My best writing

Check out some of my favorite things I’ve written

• A random failure: Problems upgrading Ansible and Python. The story of a data loss issue I caused at work and what I learned from it.
• Hack: saving QMK firmware source to the keyboard. A cool hack I did that saves the source code for a QMK configuration in the firmware itself.
• Lability tutorial. I used an excellent open source Windows lab automation package called Lability. It was really a joy to use, but I struggled at first to learn it. I wrote this tutorial as a way to teach myself, and hopefully help others. It’s one of my favorite writing projects. I’m really proud of it, and I even link to it on my résumé.

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• git back

  2023-06-01

  A useful custom git subcommand

• Convert SSH ed25519 key to Onion Service key

  2023-05-10

• Python stdout/stderr: print in real time and save for later

  2023-04-22

• A shrine to privacy

  2022-10-23

• Fun with iframes

  2022-10-07

• Archiving Tweets to HTML

  2022-07-13

• Running Wiki.js on Fly.io with Litestream backups

  2022-05-22

• Dark Mode

  2022-04-09

• New project pages

  2022-04-06

• Cistercian numerals are good for dates

  2022-04-05

• Site design updates

  2022-04-03

• A failed experiment: Python Pillow and a Cistercian font

  2021-11-01

• hugo-theme-cistercian

  2021-10-26

• Interpersonal: A connection to the IndieWeb

  2021-10-12

• Through the Looking Glass

  2021-09-07

• Slippery Slopes and Bright Lines

  2021-08-10

  Device-side CSAM scanning is a retreat to a strategically weaker position for end-user privacy contra nonconsensual search by law enforcement.

• I do Pilates in bed

  2021-07-20

• set -eu is the lesser of two evils, if you have to write shell at all

  2021-07-01

• Formulae Technica

  2021-06-29

• Hugo: Injecting an external file into a page with syntax highlighting

  2021-06-28

• Hugo Redirects and Partial Functions

  2021-06-26

• How I write shell scripts

  2021-06-24

• RSS styles

  2021-03-10

• Inline FontAwesome SVGs in Hugo

  2021-03-08

• Hardened 1Password emergency kit

  2021-03-01

• Let's Encrypt DNS challenges for appliances behind a firewall

  2021-02-25

• Secret control panels

  2021-02-23

• Biblemunger 2.0

  2021-01-21

• Fortunate

  2021-01-14

• Interviewed by ZSA, the makers of the ErgoDox-EZ

  2021-01-13

• Count like a Cistercian

  2021-01-11

• keymap.click 1.0

  2020-10-28

• keymap.click development preview

  2020-08-11

• deskmx: Never unplug your headphones again

  2020-07-21

• An Ansible filter is a pure function

  2020-06-28

• sparkles emoji dot ico

  2020-05-29

• A random failure: Problems upgrading Ansible and Python

  2020-05-20

  The story of a data loss bug I caused at work, how I fixed it, and some surprising behavior in Python and Ansible.

• Hack: saving QMK firmware source to the keyboard

  2020-01-18

• Windows, IKEv2, and error 13801

  2018-03-28

• Python, argparse, and custom actions and types

  2017-07-19

• CherryPy: Override the base URL behind a reverse proxy

  2017-04-26

• LockableSqliteConnection

  2017-04-26

• Python bullshit I'm proud of

  2017-04-25

• CherryPy: Cookies with HTTP basic authentication

  2017-04-25

• Announcing Caryatid

  2017-04-05

• Creating a Linux livecd

  2012-12-05

• Mozilla, SSL, and NSS

  2012-05-17

• Deploying SSL certificates

  2012-05-17

• Windows, symlinks, and pain

  2011-11-30

• DEFCON19 lanyard and PDP-8 assembly, part 2

  2011-09-01

• DEFCON19 lanyard and PDP-8 assembly, part 1

  2011-08-15

• DEFCON19 - In my day, you just walked into a bank with a gun and got money

  2011-08-12