For me, food was always an afterthought. "Ugh. Hungry again. I'll solve that and get back to what I was doing." Then I read this book from the 70s by a Japanese farmer who's like the grandfather of permaculture. I wish I could have met him. His...
July 2024 Select the Plot I chose a 10x14 full-sun patch of lawn next to the back porch. I deployed a heavy tarp to begin smothering the grass. HOA architectural review committee approved the change Soil Testing: Take soil samples and send them...
I stopped using Google Calendar as a primary calendar a few years ago, but I still had a lot of old events in there far into the future. I must have imported the lunar cycle at some point because most of them are named like "New moon" or "Full moon …
Storage is cheap, but it's not free and 4K home movies use a lot of storage. There's no easy way to find and delete a particular file or type of file in Google Photos, and there's no way to bulk delete with a tool or even the API. Here's a …
Optimizing for determinism in virtual machines. This approach can be used to vend the same virtual machine image version in many formats e.g. VHD for Azure, Stack, and Hyper-V; OVA for VMware, VirtualBox; QCOW2 for KVM, and of course RAW. Table...
A single rogue npm module, Ruby gem, PyPi module, or ill-fated cURL command could expose you (and your employer) to extreme risk. Table of contents: Is this you? The Problem A Solution Do it Yourself Shortcuts Enable Privileges Disable Privileges...
In short, a programmable cloud delivery network (CDN) aka front-end like Fly.io is an API by which to configure the logical edge of an application stack. Fly.io also provides an intuitive web UI which simplifies common administrative operations....
CloudFlare provides a performant recursive nameserver along with a promise to never surveil their users. Their Linux quickstart involves modifying the standard C library's resolver (i.e. /etc/resolv.conf) which is a terrible idea if you are using...
I first started using @KeybaseIO a few years ago to link together my social accounts. This creates a web of accounts which is dramatically more difficult to impersonate than any single account. So, it's an exercise in impeding identity theft. A...