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The deck is finished and in service. It holds full 2.4 GHz with the lid shut, runs about six hours on the internal pack, carries 123 GB of offline reference on an NVMe, and brings up a complete ham stack from one switch. No network and no mains required. This is in three parts: the […]
How I turned a hand-tuned laptop setup into a reproducible, CI-built OS image and the dozen small things that fought back. Why bother I daily-drive a Framework 13 (AMD Ryzen) a 2256×1504 panel at roughly 200 DPI, which means everything runs at fractional scale. For a long time it ran Aurora DX (Universal Blue’s KDE…
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How I built iid-mcp: an MCP server that puts a private SailPoint IdentityIQ codebase in front of Claude Code, Copilot, and Claude Desktop, so they stop guessing. I write a lot of SailPoint IdentityIQ code: rules, workflows, tasks, plugins, and XML configs that an importer validates against a DTD with more than a thousand elements.…
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I work across too many contexts at once. Three email accounts. Two calendars. Work Teams. Personal Slack. A Gitea instance for side projects. Home Assistant watching over a thousand devices. Notes in Joplin. Tasks scattered across wherever I dumped them last week. For years I tried to manage this with dashboards, integrations, and sheer willpower. […]
In 2023 The Band Anna played its last show and I feel we went out on top. Opening in Irwin’s annual “Gig On Main” show that was headline by the Clarks we played a full set IN THE POURING RAIN to an increasingly larger and more enthusiastic crowd. The Band Anna was:– Brianna Acalotto – […]
I’ve recently finished A Better Human, the debut novel from J Donald (if you’ve watched any of the videos on my music page, he’s the other guitarist), and I was blown away by how good this is. When I read novels, I like to mentally slot them into genre tropes, and this one subverted my […]
I made a WordPress theme (you are soaking in it) to match the aesthetics of my Directory Master program, which in turn lovingly appropriated the idea from the old DOS Norton Utilities program (which, along with Wordperfect 5.1 represents the pinnacle of user interface design, it’s been downhill since). Here is a screenshot of what […]
For a long time, I had an ART ECC 1 as my multi effects pedal. Around 2008 I decided I wanted to start using individual analog pedals. Over the decades (ugh) I have taken sporadic snapshots of the pedalboard before certain gigs or after major renovations and so I present here: the evolution of my […]