Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
I’ve just started keeping a list of the (good) books I’m reading. Check out the full list! I grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts in the late 70s and 80s. Our schools did the whole shelter under your desk thing, but consensus amongst my friends was that we were close enough to a bunch of ICBM … Continue reading Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
Share to Roku!
TLDR: if you watch TV on a Roku and have an Android phone, please give my new Share To Roku app a try! It’s currently in open testing; install it with this link on the web or this link on your Android device. The app is free, has no ads, saves no data and only … Continue reading Share to Roku!
Anyone out there? Service discovery with SSDP, WSD, other acronyms.
Those few regular readers of this stuff may remember What should we watch tonight, in which I used the Roku API to build a little web app to manage my TV watchlist. Since then I’ve found TV Time, which is waaay better and even tells me how many days until the next season of Cobrai … Continue reading Anyone out there? Service discovery with SSDP, WSD, other acronyms.
Bentwood Ring v0.8
A few weeks ago “bentwood rings” started showing up on my Pinterest feed amongst the usual fare of woodturning and off-grid power systems (that recommendation engine knows its business). I’d been thinking vaguely about wooden rings for awhile, so went down the Internet rabbit hole to see what was up. There’s a ton of good … Continue reading Bentwood Ring v0.8
Regulated software for software people
If you’ve built software at any scale, you know how the game works. You get requirements from somewhere — usually they’re wrong or at best incomplete. You do your best to implement and test them, and you ship. Users vote with their clicks as to what features work and which don’t — i.e., they refine … Continue reading Regulated software for software people
More crypto hijinks, aka WTF happened to Terra-Luna?
Today I’m setting aside my belief that all crypto is doomed to fail. It is, but that’s a medium-term diagnosis — at least for now, and ignoring the day-to-day bugs that occur in all software, blockchain technology certainly works as advertised. It’s actually super-cool and worth reading up on; my articles on crypto theory and … Continue reading More crypto hijinks, aka WTF happened to Terra-Luna?
Milling (boards) and drilling (pockets)
Have I mentioned how much I love our place on Whidbey Island? The ocean and animals are always present, and the house is built perfectly to take advantage of all that natural beauty. But the kitchen? Eh. I mean, it works fine, it’s just, well, ugly. The folks we bought from never found a clearance … Continue reading Milling (boards) and drilling (pockets)
RuBy – Blocking Russia and Belarus
The Internet is a funny place. At the exact same moment that Russian troops are committing war crimes in the real world, Russian users online are just bopping around as if everything is cool. ShutdownHook is anything but a large-scale website, but it does get enough traffic to provide interesting insights in the form of … Continue reading RuBy – Blocking Russia and Belarus
Three Logs, a Chainsaw, and the Scary Wheel of Death
A few weeks ago upon hauling another awesome log up off of the beach, I realized that there was in fact nowhere to put it. Every mostly-out-of-the-rain nook and cranny on our property was full up with logs and branches and stumps waiting to be made into, well, something cool. Time to use up some … Continue reading Three Logs, a Chainsaw, and the Scary Wheel of Death
You got your code in my data, or, how hacks work.
Once upon a time, hacking was easy and cheap entertainment, and we did it all the time: Microsoft’s web server used to just pass URLs through to the file system, so often you could just add “::$DATA” to the end of a URL and read source code. Web server directory browsing was usually enabled, making … Continue reading You got your code in my data, or, how hacks work.
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