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I'm fundamentally a minimalist at heart. This carries through in my programming, aka coding. What's the simplest way to develop this code? I aim for the minimum dependencies in every project. I investigate which modules,…

This blog is written/created with Publii. It's an open source, static content management system which is point and click easy to use. After years of Jekyll and Wordpress, migrating to something easy made sense for…

I'm working on a research project where we're parsing 500-750GB of log data per day. Initially, the hack was to use fish shell scripts to automate grep, awk, etc. Quickly, we realized the entire idea…

After whining about "useless google takeout", I decided to do something about it. Initially, I contacted Wordpress to see if they were planning to do anything and/or if they already had a plugin or script.

Many, many years ago I owned and ran asciifun.com. Mostly it was created as a way to paste figlet output into code comments and other random stupidity happening on irc networks. Back in 1999, this…

Recently, I've been using various APIs from the bash shell. It's an exercise in response to, "can it be done?" There is no other point. These are loosely tested and probably insecure in various ways.

Around a month ago, I left Cloudflare and went back to HTTP-only sites. Not HTTPS. I did it for my own reasons, mostly performance-related. This is a long, somewhat technical post on my musings about…

Interesting, http://danluu.com/input-lag/ I sometimes long for the performance of the BeBox. My memory is that it was incredibly fast and responsive no matter what you asked it to do. Of course, as Dan says, memory…

On 6 October, 2016 I gave the following keynote speech at the MassTLC D3: Data, Development, & Drive Software Dev Conference. The full video is available on my YouTube channel. Good afternoon. My name is…

Over the past year I've been asked by investors and startups on what to do about the dark web. Crime is rampant. The increasing variety of dark web technologies is confusing. And there is much hyperbole about…