A blog of rants, screeds, and other nonsense

I have 2 big announcements!

The Usenix LISA conference is no more. After 35 years, I have a lot of good (and some not good) memories of the conference. It was a big part of my career and I’m sad to see it go. However I’m proud of what LISA accomplished.

I wrote my personal reflections on the conference in a new article published on the Usenix website. Warning: this article includes some over-sharing.

Read it here: LISA made LISA obsolete (That’s a compliment!)

You may have read Run Stable Diffusion on your M1 Mac’s GPU. (The Linux equivalent is here.)

Here are a few code changes you might wish to make:

This is a “face-palm – why didn’t we think of this earlier?” situation that I thought I’d share. Maybe it will help someone else.

Facebook/Meta’s VR will fail.

A friend of mine dug up this Facebook post that I wrote in 2016. I hate when I’m right.

Biden is actually doing an amazing job but he’s being humble. This will cost him the election. He needs to start boasting.

Headline: Mayo Clinic fires 700 employees for knowingly bringing harmful biological substances to work.

One of the most cynical tactics of GOPers is to make public statements recommending bad advice for Democrats. Then reporters join in and start repeating this bad advice. Soon there is a groundswell of support for this bad advice and the Democrats are tempted to cave. The GOPers cackle as they watch the Democrats fall into their trap.

Want some examples?

Here are my rules for using Cisco WebEx.

I have to blog this so that when people say “that can’t be true” I can point to this blog post.

I got sick and tired video conferences being delayed by audio problems. I know that a lot of times it is a problem on my end, but I think everyone has had audio problems. How did I fix it? I got rid of any feature that caused me trouble until I had a trouble-free headset experience. Spoiler alert: I had to eliminate nearly all features. The purpose of this blog post is to provide links so that people can purchase the same equipment I now use.

Senator Cory Booker just did something awesome.

That’s Numberwang!

I’m not going to try to explain.

VMware’s WorkspaceOne has an annoying feature on macOS where every time it does an update you get a notification. This steals my cursor, interrupts my work, and breaks my concentration.

I keep hearing people misuse metaphors, or say them incorrectly. Here’s a list of them.

I’m considering building a website that lists metaphors and their correct use. In the meanwhile, this blog post will have to do.

What does “n.n.n.n.” do in Vim?

You’ve probably read about HBO’s ‘Integration Test’ Email. Just what is an “Integration test”?

Years ago a co-worker noticed something about our company’s disability policy.

I’m considering switching to Todoist. Here are my notes as I try to use the techniques in Time Management for System Administrators which are collectively called The Cycle.

I no longer fill out customer support surveys.

Do you WANT to get paid?

Looking for SRE’s with experience in the Microsoft stack!

This is my webpage for tracking teleco executives trying to ruin the internet.

Thanks to my MIL’s exhaustive genealogy research, I can now say with certainty that my house was built by Alexander Hamilton’s wife’s third cousin twice removed.

Dear Senator Joe Manchin,

Here’s my thinking…

To the person on Redit who called the Brexit plan obviously poorly concocted.

What is yak shaving?