Justin Ribeiro, Ph.D.

We don't lack turntables. At last count, there are at least three in the house that get used and that doesn't count the one I have in my office. The funny thing is, I am fairly certain that we've never actually purchased a single one of these turntables;

From 2014 to 2022, Erik Isaksen, Danny Blue, Amal Hussein, Leon Revill, and myself produced 207 episodes of The Web Platform Podcast. It was a labor of love and admiration, talking to guests and discussing the standards that worked, the one's that we bein

Some time ago, tired of the endless updating of kid devices and the increasing amount of random device spam-I'm looking at you LG-I setup Pi-Hole as my networks end-all DNS server. If you're unfamiliar, Pi-Hole is a network-wide ad and tracking blocking s

There are few things worse than getting an alert notification from a server at night. Your mind races-is my redundancy working, should I grab a fire extinguisher-knowing that the glaring light of your SSH session in bed will wake your spouse. Then you'll

A friend recently noticed that I had added a curious link in footer of this very site- graveyard -which after browsing called me, on the telephone, with a delectable delight at the idea. How did I come up with the concept of memorializing and demonizing m

A more than usual amount of people, their opinions transformed into sage advice backed by hubris and the whispers of their AI-less reliable than whispers on the wind, which at least attest to the burning climate conditions we find ourselves in-have felt t

This is one of those snippets that is cheeky-useful when I'm in a pinch to test something but I don't have the code base. Well, or I just don't want to go through the steps of pulling the codebase, dealing with dependency hell, and then running a build th

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I don't hide my distaste for what LinkedIn has become; a long time ago, it was a nice address book compliment and now it lives under the zombie section of my graveyard . People ask "are you on LinkedIn?" and I respond "sure, if you consider Perl scripts r