internet

John Levine, one of the OG Morlocks of the internet, notes that he has the world’s lamest content farm.

Adriana Porter Felt is a Director of Engineering at Google. She knows what she’s talking about.

Google notified me that 1,000 cellphones have viewed my review of a parking lot!

I have a grudge against spammers, SEO, and similar low-lifes. When and where I run Internet-facing web servers, I send “SEO search engines” down an infinite rabbit hole of web pages and images.

I keep noticing articles or posts with titles like “N lessons from Napoleon on X”, where N is usually 10, and X has values of “productivity”, “life”, “career”, “management”, vague things like that.

I was so inspired by seeing these valuable lessons, that I wrote Career and life lessons from meatloaf as an homage.

Here’s 10 “Lessons from Napoleon” posts to prove that taking lessons from meatloaf isn’t all that odd.

A 200 page action story from leftist Heinlein Cory Doctorow.

My theory about email spammers.

Is cyberpunk 25-year olds with brain implants, standing on a downtown streetcorner in the rain, trenchcoat pulled close against the chill, smoking a nootropic cigarette?

As I’ve written before, now that I’ve retired, I can devote time to my hobbies. I’ve set up a “home lab”, what we home computer enthusiasts call our computer and router setups. This is different than gamer’s “rigs”, in that a “server” is required, and it’s not allowed to have disturbingly-illuminated keyboards and cases. The aesthetic is completely different.

We often try to emulate corporate data centers by purchasing depreciated business-class machines from refurbishers.

Here’s my homelab: