At any given time on https://twitch.tv, the livestreaming capital of the internet, there are thousands and thousands of streamers playing games, making music, or just hanging out with an audience, talking and relaxing with friends. However, there are also thousands of streamers with nobody watching them – they are, in effect, screaming into the digital […]

My pet hisser Julian on the prowl, with some dubbed Jurassic Park for atmosphere.

I recently stumbled upon a site I wanted to save a video from, so I went to open devtools and check the Network tab for the video source when suddenly the page redirected me to an error page! After a couple tries it was clear this was detecting devtools being opened and directing me away […]

Zork is one of the very first interactive fiction games and was released in 1977 for the PDP-10. Interactive fiction is a gameplay style now (sadly) mostly lost to the sands of time where on-screen text describes your environment to you and you interact via basic text commands (e.g. go north, take sword, hit troll […]

If you’re like me (and, in this regard, if you’re not then you should be), you use Google Authenticator or a similar application to generate Multiple Factor Authentication tokens — six digit codes that add an extra step of identity verification to sites you log into. These codes rotate every thirty seconds and must match […]

Well, after four and a half wonderful years with my magnet, I bid it farewell. After a particularly firm snag and a subsequent major loss of sensitivity, I was concerned the magnet was fractured or the coating had failed so I did an emergency removal which went very smoothly and I’m now all healed up. […]

I’ve been diving quite a bit (just finished my 26th dive today)! Here are some videos from last weekend, when two buddies and I camped in Monterey and dove (literally) sunup to sundown, and from this weekend when I dove a marine preserve called Point Lobos with another friend of mine.

A couple weekends ago, I install PiHole, a software package that provides DNS blackholing for your local network, and I was shocked. Some background: DNS (domain name server) is essentially the internet’s phone book. When you type google.com,  your computer first asks a DNS server (run by your internet service provider, Google, Cloudflare, or any […]

…I’m becoming one of those blogs with 6 month intervals between posts. Life’s been great lately! I’m chugging along at work, taking on more responsibility for IT needs. Outside of work, I’ve jumped feet first into scuba diving! I’ve got my certification and am shooting for 20-25 dives under my belt before I hit Hawaii in […]

Hai world. It’s been a while since I posted; life is changing — updates lie within. I’m really liking my full-time gig doing software dev in SF. My parents are moving to South Carolina and I’ve just signed the lease on a cute little apartment in Redwood City. I’m currently struggling to sort through (and […]