Hello Again! It's been quite a while since I've posted here. I did a little bit of private daily journaling in May and June of 2020 as a way…

It's been a weird month. Two months ago if you'd ask me what I'd be doing in late March/early April, I'd have told you that I'd be in Japan…

Every once in a while it's nice to build something that's dumb or not useful or downright questionable. This weekend I had an urge to make…

I was playing around with some stuff at work today and I thought I'd give Proxys another look since I was knee deep in setting getters and…

Read through software projects you use I've been spending some time over the last few weeks picking some software projects that I use and…

I (semi-)recently went to Facebook's Developer Conference, F8, in San Jose, CA. It was the first conference I've gone to since I went to…

Sometimes it helps to take a software project and just read through the source code. If the documentation is good enough or the interface is…

I mostly got the inspiration for writing this post after reading the Appendix A of Functional-Light JavaScript, which explains the concepts…

Promise.all is a static method on the Promise object that takes a list of items and returns a promise that resolves with a list containing…

It's March, which means my birthday is coming up, which means that another year has gone by. I haven't written on my personal blog in a long…

I recently read You Don't Know JS: Async & Performance by Kyle Simpson. As someone who's struggled with promises, callbacks, and generators…

I haven't posted in like half a year, and that's kind of sad, but shit's busy yo. Summer Over the summer me and a coworker helped add the…

I wrote a Pushbullet client using Racket a week or so ago. The client is made up of a majority of three parts API URL constants Low-level…

This isn't super relevant with the increased Nintendo Switch availability, but I thought I'd document the process I used to make an…

Why Racket? I've mostly been discouraged from writing smaller, one-off programs in Scheme/Racket because I've only used it in an academic…

This is a little bit of a meta post about how this blog runs and how I'm changing it. Background This blog is generated using Jekyll, a…

I was working through section 2.3.4 of The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP), which uses lists as data structures to…

I've been splitting different services on my servers into their own jails so that they can be isolated for security and isolation purposes…

I wrote a post about using Pulldasher with Docker a few months ago to explain how to use Docker to run Pulldasher or debug Pulldasher…

Inspiration I recently got to set up a multi-service web app with Docker Compose. I found that Docker Compose handled most of the problems…

I've been using the reference python implementation for LetsEncrypt since the beta days. I don't think that there's anything inherently…

Intros Introductions were very cool. The conference was small enough that every single person was able to introduce themselves in front of…

Background Jails are a way to create an isolated environment to run programs in on FreeBSD. The idea is that given a directory subtree…

This weekend I made some changes to Pulldasher that allows it to be run in a Docker container. Pulldasher is a dashboard for Github pull…

I recently became the proud owner of a hand me down HP LaserJet 1020. It's a fairly basic laser printer that prints in black and white, and…

IRC is pretty cool, you can find chat rooms for almost any topic rizon or ask questions and talk about technology and open source projects…

Last night, I spent about an hour making systemd unit files for each service I use on my DigitalOcean droplet that I have previously either…

Oops, I kind of forgot that this still exists. I'm going to actually start using this again to document things. This'll include projects I…

Today I was able to do something I haven't been able to for a very long time. I woke up on my own and I made myself coffee in my own kitchen…