  4. GPG (2013 Update)
  5. Changes

2012 6

  1. <3 sed
  2. Link: PHP sucks
  3. Debt Free Since 2012
  4. My Storage Problem
  5. 60,000 scrobbles
  6. Merry 2012

2011 9

  1. Kindle vs. Kindle
  2. TouchPad!
  3. Rawr, Lion
  4. n+1 years
  5. *nix Tip of the Day: Unix Time
  6. sietchtabr reboot
  7. Linux Tip of the Day: SystemTap
  8. A word on dreams
  9. Firefox 4 and Vimperator 3

2010 13

  1. *nix Tip of the Day: Waiting in Scripts
  2. What I Want: The Moonbat List
  3. Github
  4. Afni - Scam?
  5. An iPad in San Francisco
  6. Graduated
  7. Ipad
  8. wamupd-0.1.2
  9. dnsextd, TCP, and IPv6
  10. wamupd-0.1.1
  11. Dynamic DNS: Part Two
  12. iPad Reactions
  13. SpamAssassin 2010 Bug

2009 29

  1. Job Search: Complete
  2. *nix Tip of the Day: Dynamic DNS
  3. Real Life Update
  4. New Machine
  5. *nix Tip of the Day: VMS
  6. Redesign!
  7. Trust, Government and Health Care
  8. Newport Folk Festival
  9. Recipe to Crash a Kindle
  10. WordPress 2.8.1
  11. Random Thought
  12. One To Go
  13. New GPG Key
  14. Code
  15. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
  16. Backgrounds
  17. *nix Tip of the Day: vim modelines
  18. awesome window manager
  19. Summer Employment
  20. Minus
  21. WordPress 2.7.1
  22. Fishbots
  23. A Beautiful Day To Be Outside
  24. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
  25. Back at Mudd
  26. Air Travel
  27. Long Day
  28. OS X Tip of the Day: Twitterific and QuickSilver
  29. New Site, Yet Again

2008 32

  1. Site Renovations
  2. Another Meme
  3. On Teaching and Value
  4. It's a meme!
  5. Fall River
  6. *nix Tip of the $TIME_PERIOD: mutt
  7. Website Stuff
  8. Newport Jazz Festival 2008
  9. Status
  10. iPhone 3G: Real-World Use
  11. iPhone 3G: Unboxing and First Impressions
  12. iPhone 3G: Activation
  13. iPhone 3G: The Purchasing Process
  14. iPhone 3G Acquired
  15. (end primaries)
  16. Firefox 3
  17. *nix Tip of the Day: sudo
  18. Debian OpenSSL
  19. *nix Tip of the Day: tee
  20. *nix Tip of the Day: rxvt-unicode and terminfo
  21. *nix Tip of the Day: SSH SOCKS Proxying
  22. *nix Tip of the Day: SSH Agent Forwarding
  23. *nix Tip of the Day: SSH Private/Public Keys
  24. New Bike
  25. So, apparently this is a meme
  26. Headphones
  27. A brief thought on the new Microsoft "Interoperability" documents
  28. New Release of Compiz
  29. Social psychology taken to a new level?
  30. Randall Munroe says it better than I can
  31. In Claremont, Again: Musings
  32. Iowa

2007 12

  1. Almost Done!
  2. Back in California
  3. Woah! I still exist!
  4. Remember How I Said That This Blog Would Have Politics?
  5. Ah, Collegiate Internet
  6. My Geek Code
  7. Crazy weather...
  8. Freedom! (almost)
  9. My Baby Taylor
  10. Another day, another dollar
  11. Beryl 0.1999.1, and Other News of Note
  12. Hello

2005 2

  1. Geek Code
  2. "Hacking" Attempts

2004 7

  1. Mozilla Firefox
  2. EULA Happy!
  3. Roguelazer.com 1.0 Released
  4. Main Site
  5. Linux
  6. Hi!
  7. New Computer

Undated 1

  1. 📁 aerospace.workflow