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Unknown — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 04:56:00 -0800
No, not that Avatar. And not the other one either. This post is about avatar.png</code>, a handful of lines of PHP that have inspired me for a long time.</p>
Around 2011 or 2012 a friend of mine, Andrew Kvalheim</a>, blew my mind when he made his Skype profile picture display the IP address of the computer I was using. It might have looked a bit like this.</p>


Parsing TFTP in Rust
Unknown — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 16:45:00 -0800
Several years ago I did a take-home interview which asked me to write a TFTP</a>
server in Go</a>. The job wasn't the right fit for me, but I enjoyed the
assignment. Lately, in my spare time, I've been tinkering with a Rust</a>
implementation. Here's what I've done to parse the protocol.</p>


A Fresh Coat of Paint
Unknown — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 21:04:00 -0800
I'm starting the new year with a new job. To paraphrase a friend, "it's just
moving from one $BIGCORP</code> to another", but it's still exciting. I worked my
last gig for 5 years, so I'm nervous, but also very ready to do something new.
While I'm doing one new thing I might as well do another. Taking some time off
between jobs has given me enough breathing room to redo my website.</p>


node.example.com Is An IP Address
Unknown — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 06:13:05 -0800
Hello! Welcome to the once-yearly blog post! This year I'd like to examine the
most peculiar bug I encountered at work. To set the stage, let's start with a
little background.</p>


Deprecating Layabout
Unknown — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 17:29:00 -0800
Since Layabout</a> launched last year it has been downloaded 5,755 times, gotten
16 stars on GitHub, been used by a Portuguese startup to teach a
Haskell workshop</a>, and received a Twitter shout-out</a> from @roach</a>, one of
the core contributors to the official Python Slack client</a>. During that time the
official client library also got a lot</strong> better! So much better, in fact,
that I've decided to deprecate Layabout.</p>


Announcing Layabout
Unknown — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 00:16:52 -0700
Today I'm announcing Layabout</a>, my first official Python library. Layabout is
a small event handling library on top of the
Slack Real Time Messaging (RTM) API</a>. You can get it right now
on PyPI</a>.</p>


Resolving A DNS Issue
Unknown — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 13:21:00 -0700
Haha. Get it? Resolving</em> a DNS issue. OK, that was bad. You don't have to read
anymore, but I'm SOA</code> into this. You might even say I'm in the zone. I think
it's gonna be A</code> great read, so consider sticking around, 'cuz there's no
TLD;R.</p>


Stateful Callbacks in Python
Unknown — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 07:54:00 -0800
If you're unfamiliar with what a callback is, don't worry, we can sort that out
quickly. If callbacks are old hat for you you might want to skip to
the interesting bit</a>.</p>
Simply put, a callback is a function that is passed as an argument to
another function which may execute it.</p>


gutenberg init blog
Unknown — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 15:17:00 -0800
When I first created this site I wanted to get it live as quickly as possible.
Hexo</a>, a blogging framework written in Node.js, seemed like the perfect
tool. At the time I was rather interested in Node.js, so it seemed natural to
use a framework rooted in that community.</p>
By the time of my last post I'd become increasingly disinterested in Node.js
and much more interested in Rust and its community. It was mostly
procrastination, but I convinced myself that using a tool written in a language
I didn't use often directly contributed to the paucity of posts here, so I
finally decided to ditch Hexo.</p>


git filter-wat
Unknown — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 16:06:33 -0800
Welcome to this year's annual blog post!</p>
I've been signing git</code> commits for my dotfiles</a> repository since its
inception in October of last year, so I was excited to see that GitHub recently
added GPG signature verification</a>. All you have to do is upload your
public key</a> to GitHub and you'll be verifying commits like a champ. Or so I
thought…</p>


hexo init blog
Unknown — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 01:57:13 -0800
I've been wanting to start a blog for a long time now. Today I'm pulling the
trigger on that with a simple hexo init blog</code>. Well, it wasn't that</em> simple,
so I feel like it's worth talking about a few of the complications I had.</p>