Shaking it up today. Aeropress instead of Clever. I'm unpredictable like that

Built a 2 button macro keyboard. One of the buttons cycles through my tailnets with the `tailscale switch` command. The other one is for future use, the ALT was the only other keycap I had handy.

There's so much wrong with this post. Who decides if a cable is obsolete? I just had to BUY a 75 ohm coax recently. I'm sure I had some around, just couldn't find them. Probably under some books or pottery, maybe being used to hang plants; but quit making generalizations!

Puttering, trying new things. Spent a half hour trying to figure out what I had done wrong just to find out was a bad USB cable. Who ships "charging only" USBC cords? :shakes fist: But I got to the "hello world" stage of fiddling with esp32 pretty quickly

oh dear it's that "I just logged on and people are making vague references to something I haven't figured out yet" feeling

music.youtube.com/search?q=rhe... Pretty excited for new Rheostatics music

seriously confusing ambiguous "they" in that headline

I'll be joining Alex to talk about some of the new @tailscale.com features this afternoon (Eastern Time) tailscale.com/events-webin...

Just made 9 yoghurt tubs full of turkey stock, it's quite good! I'm ready for soup season!

Things have been so chaotic and in decline for so long that I'm tempted to start caring about sports so that the Blue Jays can give me hope.

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

I'm going to be doing a Q&A tomorrow (Friday October 17th) on Zoom and YouTube, if anyone is interested in asking questions, or seeing the type of questions that other people are asking about using Tailscale. You can register here: tailscale.com/events-webin...

More than 90% of Tailscale connections are direct. When they are not, it's usually because of tricky NAT traversal. Here's how we've been improving connectivity, both for us and the greater web. tailscale.com/blog/nat-tra...

This Halloween I’m going as the scariest thing of all, emotional intimacy!!! ha ha just kidding I’m prion disease

The Rheostatics have new music out, and it's weird and wonderful:

Hey, it's me!

In Toronto for BSides - come visit at the Tailscale booth tomorrow!

I'll be talking Tailscale again today. We're doing a webinar where I'll be taking technical questions on YouTube and Zoom. You can register here if you're interested in watching or participating: tailscale.com/events-webin...

I think my career in tech could have been predicted by the fact that I was the guy who brought a soldering iron to the lan parties.

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Still managing EKS access with legacy VPNs + security groups? There’s a better way. Join us for a live webinar to see how the Tailscale Kubernetes Operator modernizes remote access to EKS: 🔗 tailscale.com/events-webin...

“Evil men are ceded importance even after they die, when it no longer matters to them, and only affects us.” ― Malka Ann Older, The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (though from context I don't know whether she originated this quote or if its from someone else)

Just leaned back in a chair as a wasp was stinging me, causing it to get stuck in my back. If I lived alone, that would have been it, just living with a permanent wasp in my back.

You checked the news: -10 HP

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file

Notes on getting Tailscale working for Kobo Sync: - Mount the Kobo. - Rename .kobo/ssh-disabled to .kobo/ssh-enabled. Still working on the next steps.

Building out my pi-based retro gaming laptop, I wanted a better way to turn just the display off and on. Eventually, I would like this to get called from a GPIO, maybe a hall-effect to see if the lid is closed. jws.sh/piscreen.html

Waiting on a few parts before its finalized, like a keyboard cable, but my retro gaming laptop project is functional.

We were going to do another big marketing stunt for THE TOXIC AVENGER UNRATED. Instead, Toxie, whose life was upended by crushing medical bills, has joined forces with Undue Medical Debt to erase at least $5 million in un-payable medical debt for those who need it most. Learn more:

Some progress on my retro sleeper build. Found an old, broken 286 compaq laptop that had the same vibes as my old 386 laptop I had as a young person. I've gutted it, converted the old keyboard to USB, and replaced the dead screen with an LCD from a 1st gen ipad running on an HDMI adapter.

If someone claims to be scared of the subway but isn’t scared of being in a car on the highway—which is exponentially more dangerous + deadly—they are not a serious person

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

I got new office art today! Piece by www.instagram.com/tchugness and www.instagram.com/axelalime I saw it hanging in a restaurant in Montreal when I was traveling and talked to them on Instagram to arrange to buy it and have it shipped to me. I love it!

✨ Discord lives! We keep hearing the same thing from the Tailscale community. The need for a place to connect in real time. So, we’re meeting developers, hobbyists, and enthusiasts where many already are: Discord If that sounds like your kind of thing, come and join the fun 👉 discord.gg/tailscale

Just wrapped a six book binge by Malka Older. The Centenal Cycle trilogy: Excellent characters, interesting world building, and satisfying depth of lore. The second book lagged a bit, but the whole series is worth the time. It wrapped in a way that was telegraphed, but still satisfying.

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

Among arguments being made today: The Air Canada staff are so valuable that they should not be able to strike. Also, they are so low value that they should not be paid for much of the time that they are working.

Booker T and the Fieros

The newest Tailscale client can encrypt its state file at rest. What does that mean? How does that work? Here's a look, across every OS: tailscale.com/blog/encrypt...

North - Thompson, MB West - Nanaimo, BC East - Sydney, NS South - Colchester, ON

I've been wanting to write this one for a while. One of the reasons Tailscale is good is that we forced some tough choices up front. One of those tough choices was to make it a security/privacy tool, *not* an anonymity tool. tailscale.com/blog/tailsca...

Staying at a hotel in Montreal for the night. It cost a lot. The pictures were nice. The pictures were obviously retouched. You can't smell pictures. We did not read the reviews before booking. The bed feels like plywood. Must do more research when booking hotels in the future.

I waded in the Atlantic. That's worth breaking my rule: Never post feet online for free.

The ocean is pretty nifty

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

you actually should produce some uniquely bad music or art I've been drawing and playing around with making music and writing fiction and poetry for a couple weeks and it's all very bad and the production of it has been 20x more empowering than any code I've written in years.

Road trip got an early start. In Oshawa, heading East!