I can’t legally admit that I was ever hacked. But sometimes people close to me get it. When I can’t respond in time, bad things happen. True, with great sysadmin powers come great responsibility. But in another truth, the rivers of data that connect us together are leakier…
I’m sure you’ve all had it. This year has been a bastard to all of us. Some of us have lost friends, jobs, loved ones, homes, futures. We’ve all had to put our lives on hold, watching the fishbowl of the world outside. Seeing empty TV spectacles…
Hi folks. I won’t take too much of your time. But I wrote a poem and now you can read it. In Carcosa; Lamentia & Dolores swept calmly to the sea; The witches laughed and played their games In subtle harmony While black stars rose and islands sank Demurely…
So, as you may know about me, I’ve got a strong interest in open-source software. It’s fun: pull something for free, break it, get a new one. Free as in free beer appeals to my senses. And the horror of spending an extra hundred on a Windows license…
I realized that this professional blog has begun to veer into personal stuff. I don’t really want this. Sure, we have tragedies in our lives. But if we are going to stay above the mire, we have to keep walking. So I’m going to discuss some of my…
Travis was my roommate at Sangamon State University in 2008. We had a lot of fun times and he was one of the best men I knew from then until now. Two years ago, I saw him for the last time when my now-wife and I came back up from…
A few days ago, my delighted wife and I completed purchase on a bit of condo space in Chicago. Given your beloved author is the primary techie of our house, it fell to me to build up our own at-home network. That’s right: finally, the chance to fully control…
For the first time ever on hartr.net, cloud migration has resulted in a significant savings on AWS costs, which have been mitigated 90%. Migrating from Amazon towards DigitalOcean has also resulted in a 33% reduction in compute costs, which is terrific news for everybody who likes to read or…