Updated My "Uses This" page for 2025 For a long time, the website Uses This has published guest posts from different creative people asking them a few simple questions: who are you and what do you do? what software do you use? and what hardware? what is your dream setup? I always enjoyed reading these because sprinkled in between Macbook UX designers and people with important-sounding email jobs…
Posted: Fuck Time Two: Time Keeping Design Trends from 295BCE to ~2020CE Last week Will Bradley and I presented for David Huerta 's birthday party various methods of keeping time poorly, and why one should consider doing so. Fuck Time 2 on YouTube - Fuck Time 2 Slide Deck In 2014 shortly after I had moved to Oakland to join a startup live in a warehouse, Prescott Ogden participated in a…
Updated my "rrix uses this" page After getting particularly incensed at another month of "i use a macbook pro and ffligma :) and i love it" posts on Uses This , I decided I needed to update rrix "Uses This" for the year 2024. So I did that.
Postmortem: 2024-01 Wobserver Downtime Noticeable service degradation on Last Bank , the Wobserver powering The Complete Computer , began on [2024-01-04 Thu] when Matrix Synapse federation latency spiked to multiple minutes and metastasized to a full server outage lasting until [2024-01-11 Thu] . This event was improperly root-caused and ultimately the multi-day downtime occurred to unforeseen…
Securing and Standardizing Data Rights Requests with a Data Rights Protocol - DRP @ PEPR23 - A Video of my USENIX PEPR talk on Data Rights Protocol is online, watch as I struggle to describe my work and struggle to talk to a large-ish group of engineers about the work I did with Consumer Reports Innovation Lab . Archive Archive
I got a new smartwatch and wrote a watchface for it in an evening. I used Pebble watches for a long time and I really still like them but they're a pain to keep running these days and I never got around to writing custom code or apps or watchfaces for it. After my Pebble Time 2 HR bit the dust, I ended up buying a Amazfit Bip S , and it sort of worked, but I needed to install an extra app to…
California passed a DELETE Act California passed a DELETE Act : summary of the "old" federal bill and brief summary of how this bill will be applied. California passed a law that would give consumers an easy singular interface to opt-out of processing by data brokers and require them to delete your data. Neat stuff, if it works. There's a lot of overlap between this and what we've been…
"it isn't a contest. Just enjoy the ride." - remembering Seth Vidal A decade ago we learned of the passing of Red Hat/ Fedora Linux software engineer Seth Vidal on [2013-07-08 Mon] . In "it isn't a contest. Just enjoy the ride." - remembering Seth Vidal , I briefly memorialize a good man. I made a one-off entry to Fedora Linux 's blog aggregator with this post as well.
My New Homelab Build is basically complete At the beginning of March I started planning for the turndown of my 1U racked with Wobscale Technologies . It is a hilariously un-maintained Fedora Linux that basically exists to run Matrix Synapse and Nginx proxies to the host in my living room. That host was an Gen 8 HP Microserver and is now a SuperMicro + Xeon in a 4U with 256GB of RAM. 1000$ gets you…
Okay maybe I was wrong about 6.x In I am swearing off Kernel 6.x. I thought that it was the fault of 6.x degrading my desktop -- well, I rolled back to 5.15 and the VFIO module was still corrupting my framebuffer but it also broke X11. I spent hours getting mad at this situation after I moved my desktop in to the rack that my New Homelab Build now lives in, fiddling with BIOS settings, blindly…