Occasional thoughts and tidbits.
This article is part of a series where I discuss dn42, a decentralized VPN and community for studying network technologies. You can find out more about dn42 on its Wiki: https://dn42.dev/
Anycast is an addressing and routing technique where a destination IP...
I've done development in and around IRC since ~2014, and this post is really a long time coming. It summarizes discussions I've had, heated ones too, about the viability of IRC as a mainstream chat platform today, and into the future. As someone who's been accused of "hating IRC" and being "pointles...
I've been using Linux as my daily driver since 2017, and one particular question comes up a lot in my discussions with friends: why not Windows? So to answer this question and all its other "why not $OS" variants, I've written this post to describe some of my thought...
This article is part of a series where I discuss dn42, a decentralized VPN and community for studying network technologies. You can find out more about dn42 on its Wiki: https://dn42.dev/
All of my examples here use Bird 2, and assume you use the same config variables as dn42's guide: https://...
Five years ago, I started PyLink as a challenge: create a multi-network IRC services engine that would be the basis for transparent relaying between networks. The goal of this project was simple: allow networks to loosely federate and share channels while still maintainin...
Some months ago, my friend @shypre bought a GPIO powered LED matrix board and some LED strips, very much like the ones from AdaFruit. We decided to do some work on it together.
The setup portion was fairly straightforward - we connected the LED matrix to a 5 volt power supply,...
DISCLAIMER: this is an old post from 2018 that I've republished for historical reference, as I saw a few sites link back to it. There is now a coordinated effort to support running Debian on Raspberry Pi, complete with pre-built images: see htt...