Evan Pratten

One of my favourite network devices in my posession is my Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X , a small router that I have been using to tunnel homelab traffic to-and-from my main network. While I'm quite a fan of this device, I found that some of Ubiquiti's opinions o

This past Canada Day, I spent some time in the middle of nowhere with some friends. Back in December, while on our way to a meeting in Toronto, Ethan and I had a long conversation about the feasibility of programatically launching fireworks with some inex

The Ableton Move is a great little music-making device, both because it is genuinely good at what it does, and because it runs a fairly open build of Linux! Out of pure curiousity, I decided to try getting Tailscale running on it while poking around the n

For whatever reason, I've long been interested in time synchronization technology. NTP in particular-being a fairly easily graspable ecosystem of networked servers-has been floating around in my head for a while, and nearly for the same amount of time, th

I've recently been on a little side-quest to use biometric-backed SSH keys in more places. This little rabbit hole came out of my work earlier this year on implantable SSH credentials(/blog/implant-backed-ssh), and some technology we've been experimenting

I recently discovered Fuzix while falling down a rabbit hole of reading about people's hobby operating systems. Since I had some supported hardware (a Raspberry Pi Pico) laying around, I figured I'd try it out for myself. Fuzix is a descendant of UZI (wit

Recently, I've set up a Minecraft server for my friends. Generally, we pick an interesting sounding modpack to play, or choose a recent-but-well-mod-supported version to use with client-side QoL mods. This time, I'm trying something different. This server

Today, I took some time to experiment with tension-based instruments in Ableton, and paired them with some spatial reverb plugins I've been building. Experiment #1 iframe style="width: 100%; height: auto; max-height: 90vh; aspect-ratio: 9/16; border-radiu

Over the past few months, a small group of us at work have been experimenting with the Jujutsu Version Control System. For many of us, it has managed to replace Git in our day-to-day workflows, and has integrated very well into existing internal processes

This past weekend, I watched my father perform at two local music nights. Friday: (Mostly) Free Jazz Saturday: The Magic Daffod...