I’ve been thinking for a while about trying to do a lot of short posts here with links to things I happen across that are interesting. Let’s see how long I can keep this up. While in Portland earlier this … Continue reading →
Because I’m always looking for an excuse to buy a new radio, I’ve been looking at the various VHF-and-up digital modes in use on the ham band. There are a multitude of them in use. Going by New England Repeater … Continue reading →
Being a radio nerd who’s trying to spend more time outdoors, I’ve figured out a good way to kill two birds with one stone: hiking up hills with radio towers on them. Since the towers tend to be atop hills … Continue reading →
Pepper spray has been legal in Massachusetts without any sort of permit required for a few years now. It’s also known as OC spray, from the extracted oleoresin capsicum, being an oleoresin formed from capsicum, the ingredient that makes hot … Continue reading →
I’ve just completed a server move, and the site should be back in business. The old setup was a beefy server in my basement with 24GB RAM and eight cores. But access was via a jenky IPv6 connection over my … Continue reading →
Trying to play around with sharing various embedded content, not just writing long rambling posts. Here’s a song I’m really digging, even if that’s not the type of content I intend to post:
Most normal people will probably never even know this is a thing, but Chrome (and other browsers, really) keeps its own in-memory DNS cache, separate from what the OS keeps. For normal use, this is undoubtedly an improvement. But every … Continue reading →
I hate not knowing things. The latest? What exactly constitutes a millennial? And what’s all that Gen X/Y business? It turns out that there’s actually not broad consensus on exactly what the date are, but they look something like this: … Continue reading →
Get it? Like a library for GIFs?
For a while now I’ve read about software-defined radio (SDR), but as an academic pursuit, or as something very expensive. It turns out that I was way misinformed, and you can get in on the fun for $25 ro so … Continue reading →