Photography, cats, computing, and anecdotes from an Oklahoman fox.
Hello, Internet. I ve had a lot of things going recently. If you have any knowledge of Pokémon, you could consider this an evolution. My new blog is at https://dalmatian.life/ and yes, that does mean that Foxy is now Spots. There is going to be a lot of not-tech stuff there, too. If you re hoping exclusively Continue reading "HTTP 303: See Other Blog"
There have been a few positive, blog-worthy notes happening in my life the past few months. The first is that by the grace of God, I found actual full-time employment working with a wonderful team doing important work. And, as luck would have it, they actually care about work/life balance as well. That means I Continue reading "2025: The year of new beginnings"
While writing a project for Wilcox Tech that we hope to open source soon, I had reason to test the content (or, in some cases, presence) of meta/ tags in a Rails app. I came across a good start in dB.’s blog article, Custom RSpec Meta Tag Validator. However, the article was from 2013, did Continue reading "An RSpec matcher for validating Rails meta/ tags"
Hello, and welcome back to FOSS Fridays! One of the final preparations for the release of Adélie Linux 1.0-beta6 has been updating the graphical stack to support Wayland and the latest advancements in Linux graphics. This includes updating Mesa 3D. It’s been quite exciting doing the enablement work and seeing Wayfire and Sway running on Continue reading "The complexities of enabling OpenCL…
After a long and somewhat unreasonable delay, I have returned to bringing the Adélie Linux kernel package up to date with the latest LTS release, which at the time of this writing is 6.6.58. Presently, we use the 5.15 LTS branch. I am hoping to see us land the 6.6 branch so that we can Continue reading "Fear and loathing in kernel building"
One of my best friends, Horst, is working on “bootstrapping” Java in the Adélie Linux distribution. This means we will be able to build the Java runtime entirely from source, not relying on binaries from Oracle or others which means we can certify and trust that our Java is free from any third-party code. Continue reading "A funny thing happened on the way to the Java bootstrap…"
I have completed an initial new port of systemd to musl. This patch set does not share much in common with the existing OpenEmbedded patchset. I wanted to make a fully updated patch series targeting more current releases of systemd and musl, taking advantage of the latest features and updates in both. I also took Continue reading "Porting systemd to musl libc-powered Linux"
As part of my work to set up infrastructure for a few projects that I hope to launch with some mates in the coming months, I needed to set up a KVM virthost using Gentoo. I decided to write up the process for FOSS Friday! This setup was performed on a Hetzner AMD server running Continue reading "Experiences with building a Gentoo virtualisation host"
I have a Haskell-era MSI B85-G41 PC Mate motherboard and I decided to use it as a “mid-tier”-ish gaming PC and also as a TV set top box. I already had a WinTV-DCR-2650 dual-tuner CableCARD USB device, and I was gifted a Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 for the project. The board had 32 GB RAM Continue reading "Dual-booting Windows 11 and Windows 7 on a Haswell"
I’ve just repaired the hinge on my Indigo Clamshell. While I was in there, I also replaced the aging hard disk with a SD card adaptor. I wanted to write down a few notes about the process, both for posterity and so that others can benefit from my experience. The standoffs for the hard disk Continue reading "Notes about the iBook G3 Clamshell"