Darth Null

I've been listening to the Accidental Tech Podcast for years. They recently had a members-only special about the technology they use for their personal websites. Building customized, Rube Goldberg-esque systems for managing a website is a time-honored tim

This is a quick update. Yes. I know I say that a lot (or at least, I certainly think it when I start a post). This one really will be quick. First, background. My main computer, a 2018 Intel Mac Mini, has been having its internal drive fill up. Regularly.

A few days ago, as I write this, Kelly Guimont posted the following question : Let's say you have a data set made up of a selection of songs by one artist. Let's also say you want to slice and dice information from said dataset like how many songs come fr

Disk Usage Woes: Day… whatever . How long has it been since I installed macOS Sequoia? I've been struggling with the disk constantly filling up on my Mac Mini. See my last two posts for a deep and wonky dive into the situation, and lots of data collection

My main day-to-day machine is a 2018 Mac Mini. Over the last year, and especially the last 6 months, it's been a struggle to keep adequate space free. About two weeks ago, I'd had enough, and went on a deep dive to figure out what was wrong. In my last po

My everyday desktop is a 2018 Mac Mini. Last summer, I started noticing that some apps would crash overnight, mostly Ivory (my Mastodon client). I assumed it was a memory thing. My disk space wasn't great, but I had like 5 gigabytes or so free on the 256

Nine years ago, I migrated all my local house storage from a massive Dell with Debian and software RAID, onto a tiny little Synology NAS. Well, not exactly tiny, but probably 1/3 of the volume of the Dell. It serves as a file server, Time Machine target,

A few days ago, I wrote about what GreyNoise have been calling "Noise Storms," extended periods of high-volume ping traffic detected by many of their sensors, coming from…many different sources. The most intriguing of these were packets with the word "LOV

Earlier this month, I attended BSidesNoVA in Arlington, where the keynote was presented by Andrew Morris of GreyNoise. Using sensors distributed all over the world, GreyNoise collects…background noise…on the Internet. Basically, they watch and monitor act

Back in 2018, I was fortunate enough to join a company called Expel. It had a great culture, friendly management with a real desire to do what's right for customers and employees, and a product that seemed to fill a real need - and to fill it well. Being