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All Blog Posts

Take a look at everything I’ve blogged about in the past.

2013

OpenVPN and ATA over Ethernet (AoE) interaction - February 25, 2013
Django syndication feed views and New Relic - February 14, 2013
IPv6 follow-up: OpenVPN transport over IPv6 - February 8, 2013
Concise summary query for pg_stat_statements - February 4, 2013

2012

MySQL and /tmp on tmpfs - April 30, 2012
Ten Years of Arch Linux - March 12, 2012
python-pgpdump, a PGP packet parser library - March 8, 2012
MySQL deadlocking on simple inserts - March 7, 2012
i18n console output in C - February 15, 2012

2011

Unstated coding style - December 21, 2011
Nginx memory usage with SSL - November 16, 2011
Disabling Firefox 7 trimmed URLs - September 28, 2011
The MySQL Syntax Dartboard - August 22, 2011
No Thanks, PayPal - August 22, 2011
C, unsigned integers, and the infinite for loop - July 19, 2011
Linux command of the day: slabtop - July 7, 2011
July 4th in Chicago - July 6, 2011
Arch Package Visualization - June 23, 2011
Making things IPv6 capable - June 8, 2011
How to not display floating point- a lesson from MySQL - May 17, 2011
Eee Kernel resurrected - April 23, 2011
The real story behind Arch Linux package signing - March 24, 2011
Firefox context menu switcharoo - March 23, 2011
Music metadata visualization in Python - March 22, 2011
Someone else did the pacman 3.5.0 blog post - March 17, 2011
Fast unicode decoding in Python 2.7 - February 27, 2011
The agony of simple things in MySQL - February 18, 2011
Django South graphmigrations - February 16, 2011
Freelancing in Chicago – Part 2 - January 20, 2011
Useful PostgreSQL schema diff tool - January 9, 2011
Handy command line tool of the day: csplit - January 4, 2011

2010

Python cached property decorator - December 10, 2010
Why I switched from lighttpd to nginx - December 8, 2010
Git smart HTTP transport on nginx - December 8, 2010
Non-required index statistics for PostgreSQL - October 26, 2010
Bye bye Slicehost, Hello Linode - October 3, 2010
MySQL fails to EXPLAIN - September 29, 2010
I got caught contributing to open source - September 27, 2010
Heat Stinks - September 22, 2010
Using Guppy to debug Django memory leaks - September 16, 2010
Three-way merging for git using vim - September 14, 2010
Recent Archweb Improvements - August 27, 2010
Freelancing in Chicago – Part 1 - August 25, 2010
Does anyone want to maintain the Eee kernel? - August 13, 2010
Thanks for the second wishlist book - July 28, 2010
ArchCon 2010 in the books - July 25, 2010
Off to the first-ever ArchCon - July 19, 2010
Pacman 3.4.0 release - June 17, 2010
Archweb DB Schema - June 3, 2010
StreamTheWorld radio streams from the command line - May 16, 2010
LaTeX résumé Follow-up - May 10, 2010
Retrieving photos from the iPhone in Linux - May 7, 2010
My Stand-Up Desk - May 5, 2010
Why I do my résumé in LaTeX - May 4, 2010
Git smart HTTP transport on lighttpd - March 21, 2010
More Archweb Work - March 10, 2010
Slicehost kernel 2.6.32 - February 19, 2010
Archweb gets a refresher - January 31, 2010
Where is my new kernel, Slicehost? - January 20, 2010
OSNews Arch Linux Team Interview - January 11, 2010
What's wrong with SVN - January 5, 2010

2009

GCC compound statement expressions - December 29, 2009
Trouble with sudoers (or last entry wins) - December 9, 2009
2.4 > 2.6 in OpenWrt - November 29, 2009
HP Mini 311 on the way - November 22, 2009
Blu-ray troubles with Pineapple Express - November 20, 2009
Netflix shipping locations - November 12, 2009
Slicehost kernel upgrade - November 1, 2009
New blog theme - October 21, 2009
ReadWriteWeb: hosters of unoriginal content - October 15, 2009
Comcast or Con-cast? - October 14, 2009
Eee Kernel 2.6.31.2-1 Update - October 6, 2009
Gmail + Netflix? - September 30, 2009
Eee Kernel Scheduler Tweaks - September 25, 2009
Arch Kernel Eee 2.6.31 built - September 9, 2009
SMS cleanup script for the iPhone - September 8, 2009
Epic fail - September 8, 2009
iPhone OS 3.0 SMS database layout changes - September 4, 2009
Delete lines between patterns with sed - August 23, 2009
Django Proxy Models - August 1, 2009
New Front Speakers - July 2, 2009
New Eee kernel has KMS enabled by default - June 23, 2009
Blu-ray player purchase - May 30, 2009
PostgreSQL thoughts and experiences - May 11, 2009
Why JS libraries are timesavers - May 10, 2009
Applying data-driven programming - May 4, 2009
My blog! Now with syntax highlighting! - May 4, 2009
Quick notes and thoughts - April 29, 2009
Cleaning out the Inbox - April 12, 2009
2.6.29.1 Arch Eee kernel out - April 8, 2009
Waiting a bit on the Eee kernel - March 28, 2009
iPhone SMS database hacking - March 28, 2009
Getting started with lighttpd and Django - February 23, 2009
Moved to Slicehost - February 22, 2009
Pacman 3.2.2 and what's ahead - January 7, 2009

2008

2.6.27.8 Eee kernel is out - December 7, 2008
My home theater and audio setup - November 18, 2008
Using your PC as a high-quality audio source - November 16, 2008
Updated Eee kernel to 2.6.27.6 - November 16, 2008
New Computer Pictures - October 23, 2008
Windows XP and AHCI on the ICH10 chipset - October 23, 2008
A new computer for me - October 23, 2008
2.6.27 kernel out for Eee - October 12, 2008
Onkyo receiver controller program - October 5, 2008
Git filter-branch magic - October 5, 2008
Django backend upgrade - September 2, 2008
Thanks for the book - September 2, 2008
Mime type woes hopefully solved - April 5, 2008
Arch Eee Repository - April 1, 2008
My new toy, the Eee PC - February 28, 2008
Road to pacman 3.2.0 - February 28, 2008
Valgrind 3.3.0 and the new massif - January 23, 2008
Pacman 3.1.0 release - January 9, 2008

2007

Using gcov for code coverage testing - December 2, 2007
Django Middleware Order - November 25, 2007
Using valgrind for C programming - November 18, 2007
Git workflow with pacman - August 15, 2007
Getting Django running on Dreamhost - July 23, 2007
First Post! - July 22, 2007