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OctPoWriMo Day 27. Two Questions Before the Clock Strikes

OctPoWriMo Day 27. Too Big To FailOne thing I love about poetry is the way poems can manipulate time. A poem can represent the real time it takes to read it, or an entire lifetime. It can encapsula...

process, thread, task

§ general [2] Tanenbaum: A process is just an instance of an executing program, including the current values of the program counter, registers, and variables. Conceptually, each process has its own...

xx execs commands for you in your Docker Compose projects

This is a short blog post about a short Perl script that I wrote to execute commands in running Docker Compose containers.

Configure A Static IP Address On FortiGate Interface

Overview I will provide the configuration necessary to configure a static IP address on a FortiGate interface. Part of this entails the discussion of interface roles and what you can use them for. ...

Unlimited On-Demand Graph Databases with Cloudflare Durable Objects

How to create isolated, scalable graph databases using Cloudflare Durable Objects and SQLite for multi-tenant applications

🌰 Sammy Keyes - a book review

Sammy Keyes is a middle grade mystery series centering a young girl living illegally with her grandmother. This review does not contain spoilers. What Works the choice of characters feels realistic...

Building for the future

On Tangled's existence and direction Also published at: https://icy.leaflet.pub/3m47cll72hs25 We set out to build Tangled for one simple reason: the existing options just… suck. Some more, some les...

Claude Code CLI over SSH on macOS: Fixing Keychain Access

Claude Code fails silently when run over SSH on macOS because it can't access your OAuth token stored in the keychain. SSH sessions don't have keychain access by default. Here's a simple zsh wrappe...

Texas Linux Fest: After the Fact

A summary our trip to Austin, TX to be a community exhibitor at 2025 Texas Linux fest! Especially the success of the DIY NAS giveaway!

Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLI 〜 Mahiru, Allen, and George

Welcome to the 251st edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...

SANs Holiday Hack Challenge 2024: Snow-maggeddon

Writeup from what I’ve completed for SANs Holiday Hack Challenge 2024: Snow-maggedon.

Infrastructure-as-Code is broken by design—formae wants to start over

Platform Engineering Labs unleashes Formae, an extensible open-source fix for infrastructure-as-code woes, ditching brittle files for declarative freedom and faster deploys.

bootc 101: dalla container image alla tua distro personale

Wintering on Lakes Te Anau and Manapouri

Alfred H. Burton’s account and photographs of his three month trip to lakes Te Anau and Manapouri in June 1889. One of Burton's Camp, Lake Manapouri. Text sourced from the New Zealand National Libr...

🌰 it’s hard to savor the end when you don’t know it’s coming

You gotta savor the ending of a good book. When you know it’s the last page or paragraph you can slow down and really feel what the characters are feeling. With audiobooks and ebooks, though, it’s ...

Building Embedded C Applications on Windows with GCC, CMake and Ninja

Most embedded C developers start writing their code on their microcontroller manufacturer's provided IDE - STM32CubeIDE, MPLAB X, TI Code Composer, NXP MCUXpresso, Segger Embedded Studio, Keil uVis...

Why the New Leisure Class Enjoys Activism and Philanthropy

Wealthy aristocrats once demonstrated their power and status by entering government, making war, and funding churches and artists. Though the forms have changed, they still do today. The post Why t...

Banned in Real Life

It was a Friday evening, and I had just finished having dinner with some friends from work. As everyone was heading out, I got a text from a good friend of mine. He invited me to hangout with some ...

T-Shaped engineers: the blueprint for building with AI

As AI transforms how we build software, the T-shaped engineer has become essential. With broad technical fluency and deep domain expertise, these engineers bridge human judgment and AI capabilities...

The adaptive reuse of LaVilla's 927 West Forsyth Street

The adaptive reuse of 927 West Forsyth Street in LaVilla into a Japanese-style entertainment concept is now underway. Here's a sneak peak look inside. - Planned by Jacksonville-based Pearl Hospital...