Time for an evening meeting! I don’t get many folks joining the evening sessions. Pondering if I should just have them in the mornings, but I don’t want to cut out folks who might join evenings in future months. Being fair isn’t hard, but it is super annoying. See you there! Or not. < shrug […]
Half the year gone, and a quarter million words written? Some of them useless, yeah. But still, a quarter million words! Now to see if I can keep it up in the constant hail of immoral Supreme Court decisions. Speaking of disasters, you might want to know about my latest FreeBSD Journal column. The theme […]
I wouldn’t go so far as to say that we’re boring, but we’re not exactly exciting either. Maybe we talk Terry Pratchett, or heavy metal, or pets, or the boundless stupidities of software. But the good news is, we’re always there for each other despite being locked inside by this pandemic. We’re doing the morning […]
June 2022. Halfway through the year, sort of. Shouldn’t I have gotten more done? Maybe not thirty books yet, but a couple dozen at least? Alas, no. Why? Because teeth suck, but not having teeth also involves sucking. I’ll spare the details, especially as they involve phrases like “fracture” and “implanting someone else’s bone in […]
It’s spring. We can leave the house without freezing. Why are we still meeting? Oh. Pandemic. Right. Saturday 14 May 2022, 7PM, to support the West Coast folks. I need a little more text to keep the invite below the preview, so here’s a snippet of the in-progress OpenBSD storage book. It’s fairly generic material […]
I can occasionally open the office window without freezing. Life is once again worth living. There are other reasons, yes. But after six months locked in my office, swapping out the air is a delight. My house is heated by a boiler, which is energy-efficient and cozy and does not move the air. At all. […]
Last month’s hang out was in the evening, so we will meet in the morning. 10 AM Detroit, on 16 April 2022. The zoom invite follows at the end of this message. I have a few new Patronizers at this level, and I’m always delighted to see new faces, so don’t be shy. If it […]
April isn’t turning out as difficult as last month. In March, four books with my name on them came out in quick succession–“DNSSEC Mastery 2/e,” “Domesticate Your Badgers,” “Letters to ed(1),” and the “Fiction River: Broken Dreams” anthology. I did my best to promote everything, and burned out my promo brain. Seeing as I’m planning […]
Welcome to False Spring, which is a step before Fool’s Spring, which comes before Taunting Spring. It’s a perfect time to sit inside and talk online while all any of us really wants to do is hang out on the taco shop patio and sample the abuela’s latest masterpieces. Saturday, 19 March, 7PM Detroit time. […]
Hi folks! I answer the letters column for the FreeBSD Journal. I wanted to call it “Letters to ed(1),” but the actual editors had other ideas. (Setting aside the totally irrelevant fact that I am not FJ’s editor!) I’ve collected the first three years as a cheap (not inexpensive, cheap) ebook, to be released on […]
