I hear the phrase “know your why” in the keto community. I first heard it from Brian Williamson (a.k.a ketovangelist) who I can paraphrase as: if you don’t remember why you’re doing something, what’s going to keep you doing it? My why has always been my mom, for many, many things, but specifically, her health struggles have always driven me to try to be healthier because I never wanted to end up with the same troubles. [ Read More… ]

A minimal monit-compatible implementation to report basic system info to m/monit.

Computer networks were revolutionary in the 1980s, but they’re required today.

When using the old computers I have, the first thing I discovered is that nothing on the web works in old browsers anymore. The old browsers can’t do modern SSL, PNG graphics, CSS or most HTML. So, in an effort to make the internet usable, I built legacyproxy. I mainly targeted Netscape 1.1N and it has some triggers for its specific User-Agent. To get started, you just configure the browser’s HTTP Proxy to point to a running instance of the legacyproxy. [ Read More… ]

Beyond the original Macintosh computers I have working, I assembled a few alternative Macintoshes using Raspberry Pis to emulate the old hardware.

I have a few old computers in my basement. They are mostly old Macintosh computers, starting with my first ever computer, a Macintosh LC. I started evaluating which ones I should keep by making sure they still work.

I have been listening to audio books while exercising and commuting. When describing the act of listening to an audio book, I use the verb to read. I moved all my summaries and history of books I’ve been reading to goodreads to make them more public, easier to maintain and keep them from taking over my blog.

For the past three months I have participated in Shawn Baker’s n=many carnivore study, 90 days of eating nothing but meat.

Recipe for Mini Cheesecakes or Cinnamon Fat Bombs

I had a dream where I was working on hacking on something with another person, I had apparently travelled to the past, since I still had on an Apple Watch, but it said the year was 2003. While hacking on whatever it was, I had the idea to download Linux, but then I remembered it wasn’t released yet. There were all sorts of things that don’t make sense in the dream: my Apple Watch face doesn’t show the year, nor is there a way to show it and Linux certainly had been released. [ Read More… ]