Boonie Hat Musings

Bringing up AMPR net on Triton

Problem description: Bring up a connection to the AMPR network, and provide a way for running Triton instances on addressing provided by ampr.org. Long ago, in the stone age of the Internet, a block of IPv4 addresses were allocated for amateur radio use and experimentation. The current implementation of

An antenna made out of 3d printer parts

So, recently I decided to get into HF radio. Radio purchased. Amplifier, purchased. Antenna.... Well, I should build one. Links in this are where I got the parts from. Let's start with an easy band and an easy antenna. I hear 20m is simple enough. Time to make a 1/

Using Tasmota without a network

Using Tasmota in a completely offline configuration is extra special challenge. The use case was regularly operated events with no need for specific times. These are notes on how to accomplish that. Time based triggers do not fire until Tasmota thinks it has a valid clock. A valid clock is

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Debugging node with mdb

mdb with v8 support and node core files makes debugging crashes a lot easier.

Packing lighter for travel

or, "I regret every ounce I am carrying." I think this is working correctly. On my most recent trip, I decided to carry hand luggage only. Specifically, bags that have no wheels. And to limit it even more, when I left, I was only carrying one bag. Within a day,

Talks from 34c3 that I've enjoyed

Charles Stross: “Dude, you broke the future!” https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_you_broke_the_future Don’t worry about future AI, Slow moving AI is already here. Zooko: “cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, etc.: revolutionary tech?” https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9240-cryptocurrencies_smart_contracts_etc_revolutionary_tech An overview of

haproxy, chrome tcp preconnect, and error 408

This is my guide to making haproxy work reasonably with the deployment model I’m constructing. In broad strokes, I’m looking to have haproxy running on a host which is acting as an http and https front end for a large number of web servers living on a private

Overlay networks for fun and retrocomputing

For several years, a small group of friends and I have been considering building a private overlay network for operation of our more esoteric, old, or weird networking needs. The work once again fell by the wayside as life happens, but once again, the discussion came up. Rather than attempting

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Using Joyent's Triton for testing network hardware

Or, an amusing misuse of a cloud datacenter operating system. As a reminder, I’m using this product in an entirely weird way, and any thing I’ve listed below should not be seen as a shortcoming of the product. I’ve pushed this product to a weird edge, and

Chromebooks

I use Chromebooks. I do all sorts of weird things with computers, networks, systems, radios, etc. This leads me to building and maintaining all sorts of machines. I have no less than 4 independent full hardware virtualization technologies that I interact with on a daily basis. I find this annoying.

Single Board Computer Talk Notes

There’s a lot of small SBCs out there. Some people have seen them, some have used them, some have a SBC habit that’s reaching ‘gotta catch them all’. Given some of the co-workers hadn’t encountered this class of devices before, I was asked to give a general

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Bootstrapping Triton on whatever you can find

As part of my testing environment at work, I was provided some hardware to run Triton on. This isn’t the Joyent recommended hardware stack, but it meets many of the requirements, so it became a matter of getting it all up and running on this hardware. Other hardware was

Network wiring for the non networking geek

I’ve recently been asked by a friend about dealing with a home networking setup left semi functional by the previous occupant. This friend hasn’t done the wired ethernet networking thing before, and was looking for guidance and assistance in finding the useful tools and right parts. Actually doing