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• 04 Jul 2025

  Open Source Activities for June 2025

  We’re well into trixie’s hard freeze, which means significantly less packaging activity in June. That’...
• 02 Jun 2025

  Open Source Activities for May 2025

  The trixie hard freeze began on May 15, and most of my work last month focused on making sure the packages I help mainta...
• 04 May 2025

  Open Source Activities for April 2025

  The first half of April was focused on the new LTS releases of lxc and incus, as well as making the final significant up...
• 26 Apr 2025

  Google doesn't like IPv6?

  For the past week or so, when trying to search Google I’ve encountered the following message several times a day: ...
• 05 Apr 2025

  Open Source Activities for March 2025

  March 15th marked the first of the trixie freeze milestones. I updated several packages and performed various cleanup an...
• 02 Mar 2025

  Open Source Activities for February 2025

  February was a bit of a lighter month, due to travel and other activities. I spent some time polishing up LXD to help en...
• 05 Feb 2025

  Open Source Activities for January 2025

  The trixie freeze dates were announced earlier this month, which means we’re getting closer to the release. The ne...
• 03 Jan 2025

  Wireguard's minimum MTU for IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels

  Recently while traveling, I went to activate my wireguard VPN connection, but it failed with the error RTNETLINK answers...
• 02 Jan 2025

  Open Source Activities for December 2024

  Even though the trixie freeze dates haven’t yet been announced, this past month my focus began to shift to prepari...
• 01 Dec 2024

  Open Source Activities for November 2024

  In addition to the work below, I’ve been testing the KDE Plasma 6 packages from experimental, and at the end of No...
• 28 Nov 2024

  ChatGPT spam is here

  Well, ChatGPT spam has found its way to my blog’s comments. Yay. 😑 A while back I received a flurry of comments th...
• 06 Nov 2024

  Fuck

  Seems like an appropriate response….
• 03 Nov 2024

  Open Source Activities for October 2024

  Had a fairly productive month with lots of packaging and BTS work. Highlights OpenRCT2 v0.4.15 was uploaded to unstable ...
• 04 Oct 2024

  Open Source Activities for September 2024

  September didn’t present a lot of time for open source work, as I was busy helping put on the Duke City Hamfest an...
• 02 Sep 2024

  Open Source Activities for August 2024

  A few updates from last month; I sponsored a couple packages and updated a handful of others. Debian packaging work Spon...
• 15 Aug 2024

  Open Source Activities for July 2024

  Last month was busier than normal, as I attended DebConf24 and was therefore able to spend quite a bit of focused time o...
• 12 Jan 2024

  The Path to Incus in Debian

  A Brief Recap It’s been an interesting six months or so in the Linux Containers world. Just a month after the Debi...
• 15 Oct 2023

  Annular eclipse

  This weekend, an annular eclipse passed directly over Albuquerque, and it was quite a sight! The weather was beautiful, ...
• 16 Aug 2023

  Happy 30th Birthday, Debian!

  Today marks Debian’s thirtieth anniversary! Happy birthday, Debian, and many more to come!
• 10 Jun 2023

  Debian bookworm released!

  Debian bookworm has been released! 🎉 Some highlights of the work I performed during the bookworm release cycle include: ...
• 09 Jun 2023

  A new laptop

  After about 14 years, it’s time to say goodnight to my trusty T61 ThinkPad. It’s quite a testament to the qu...
• 10 Mar 2023

  OpenZFS is Awesome!

  I’ve been a long time OpenZFS user, and for the past couple of years it’s been pretty much the only file sys...
• 07 Jan 2023

  OpenRCT2 Available in bullseye-backports

  This week openrct2 was accepted into bullseye-backports; as such, I will no longer be hosting/providing openrct2 package...
• 03 Dec 2022

  A Debian Developer

  It’s been a bit over a month since becoming official, but I’m now a full-fledged Debian Developer! Greetings...
• 23 Sep 2022

  Return to Monkey Island

  Earlier this week, Return to Monkey Island was finally released on Steam and other platforms! Monday evening I started p...
• 11 Sep 2022

  LXD accepted into Debian

  Earlier today, LXD was accepted into Debian unstable! This completes the saga of getting LXD into Debian, and barring an...
• 04 Aug 2022

  lxd_5.0.0-1_amd64.changes is NEW

  LXD has finally been uploaded to the NEW queue! It’s been about nine months since I seriously started looking at g...
• 22 Jul 2022

  Some apt Repo Statistics

  I host a small, personal apt repo, primarily for my own use and convenience as I work on preparing packages for inclusio...
• 13 Jul 2022

  James Webb Space Telescope First Photos

  Southern Ring Nebula as imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope (credit to NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI) Yesterday we fin...
• 01 Apr 2022

  LXD Packaging Report, 5.0 LTS edition

  Progress on getting LXD packaged for Debian continues, although at a bit slower rate the past couple of months due to re...
• 25 Jan 2022

  A new Debian Maintainer

  As of today, it’s official – I’m now a Debian Maintainer! The following changes to the debian-maintain...
• 01 Jan 2022

  LXD Packaging Report, New Year's edition

  Happy 2022 everyone! This will be the year that LXD finally, properly lands in Debian. The packaging work for LXD is fai...
• 03 Dec 2021

  LXD Packaging Report, 32bit edition

  We’ll start today with a PSA: 32bit architectures still exist. Similar to C, golang has an int variable type whose...
• 02 Dec 2021

  OpenRCT2 Accepted into Debian

  Today, after 252 days in the NEW queue, OpenRCT2 was finally accepted into Debian! openrct2_0.3.4.1+ds-1_amd64.changes A...
• 21 Nov 2021

  LXD Packaging Report, Wild West edition

  Well, I’m calling this the “Wild West” edition of my LXD packaging report, as I have been reminded onc...
• 11 Nov 2021

  LXD Packaging Report, Nov 11

  A quick update on my progress of packaging all the dependencies for LXD in Debian. NEW packages pending ftpmaster review...
• 31 Oct 2021

  Marching on to LXD in Debian: First report

  Last week I began looking into the status of the long-lived ITP to get LXD properly into Debian. I’d really like i...
• 19 Sep 2021

  B-29 Doc in Albuquerque

  This weekend we had a bit of aviation history here in Albuquerque: the B-29 “Doc” was down at the Sunport. I...
• 13 Aug 2021

  LXD 4.0 LTS Properly Packaged for Debian bullseye

  In celebration of tomorrow’s release of Debian bullseye, I have updated my packaging of the LXD 4.0 LTS release an...
• 19 Apr 2021

  Ingenuity's First Flight

  Early this morning, Ingenuity successfully made its first flight…. pretty amazing! Oh, and that helicopter is Lin...
• 18 Apr 2021

  A Decade of Portal 2

  Hard to believe it’s been a full ten years since Portal 2 launched! It was one of a select number of items I&rsquo...
• 15 Apr 2021

  A Warning about the High Desert Amateur Radio Club

  This is something I never thought I’d have to write about, but due to the events of the past few weeks, I need to ...
• 24 Feb 2021

  Good (and Bad) Customer Service

  Over the past couple of weeks I’ve had a higher than normal number of interactions with various online companies. ...
• 22 Feb 2021

  Perseverance's Descent and Touchdown

  I think we might be living in the future… we’ve got a satellite (the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) snapping ...
• 11 Feb 2021

  UniFi AC Pro and IPv6 RAs

  For a while now, I’ve been running an IPv4/IPv6 dual stack network on my main wired LAN. IPv6 availability has com...
• 07 Feb 2021

  One Month Since the Capitol Insurrection

  Yesterday marked one month since insurrectionists stormed the US Capitol building. One month since the Confederate battl...
• 04 Feb 2021

  Shady Behavior from the RaspberryPi Foundation

  Well, the RaspberryPi Foundation burnt a lot of good will this week. For those who haven’t heard, they released an...
• 14 Jan 2021

  OpenRCT2 Packaged for Debian

  I’m happy to announce that OpenRCT2 is coming to Debian as a proper package – and the first that I’ve ...
• 01 Jan 2021

  Charitable Giving, Redux

  Well, 2020 went exactly as I had planned…. not. COVID-19 completely disrupted life, and put into even starker con...
• 01 Jan 2021

  In praise of the HDHomeRun

  Over 13 years ago, SiliconDust released the first of its HDHomeRun devices. These are pretty nifty network-attached TV t...
• 27 Dec 2020

  A RaspberryPi Stargate

  Here’s a pretty nifty project I saw recently!
• 12 Dec 2020

  SpaceX Starship SN8

  Scientific progress goes boink, er, boom!
• 05 Dec 2020

  I35 Emergency Landing

  A pretty impressive emergency landing – avoiding the light poles and cars on the highway. Luckily it sounds like e...
• 04 Dec 2020

  Arecibo Observatory collapse

  Following two cable breaks in November, this past Tuesday the radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory finally collaps...
• 19 Nov 2020

  SpaceX Crew-1 Recap

  We’re truly living in the future now, with commercial contract crews going to space!
• 08 Nov 2020

  Remembering Alex Trebek

  Who was an incredible host every week? Answer: Alex Trebek.
• 08 Nov 2020

  President-elect Joe Biden's Acceptance Speech

  It is such a breath of fresh air to have someone who can actually give a speech and is capable of carrying on a coherent...
• 07 Nov 2020

  Donald: You're Fired!

  I’ve been waiting a long time to say this: Donald, you’re fired! The Presidential race has finally been call...
• 31 Oct 2020

  SpaceX 100 Successful Launches

  Hard to believe SpaceX completed its 100th successful launch last week!
• 23 Oct 2020

  Go Vote!

  If you haven’t already done so – go and vote! If you’ve got an absentee ballot, get it in the mail soo...
• 20 Sep 2020

  Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• 13 Sep 2020

  Flying-V - scale model

  A pretty cool, non-traditional airplane model:
• 06 Sep 2020

  The Lord of the Rings Teaser Trailer

  Recently finished re-watching the three films – remember when the first teaser trailer came out?
• 09 Aug 2020

  SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2 Splashdown

  One week ago today, Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken arrived safely back on planet Earth, capping an amazing mission!
• 02 Aug 2020

  Perseverance Rover Launch

  Off to Mars!
• 26 Jul 2020

  Sherlock Ten Years Later

  So hard to believe it’s been a decade since Sherlock on BBC first premiered…
• 13 Jul 2020

  Remembering Ennio Morricone

  This past week one of my favorite contemporary composers passed away. Ennio Morricone composed scores for so many films,...
• 05 Jul 2020

  The Great Tribble Hunt

  From one of the best episodes of Deep Space Nine:
• 28 Jun 2020

  It's You I Like

  With all that’s going on in the world today, I think we all could use a moment of happiness.
• 31 May 2020

  SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2 ISS Docking

• 30 May 2020

  SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2 Launch

  Successful launch, first stage landing, and initial orbit for the Crew Dragon!
• 24 May 2020

  Good Omens: Lockdown

  Last May Amazon released an excellent adaptation of Good Omens that you should go watch after reading the book. A couple...
• 17 May 2020

  2017 Solar Eclipse from Homestead National Monument

  From the Before Times, when you could gather in large groups for things, like say a solar eclipse. Here’s a video ...
• 10 May 2020

  The Secret of Monkey Island

  Another great game if you’re looking for something to do while stuck in quarantine is The Secret of Monkey Island,...
• 03 May 2020

  Portal Stories: Mel

  If you’re stuck in quarantine and running out of things to do, here’s an incredibly well-done free add-on fo...
• 26 Apr 2020

  Remember when...

  Remember when we had a President who actually acted like a President? Someone who listened to their advisors and experts...
• 12 Apr 2020

  Apollo 13 50th Anniversary

  Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 13, and tomorrow will be the anniversary of the explosion ...
• 05 Apr 2020

  A Challenging Landing in Columbia

  That’s some pretty impressive flying!
• 28 Mar 2020

  Life's Not Fair -- Being Thankful in the Time of COVID-19

  That’s not fair! Last night the huge $2.2 trillion COVID-19 relief bill was finally signed into law. As has been e...
• 08 Mar 2020

  You Can Always Go Around

  Good advice when flying: you can always go around and try again.
• 16 Feb 2020

  Pale Blue Dot

  The past Friday marked the 30th anniversary of Voyager 1’s famous Pale Bule Dot photograph, so I thought Carl Saga...
• 11 Feb 2020

  Tracking the International Space Station

  My project this past weekend was utilizing an old RaspberryPi to build a simple tracker for the International Space Stat...
• 09 Feb 2020

  The Talos Principle

  If you enjoyed Portal, you’ll probably like The Talos Principle as well. It’s similar being a first-person p...
• 01 Feb 2020

  LEGO International Space Station

  A set I’ve been eagerly awaiting, the LEGO International Space Station is now available! The latest set from LEGO ...
• 31 Jan 2020

  Farewell to The Good Place

  Last night, the final episode of The Good Place aired, and we said goodbye to one of the best series in recent televisio...
• 26 Jan 2020

  Portal Teaser Trailer

  Remember when this game first came out? Some cool puzzles, but seemed kind of short… oh…. it isn’t o...
• 19 Jan 2020

  SpaceX Dragon Launch Escape Demonstration

  Well, looks like SpaceX had a successful launch escape test this morning of the Dragon capsule. One step closer to flyin...
• 03 Jan 2020

  Concerning LXD, snaps, and Debian

  I’ve been a long-time user of LXC, going all the way back to 2014. It’s come a long way and is a great conta...
• 01 Jan 2020

  Charitable Giving

  As a new year starts, and no, it’s not a new decade, the topic of new year’s resolutions is popular. While I...
• 29 Dec 2019

  OpenRCT2 on Debian

  Update 2021-01-14 I have packaged OpenRCT2 for inclusion in Debian; visit that post for more information. Manually build...
• 28 Dec 2019

  Hello, world!

  Hello, world. Happy Saturday.