Recent Posts

• 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.
• Pinboard popular page in Emacs
  2018-04-26T23:12:34-04:00
  A quick look at how I made an Ivy extension that displays the links from the pinboard.in popular page
• Emacs lite
  2018-04-19T10:42:41-04:00
  A small, friendly starting point for Emacs.
• Hello micro.blog
  2018-02-01T16:45:31-05:00
  Micro.blog is simply a layer on top of existing RSS/JSON feeds; its simplicity echoes the simplicity of podcasting.
• Apple on batteries and performance
  2017-12-28T18:11:14-05:00
  Apple released a statement on the battery and performance issues.