Blogs
Migrating from WordPress to Ghost
Documenting the process and decisions behind moving from self-hosted WordPress to cloud-hosted Ghost. Also comparing Ghost and Eleventy.
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Should I switch to a static site generator?
Thinking about the switch between WordPress and the Eleventy static site generator after 23 years of blogging.
Technology
Becoming Anti-social
This isn't about becoming anti-social in the traditional sense, but more anti-social media. Asocial would be a more accurate term. A few years back I made a decision to disconnect from most social media platforms. If you wanted to get in touch with me or know what I
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18 Years of Blogging
This blog has been alive in some form since 2002. As you can imagine a lot has changed in 18 years. The blog has moved physically from servers under desks, servers in closets, to finally virtual machines in the cloud. Even those VMs have changed AWS instance sizes and Ubuntu
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All Things Open 2018
Last week I attended the All Things Open conference in Raleigh. This is a conference dedicated to Open Source Software, which is very different from the usual vendor led conferences I attend. It was also unusual to commute to a conference in the morning and then back home at night.
Media
Funding Creative Ventures (Sword & Laser)
I'm torn on how we do funding these days for all the media I love to consume. I read a lot of science fiction and fantasy. The Sword & Laser show and podcast has been a true life saver. They're always curating a list of awesome
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CYB3RCRIM3 Reading
Call me crazy, but I really love reading legal analysis at CYB3RCRIM3. I discovered the site via an OPML file passed to me by a friend in the security industry. Thanks Devon! I can see how the walls of text might not be appealing, but the material is great. Legal
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Tech Weekend - Barley
I realized I’ve been seriously neglecting my blog. Mike Rundle (@flyosity) posted a quick link to Barley showing they had Word Press support. I watched the video and was pretty impressed. WYSIWYG editing for a blog. I just GO to the site and can start typing into the web
Gallery Upgrade
Just upgraded my Gallery to 2.2. The feature I've been looking forward to in this version is autorotation of images based on EXIF orientation data. When I tilt the camera to take a vertical pic the camera knows and writes this to the .jpg file. Gallery then
SSL and Certs
I spent most of today learning about certs and CAs. Wikipedia helped out a bit here. I just woke up this morning and said to myself.. "Man, I wonder how certs work. I used to know, or thought I understood, but I just don't get it anymore&
Comments
I lately got BLASTED by a bunch of bots posting comments about Cialis and Viagra. Apparently they scanned the contents of this site and assumed I would be a good candidate for penis pills. Fucking comment bots. I think I'm going to password protect the comments somehow. Any
Posting for fun
Someone told me I needed to post sometjhing to my website. Here's a little update then. Things are going. Work is good, but busy. Life is good. Things aren't so bad. I enjoy not being a poor starving college kid. Having enough money to buy food