Actions Not Words

I’m going to start this off with the main point. I love this realization for my mom. In a very real sense of the world it reassures me. I’m too damn old though to not realize that the tone of what I say leaves this too nuainced to properly convey…

March 25, 2023 · 4 min

WGU

Just now starting looking at the first class I’m taking at WGU. It’s 1:44 AM on Saturday… Why I’m not asleep, I just don’t know. What I do know is that I’m doubting my decision to do this degree. The work will be a slog. Not complex enough to make…

March 25, 2023 · 1 min

A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste

My laptop has started getting flaky. I would be go along using it and then a random crash would occur. Or a reboot would fail. Etc, etc, etc… Confirmed my suspicions by running a memory diagnostic and found that the RAM is failing. $100 or so later and when the…

February 26, 2023 · 2 min

Apathy Wins

Started trawling through the PPP dataset and decided to focus on Bentonville based loans. That was a mistake. So many businesses that I know thrived during the pandemic or otherwise took advantage of the PPP loan program. Business where the owner has been publicly hateful to minorities. Or dismissive of…

February 12, 2023 · 2 min

Can't stop the signal, Mal.

I’ve gotten antsy about not doing some sort of large project. A side hustle to either push my understanding or create a new bullet point on my resume. I have plenty of work and other interests but a weak siren’s call keeps rattling around in my brain. So I’ll start…

February 6, 2023 · 1 min

Disclose The Agent - Write up

Decided to start back up with some basic training after someone mentioned LetsDefend.io. The site impressed me. Here is a writeup on one of their public facing challenges that kind of shows what to expect. Disclose the Agent Premise is that you’ve got a PCAP file and you need to…

February 5, 2023 · 2 min

Impossible List

Travel Go to Iceland and see the aurora or even the geography depending on the time of year. National Parks are America’s best idea and I want to see them all. Bryce Canyon Zion National Park Hot Springs Yellowstone Everglades Gateway Arch Grand Teton Great Smokey Mountains White Sands Grand…

February 1, 2023 · 1 min

Repeating Pattern

find . -type f -exec grep -li TXT_STRING {} ; strings /dir/to/executable | grep TXT_STRING lsof -i -P -n … … The number of times that I have to run these same commands. Find the string of text that is in the log file and where did it come from.

February 1, 2023 · 1 min

Testing out Next.JS

Well actually I’m testing out Publii more than anything.

February 1, 2023 · 1 min

Big Feelings With Big Songs

I have had to explain why I like musicals on a few occasions. Usually a soft pause happens in a conversation where that is revealed but occasionally a direct question is asked. It is always a weird one because I have to guess what level of info do I reveal.

January 3, 2023 · 1 min