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 the one the server is expecting (kinda like nuclear launch codes, but to log into Twitter/Google/banking/etc.).
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’ll miss it dearly; after that long, it became an instinct — just the other day I was doing PC maintenance and confidently reached for a screw with my finger that disappointingly didn’t jump onto it for safekeeping… This will take some getting used to :(
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 other of hundreds of DNS providers) for the website’s IP address. The IP address is how the infrastructure of the web actually knows how to route your request — if google.com is like saying “Dave Smith’s House”, the IP address 216.58.192.14 that corresponds to it is like knowing “123 Main Street, Greenville, South Carolina.
…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 September. I’m getting plugged in with some local clubs as well as wildlife teams that do volunteer fish/kelp/urchin/etc. survey dives for reports to the Dept. of Fish and Wildlife.
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 dispose of most of) my accumulated junk from the last 22 years of life, including much that was acquired before I realized I have a great distaste for physical objects I don’t use regularly (read: I have a monumental amount of crap to throw away).
My latest hobby/focus/obsession has been mead, and man, I’ve been having so much fun sinking my teeth into the art and science — already made 3 gallons and just started a 5.5 gallon batch.
To track what’s at what step, what my recipes are, and to do some helpful conversions, I made Mead.Kiwi, a site to track all of my work. On each bottle is a QR code that will take you to the recipe page for your bottle, contain records of mixing/pitching/aging, data from intermediate density readings, etc. I’m pretty happy with it, and seeing as how I haven’t been doing much coding lately, I thought I’d at least put it here.
TL;DR: I’ve learned things, built things, got employed at a thing, was sad about and thought about things, and am happy about things.
Ohai there. I said I’d post with what I’m up to over my break, so here are things:
I still have a few weeks to go before day one at the new job (first full time job after a decade in the industry — a weird, exciting, and terrifying prospect), so expect a few more frivolous side projects and (hopefully) some alpha releases from projects I’m helping out with!
Today marks the end of two summers of interning with Facebook; I’ll be going away for a week and then the job hunt begins with a mess of interviews.
I’m so proud of my time at FB — the friends I’ve made, personal challenges faced, and skills developed. To tell the truth, I’m not really sure what I’m feeling right now; it’s part excitement, part sadness, and many parts perspective looking forward and back.
Hey y’all. This has been a long and tiring (and sleepless) week, so in my restless hours, I built a web app to help you unplug, breathe deep, and recenter.
Hope you like it.
