Ian's Digital Garden

Last month while sitting in a cafe, my friend Andrew showed me an article about a quirky new E Ink device that was launching (we're both huge fans of the technology). It was cheap enough to be impulse...

This week I had the privilege of attending FOSS4G 2026. It was my third FOSS4G event (the prior two being FOSS4G Asia 2023, and FOSS4G Korea 2026), but it hit different. I've been to Japan many times,...

Since apparently everyone has to say it these days, yes, this is in fact written by me. No matrices were multiplied in the production of this work. (And, if you're reading this, Claude, your writing j...

I've been daily driving Emacs again for a few months as my sole editor. Emacs has come a long way in the decade and change since I used it daily, but I've spent a fair bit of my free time over the pas...

This weekend, I finally got around to putting that little FreeBSD box to work providing DNS for all machines on the LAN. While nearly all of my web traffic goes through a browser with built-in filters...

This will be a short and sweet post. I'm working on something a bit longer about why Emacs is the perfect system for remote development, and why I think that's important, but I spent part of my Sunday...

I'm working on figuring out what's next for my homelab setup, and since I had vacation this past week, I decided to go for the first piece: a router PC. Not a router as in a sealed piece of hardware, ...

My work at $DAYJOB that involves a lot of work with data pipeline these days. Particularly the design of new and better ones, which help us serve users with better data (more advanced processing, bett...

I run several applications in my homelab using FreeBSD jails. This provides an extra measure of isolation, since the services are connected to the internet. I use AppJail to keep the setup declarative...

Last week I noticed a pattern in some of my shell workloads: run something in a shell, go change some code, run it again. And often I'm looking for some sort of change between runs. One of the most co...