A long weekend (here in the US) combined with a few strategic days off, and I had a long, five day weekend. A few of those days I managed to get out of the house and down to a coffee shop, so I got a bit of work in, and managed to wrap up a bunch of techno housekeeping. First, with a new laptop and a fresh VM install of Debian 9, I've got all the components in place to reach my ideal PGP setup ‐ my day-to-day keys are on a Yubikey 4, ssh can now forward unix domain sockets, and gpg has well-defined socket locations for the agent that deals with keys.
Bae and I both got addicted to Yuri on Ice when it came out, and when picking a costume for Flame Con, bae picked Yuri. He wanted to have ice skates in the costume, and so I put a bunch of thought into how we could make ice skates something that would be walkable. Eventually I decided that I'd embed the blades of iceskates in a plastic resin block with some sort of sole attached to it.
tl;dr: If you're trying to follow Kenn White's My $169 development Chromebook and the Google account you're using on the Chromebook is associated with a Google Apps For Your Domain domain, there will be ... issues. You'll quickly discover that at the "Turn on the Play Store" step, doing that for GAFYD domains is controlled by your domain administrator. I happen to be my domain administrator, and I quickly fell into a morass of device management and device enrollment and licenses and and and.
Hi! You, or one of your colleagues, has decided to recruit me for Google. Typically, I've been reluctant to consider Google as part of my career path, but I thought I'd give you folks a chance. But first, a story. Back in the Mists of Time(TM) (July 2006) I created a YouTube account at youtube.com/users/tproa/. Then, Google, starting along the path to becoming the computing behemoth we think of it today, bought out YouTube.
I'm at Container Days NYC 2016 and during the OpenSpaces kick-off session I might have invented the term 'zero-factor' apps. A play on the Twelve-Factor App methodology, 'zero-factor' might be considered things that are basically the opposite of whatever twelve-factor is. I thought of it as If I were going to start something new now, I'd likely do twelve-factor or something very akin to it. But I'm stuck with legacy apps that aren't going to get much (if any) love any time soon, or the process of making those apps is going to take a lot of time — they're 'zero-factor'.
For ad-hoc quick usage I most often use the screen /dev/somedevice baudrate for serial things, but for real usage, I prefer minicom. Mostly because I typically want my things to be running under screen, and screen in screen makes my head hurt, and because when I use that trick, I can never remember how to make screen quit. As I've been doing more with Raspberry Pis, I've gotten a handful of the Adafruit FTDI friends to use as USB to serial adapters.
Let me preface this by saying I love digital media. I'm not one of those that grouses about the soullessness of digital music, and I love that in one small physical device I can carry enough text to read to satisfy me for days and music to listen to to satisfy me for weeks. That said.... Last Friday at work we somehow got talking about the cartoon Powerpuff Girls and somehow came across the fact that the end-credits theme song to the show was performed by the Scottish band Bis.
Documented here because this took me far too long to remember this. For a project at work, I need to talk to our LDAP server and munge with some directory entries. The server (OpenLDAP), is configured to handle GSSAPI authentication which is good because I want to use the authzto rules that the gooey pile of kerberos/gssapi/sasl gives me. I also want to use a keytab, because this is a long running process and I don't want to also have to have something like k5start running in the background.
The cheesecake is from a bakery, but the sauce was thrown together by me. Put some orange juice and mandarin oranges in a glass bowl, heat in the microwave, stiring every so often, about 25 minutes, or until the sauce has thickened. No need to crush the oranges, they'll fall apart. Dash in some orange bitters (I used Regan's), chill for a bit. Enjoy.
During the Big Nothing Blizzard of 2015 here in NYC, I wedged an old iPhone in my living room window and had it make a time lapse video of the event. Nothing came of the storm, at least here, but I got interested in time lapse photography and bought a Raspberry Pi with a camera. I've been half mucking with it, and the night before Snowpocalypse 2016 hacked enough together to take images and drive Mathom Cam.