About Brian
sometimes stereotypical, but never ironic.Twitter Feed
- RT @twrling: .@OaklandPrivacy sends letter objecting to @PalantirTech sponsorship of #privacy law conference #PLSC at #UCBerkeley. "Palanti… 6 hours ago
- @greatevil Discovered *after* I disassembled my entire modular rack, of course. 8 hours ago
- @greatevil In the freaking usb cable of my focusrite audio interface. 8 hours ago
- @bryanl Yup. 9 hours ago
- "Music will be a nice break from debugging computers and processes at work all week" ... "spends all Sunday trying… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 9 hours ago
Author Archives: taotetek
Blog moved to http://oldschool.systems.
Just a heads up that I’m moving my blogging to my new blog at http://oldschool.systems/ . I’m now using Hugo to manage my blog and I find it’s workflow much more comfortable than here.
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Revisit.Link
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been spending some of my free time hacking on gorevisit, a golang microframework for making services for Revisit.link. Revisit.link is an image mutation service started by my friend Edna Piranha in order to … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
The Edge Net and Why Projects Like This Matter
My original intention with this blog was to focus just on the technical. However, the recent revelations about the scope of the intrusion of various nation’s intelligence agencies into the fabric of the internet itself makes it impossible to be … Continue reading
Ethical System Administration
I started out in this industry in the mid 90s. My first system / network administration job was at a medium sized local insurance company. For a non tech company in the mid 90s, we had a pretty impressive infrastructure. … Continue reading
Posted in prism, ramblings
Leave a comment
I love velcro
This weekend I spent some time neatening up my home office. I covered the top of a shelf with velcro, and then put velcro on the bottoms of various small electronics (raspberry pi’s, my intel nuc, usb hubs, etc). It’s … Continue reading
Playing with Kinect and ZeroMQ Part 2
In the previous post I briefly outlined writing a simple tool to pull data off of a kinect, and pass the buffers into zeromq frames for transmission. In this post I’m going to go over the other side of the … Continue reading
Playing with Kinect and ZeroMQ Part 1
I was looking for something fun to play with in order to start experimenting with sending “binary” (non string) data over zeromq. I realized I had a Microsoft Kinect laying around that no one was really using anymore, so I … Continue reading
