Writings from a Philadelphia Software Engineer...
So, you think someone should be banned from a con? Let s discuss how that works. First, let s set expectations I want to get this part out of the way: Conventions generally reserve bans for credible risk, repeated misconduct, or clear violations of their policy, based on behavior that is documented, corroborated, or observed by staff. Continue reading "So, You Think Someone Should Be Banned From A…
Awhile ago I moved this blog to an AWS EC2 instance and, to try and reduce load on the instance, put the blog behind Amazon CloudFront, since CloudFront makes a decent front-side cache and has a free tier. All seemed well until one day I went to update an old blog post, and upon saving Continue reading "When AWS CloudFront Breaks WordPress"
I guess I should also talk about my Diceware passphrase project. I built the first draft of that project many years ago as a modernized and web-based version of the Diceware password approach rolling dice (for randomness) that correspond to common English words to generate high-entropy passphrases. Well, I m still at it, and just last week Continue reading "Diceware Update"
I ve been busy with a lot of things, just not all of them on the blog. There are two new things that I wanted to share here, though. First, I created a Now Page that I updated periodically, and I also put that into the menu bar for this website. You can see my Now Continue reading "Been Awhile Since I ve Posted Here"
Hey there! I first stumbled into the furry fandom in the late 90s attending my first furry convention in 1999 and staffing my first furry convention in 2000. I did not realize just how much of a long-term role it would play in my life. In nearly 3 decades, I ve since attended more than 130 conventions Continue reading "Inside the Furry Fandom"
I m on a few furry Telegram groups, and I figured I would put the list here as a resource for other furries who are looking for Telegram groups to join. For disclosure, I mod/admin a few of these groups. That said, I can endorse joining any of them if they are relevant to your interests.
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I ve been pretty quiet on this blog, but I ve been busy behind the scenes. One of the projects I ve worked on is https://www.ispecookay.com/, my first major project built in Serverless! Thanks to COVID, I was made a remote employee, which now means most days I m in my apartment building about 23 hours a day. This Continue reading "How s PECO? My New Website Will Tell You"
I have all artwork of my fursona over here. However, since I got a fursuit, I also have been getting art of me drawn as a goat, heavily influenced by Asriel Dreemurr from Undertale. This page is for that art. I will certainly be getting more art of me as a goat in the future. Continue reading "Furry Artwork and Commissions of Giza as a Goat"
Awhile ago, I got into QR Codes. I ve found them increasingly handy because I could make QR codes based on documents that I had stored in Google Docs, and then I could invite people to scan those QR Codes in person if I wanted to share what was in the doc. The QR Codes themselves Continue reading "Behold! A QR Code Generator That Doesn t Suck!"