I do a lot with messaging architectures, and because I work on embedded systems so much lately, my main broker protocol has been MQTT, used with Javascript. I learned something that surprised me this morning, even though it really shouldn't…
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I recently set up a new VPS, because there was a sale on an instance large enough to serve my needs (and then some) at a price point that I couldn't ignore. My old host was RamNode, and make no…
I've been running TomatoUSB on my router (an Asus RT86) for years, but I've been noticing some flakiness lately, primarily in network devices just acting oddly on connection, poor connection throughput for a few specific devices, and a few other…
Programming can be thought of as something that takes place as part of interacting with a culture - a culture with two very different audiences. One "audience" is the CPU, and the other audience is made of other programmers -…
I converted to a mostly-Apple home office over the past couple of years. I still have different platforms hanging out - I have a Windows laptop for games (which is currently gathering a lot of dust), a few Linux embedded…
I recently migrated my wife's email to GSuite after an unconscionable delay - delayed mostly because the documentation for GSuite left some questions that I wasn't sure I could easily answer - and the delay was entirely unjustified. It was…
Want to install GraalVM on OSX? It's easy. First, get SDKMan. Trust me. You want it. Almost as much as brew, if you're doing anything with the JVM. You'll want to install bash - via brew - because SDKMan uses…
I upgraded Ubuntu to eoan, 19.10, this morning, and Wordpress broke. I was getting 502 Gateway errors, which is never comfortable. What the 502 means is that nginx was not able to connect to the backend service, which is php7.3-fpm…
I've been thinking about creating a service offering for people writing about programming on the web: editorial services. I'm not sure how it'd work yet, but here's what I'm thinking as of right now: What most authors need is someone…
Things I'm thinking about: RSS Feeds I've started using Newsblur again. I shut off Facebook a while back for various reasons (nothing drastic, just... tired, mostly), so my news has been supplied by a fairly limited set of channels. Newsblur…