I maintain (to greater or lesser extents) 3 blogs currently: https://blog.warrenmyers.com https://paragraph.cf https://antipaucity.com I keep the first and last segmented so I can more easily find things I’ve written or reposted about Christianity, religion, and the Bible, and everything else. The middle one I keep to demo the WordPress plugin I wrote – Paragraph. But …
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sweetree.ga – the newest mastodon instance
After months years of threatening, I’ve finally removed one item from my round tuit plate: https://sweetree.ga is the latest Mastodon instance in the fediverse. There are still a few bugs to iron-out of this instance, but it’s live, and I’m – once-again – tooting. Come follow me – @warrenmyers@sweetree.ga In the coming days, fully-automated registrations …
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a few selected horizon points
Based on some slightly simplified math, here are approximate distances to an uninterrupted horizon from various viewing heights: 6 feet – slightly-above-average human eye level: 3 miles 20 feet – top of the roof of a typical one-story house: 5.5 miles 50 feet – short hill / top of a tree or boom truck: 8.7 …
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a lot of travel
Over the past month, and through the end of March, I’ve done, and will be doing, a lot of travel for work. Nothing I haven’t done before, but it’s been a long time since I’ve had to be onsite for more than a couple weeks at a time – most customer leap at the chance …
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on entropy, password/passphrase complexity, and if you’ve been part of a data breach (spoiler alert: you have)
I wrote an article on passwords, passphrases, entropy, and data breaches for my employer’s blog: https://augustschell.com/passwords-passphrases-complexity-length-crackability-memorability-data-breaches
simple ip address check – ipv4.cf
I’ve published another super-simple tool. A la whatismyip.com, but with no extra cruft (and no queer formatting of the IP address under the hood), welcome IPv4.cf to the world with me!
i wrote a thing – paragraph, a simple plugin for wordpress
Along with becoming more active on Mastodon, I’ve been thinking more about concision recently. One of the big selling points for Mastodon is that the character limit per post is 500 instead of Twitter’s 140. And I was thinking, “what if there was a way to force you to write better by writing less / …
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circus
“Ladies and Gentlemen. Boys and Girls. Children of ALL ages. Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey’s Circus is proud to present … GUNTHER .. GABLE .. WILLIAMS!!!” Is about all I recall in vivid detail from when I went to see the RB&B&B circus as a kid with my parents, aunt, and friends. (And, as …
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vampires vs zombies
A few years ago I wrote about why I like good vampire and zombie stories. I had an epiphany this week related to that, that I thought you’d all find interesting. If vampires exist, zombies can not exist [long] in the same universe. Why? Because they’d be eliminating the only source of food for the …
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new service – free, secure password generation
Today, I am formally announcing a brand-new service / website for secure password generation. Go visit password.cf Get yourself random passwords of commonly-required lengths and complexities*. Password Varieties: 4 of 4 upper & lower alphanumeric lower alphanumeric Lengths generated: 12, 16, & 24 characters Visit the {{GitHub}} project page .. .. if you want to …
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helping a magpierss-powered site perform better
I rely on MagpieRSS to run one of my websites. (If you'd like to see the basic code for the site, see my {{GitHub}} profile.) One of the drawbacks to Magpie, and dynamic websites in general, is they can be bottlenecked by external sources – in the case of Magpie, those sources are the myriad …
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Haggai begins
After finishing Acts last Saturday, we are moving into the post-exhilic prophets, starting with Haggai. It promises to be yet another engaging time of study for my men’s group.
it’s been 4.5 years
Since I last changed hosts. I’m sticking with the same provider, but making a pretty big jump – from {{CentOS}} 6 to 7, from 2TB to 4TB storage, and 16GB to 64GB RAM. Theoretically, you wouldn’t know this had changed at all unless you happened to catch it in the few seconds between DNS pointing …
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ssa, meet irs; irs, meet ssa
As you know, we adopted our second son last year (which finalized in Dec – woohoo!). A couple weeks ago, we received Zeb’s birth certificate (which needs to be processed after an adoption), and applied for his SSN. Earlier this week his brand spankin’ new SSN card arrived – so I got down to finishing …
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haiku appliance
I have been a fan of Haiku for years – and BeOS since way back in the 90s. I run a Haiku mirror, and try to pay attention to the project’s updates. Today I am making available a Haiku-OS r1 alpha 4.1 virtual appliance! Download it from me here (created in {{VirtualBox}}, but in .ova format, so …
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happy 65th
My dad turns 65 today. Congratulations! You can retire… or not – whatever floats your boat 🙂
Renovation’s first worship service
It was super exciting to have our first worship service at Renovation Church this past Sunday night! I cannot wait to see how God uses us in this city!
Acts 16
It’s been quite some time since I wrote anything on this blog. We’ve been steadily progressing through Acts in my men’s Bible study group – finishing chapter 15 this past Saturday. What a true joy it is to have a group of men you can study, discuss, and learn from (and with) in Christ! There …
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happy 60th birthday
My mom turns 60 today. Congratulations 🙂
welcome, zebediah!
We got to meet the latest addition to our family a few days ago, on the 5th. For the second time in under a year, we had the last-minute opportunity to adopt a baby boy. Last year we welcomed a 3.5 month-old, and this year we have a newborn. He’s had some complications, and been …
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vision for lexington
Over the past 5 years, I have witnessed some of the growth Lexington KY has started to undergo. From a population in the city proper of about 260,000 in 2000 to 295,000 in 2010 to an estimated 315,000 in 2015, While there seems to be something of a plan/vision for the downtown area, the majority of …
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hey yahoo! sports – why not always post the magic number for every team?
Since the magic number (and I’ll take the example of baseball, because while I don’t get to watch them much, I do follow the Mets) is so easy to calculate, why not post it on the standings as soon as there have been games played? This would be a good use of technology relative to baseball …
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why do i use digital ocean?
Besides the fact that I have a referral code, I think Digital Ocean has done a great job of making an accessible, affordable, cloud environment for folks (like me) to spin-up and -down servers for trying new things out. You can’t beat an average of 55 seconds to get a new server. There are other …
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create your own clustered cloud storage system with moosefs and pydio
This started-off as a how-to on installing ownCloud. But their own installation procedures don’t work for the 8.0x release and {{CentOS}} 6. Most of you know I’ve been interested in distributed / cloud storage for quite some time. And that I find MooseFS to be fascinating. As of 2.0, MooseFS comes in two flavors – the …
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bglug presentation – 04 aug 2014 – basics of initial centos/rhel 6.x server configuration
Attached is the presentation for my talk on initial CentOS/RHEL 6.x server configuring. bglug-2014-08-04-myers