A San Franciscan “Pueblo me llamo”

Politics Remains Local

It is just a couple of weeks until Election Day. I remain (professionally) focused on the San Francisco ballot—no choice in the matter, it’s my bread and butter1. That said, I did take a moment this evening to glance at the forecasts for the presidential election.

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ctrvx.net: A Central Virtual Extension into the Network

An edited generated pixel image of an old-school computer with the words CTRVX of the green screen

An edited generated pixel image of an old-school computer with the words CTRVX of the green screen

After much procrastination, I finally deployed a snac fediverse instance today. Snac (an acronym for social networks are crap) is a lightweight fediverse server written in C, the only programming language I still use. It is fast, has few dependencies, was simple to install and works well with some solid clients like Tusky and the Phanpy web client.

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Rarely seen together…

Rarely seen together: The Golden Gate Bridge and the northern lights. Taken this evening from the Marina Green, San Francisco.
Rarely seen together: The Golden Gate Bridge and the northern lights. Taken this evening from the Marina Green, San Francisco.