An easy upgrade for my eyes and workspace

Welcome to 2022 and another year of remote work. Around the new year I decided it was time for me to upgrade my five-year-old monitor.

It's great until it sucks

Starting with Android 9 Pie, a new feature called “Private DNS” was introduced.

sudo get me a sandwich

Hey, who wants a sandwich? If you do – and if you live in the Austin area – here are some of my local favorites.

Ad blocking and privacy protection on the local network

Pi-hole is a free and open source program that provides ad blocking and tracker blocking to everything on your local network. It even works with smart devices, like my Roku streaming box.

Yo Ho Ho, Bitches

Seasons greetings.

I knocked 40% off my Amazon AWS bill by making less stupid choices

When I was a self-employed consultant, I spent hundreds of dollars a month on data center costs for my (non-production) R&D services – a legitimate business expense. These days, I still maintain server instances in the cloud. But now, they are a hobby cost that I pay out of pocket and I want to be frugal with that.

tl;dr: avoid Wi-Fi

If you are into home automation – lights, locks, thermostats – a trap lies in wait.

A domain name that is older than the commercial Internet

Over thirty years ago, I established UNICOM.COM as my identity on the net. Today, that chapter has closed.