Recent Posts

• Track redirects with curl
  2019-10-22T13:25:50-04:00
  I made a bash alias that takes a URL as an arguement and runs it through curl resuting in the Headers from each redirect, the final URL, and the number of redirects printed to the console.
• The thing about computers
  2019-09-21T13:40:51-04:00
  Brent Simmons talks about what made computing so compelling and what we might be losing.
• Dead Cells might be a perfect game
  2019-09-20T10:23:59-04:00
  Dead Cells is an incredible single-player fighting platformer (not sure the proper term for it).
• 0.14
  2019-07-30T10:31:07-0400
  I desperately miss macOS but the Apple laptop hardware has atrophied to such a degree that the software alone isn't worth it.
• Solving busybox crond hanging on Alpine Linux boot
  2019-05-05T14:13:02-0400
  How busybox crond hanging at startup sent me down a rabbit hole where I learned about entropy and Linux.
• Introducing Cycle
  2019-04-05T23:05:17-0400
  Cycle is a half-baked static site-generator that I wrote to publish this here interweb page. Cycle is not really ready for anyone else to use but me at this point. However I wanted to outline my rationale for the various design decisions that inform how Cycle works today.
• Ajax and Rails
  2019-01-28T11:25:49-05:00
  This is just a short post to save a few links and document that "Server Javascript Responses" in Rails are still useful in 2018/19.
• Blog rewrite
  2018-11-20T23:01:04-05:00
  I haven't posted here recently. That's largely because I did the classic "Time to rewrite the blog, I'll post when it's done" thing. Well it's not done, but I messed up by not sharing my thought process and reasoning for the re-write. So, I'm trying to rectify that now with some scant and scattered sentences.
• Medium isn't a permanent fixture on the Internet
  2018-05-21T11:49:15-04:00
  If you're writing on the Internet and you aren't hosting (owning) your content you're work will disappear; it's just a matter of time.
• Hosting assets via Github Pages
  2018-05-11T15:41:35-04:00
  Screenshots in README.mds are really helpful to quickly demonstrate what your open source project does. Hosting those can be surprisingly difficult.