I recently changed my home server from TrueNAS Core to TrueNAS Scale, which means I've been rebuilding/migrating my home infrastructure from the FreeBSD jails based system used in Core to Kubernetes on Scale. One of the trickier services to change over was Home Assistant (a fantastic piece of home
Read moreJust a quick note here, mostly as documentation for my future self. While working on the DNS parsing in pyatv, I wanted to run some of the logs reported in issues through Wireshark. The logs had the raw DNS message hex encoded, for example (from issue #919): 2021-01-09 22:15:
Read moreI recently had to figure out how to encrypt the root partition of a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian. I found some mentions of people doing it here and there, but no end-to-end walkthrough of how to do it. These instructions are for Raspbian 'wheezy' and assume a newly imaged SD
Read moreRecently I've noticed on Facebook a couple of trivia posts asking you to try to name a city in Virgina with a certain letter in it. As background, thses posts are coming from my friends living in Virginia. You also have to be at least somewhat familiar with Virginian municipal
Read moreThis is a quick trick for those who have to continually set up common settings when using Autotools-style configure scripts. One of the initial steps a configure script does is to look for a $prefix/share/config.site file and then to execute its contents. An example of how this
Read moreOne of the cool tricks I saw done with Objective-C a while ago was implementing a concatenation operator on NSString, using : similar to Haskell and ML. I have been unable to find the original site, so I decided to reimplement it myself recently.
Read moreWeekend project I made: cWavelet. It's a simple wavelet library written in pure C. I've been trying to wrap my head around wavelets off and on for about three months, and I finally got them enough to write a library. It is still being developed, but it does simple forward
Read moreThe Mac OS X install on my Mini 9 was recently borked (friend was borrowing it, and an unclean shutdown corrupted the file system), and I didn't have the install discs on me. I'd also been messing with the Lucid Lynx beta in a VM on my machine, and was
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