Toots | Brandon Rozek https://brandonrozek.com/toots/index.json Toots | Brandon Rozek https://brandonrozek.com/toots/index.json https://brandonrozek.com/img/avatar.jpg Brandon's Toots from Mastodon Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) Sun, 11 Jan 2026 23:16:43 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) Wikipedia turns 25 this upcoming Thursday πŸŽ‚ 🎈 πŸŽ‰

meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:

Here's to another 25 years!

]]> Wikipedia turns 25 this upcoming Thursday πŸŽ‚ 🎈 πŸŽ‰

meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:

Here's to another 25 years!

]]> Sat, 26 Jul 2025 15:56:50 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) The polls are now open over at USPS to determine which forever stamp to bring back.

stampsforever.com/vote

The stamps that they make are always cool and it's great to see recognition for some of the earlier designs.

]]> The polls are now open over at USPS to determine which forever stamp to bring back.

stampsforever.com/vote

The stamps that they make are always cool and it's great to see recognition for some of the earlier designs.

]]> Tue, 15 Apr 2025 03:12:42 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) @p Thanks! Let me know once you have it up so that I can check it out :)

]]> @p Thanks! Let me know once you have it up so that I can check it out :)

]]> Thu, 30 Jan 2025 03:17:13 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) Blog Question Challenge: Complete! Thanks @markpitblado for the tag ⚑

brandonrozek.com/blog/blog-que

]]> Blog Question Challenge: Complete! Thanks @markpitblado for the tag ⚑

brandonrozek.com/blog/blog-que

]]> Sun, 05 Jan 2025 16:50:02 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) Sun, 05 Jan 2025 01:12:26 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) @ejk Gotta fill out the hobbydex!

]]> @ejk Gotta fill out the hobbydex!

]]> Sun, 05 Jan 2025 01:10:48 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) After trying multiple techniques for thickening fruit smoothies, I've settled on more frozen fruit. Crazy right?

]]> After trying multiple techniques for thickening fruit smoothies, I've settled on more frozen fruit. Crazy right?

]]> Fri, 03 Jan 2025 20:29:01 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) @timorl Yeah I got the same print error as before. I did some digging around and was able to get the original document to print using the `hp-print` terminal command.

Printers :blobcatshrug:

]]> @timorl Yeah I got the same print error as before. I did some digging around and was able to get the original document to print using the `hp-print` terminal command.

Printers :blobcatshrug:

]]> Fri, 03 Jan 2025 19:58:20 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) @timorl Unfortunately that technique didn't work for this PDF 😭

Thanks for the suggestion though!

]]> @timorl Unfortunately that technique didn't work for this PDF 😭

Thanks for the suggestion though!

]]> Fri, 03 Jan 2025 15:21:20 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) Printing a draft of my paper and my printer is giving me a weird error message :blobthinkingeyes:

]]> Printing a draft of my paper and my printer is giving me a weird error message :blobthinkingeyes:

]]> Sun, 29 Dec 2024 15:31:46 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) @steffo The 27 GBs is secretly a bunch of zeros πŸ˜‚

]]> @steffo The 27 GBs is secretly a bunch of zeros πŸ˜‚

]]> Sun, 29 Dec 2024 15:22:18 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) Inspired by @jedda my postroll is now live! I'll regularly update the page with cool blog posts that I've read around the web.

brandonrozek.com/postroll/

]]> Inspired by @jedda my postroll is now live! I'll regularly update the page with cool blog posts that I've read around the web.

brandonrozek.com/postroll/

]]> Thu, 19 Dec 2024 03:24:50 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) @markpitblado Before using Hugo, I ran my site on WordPress. Not all posts from that era transitioned well....

May we both become a better person!

]]> @markpitblado Before using Hugo, I ran my site on WordPress. Not all posts from that era transitioned well....

May we both become a better person!

]]> Thu, 19 Dec 2024 03:06:51 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) @markpitblado Thanks for the link back! I just used lychee for the first time and found 41 dead links >.<

]]> @markpitblado Thanks for the link back! I just used lychee for the first time and found 41 dead links >.<

]]> Sun, 08 Dec 2024 18:38:27 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) I've been experimenting with one of my domains recently and this is what my monitoring service has to say about it:

πŸ”₯ 97.32% uptime 😐 0.79 apdex

It's a good thing that this is a hobby website, otherwise many people will be unhappy!

]]> I've been experimenting with one of my domains recently and this is what my monitoring service has to say about it:

πŸ”₯ 97.32% uptime 😐 0.79 apdex

It's a good thing that this is a hobby website, otherwise many people will be unhappy!

]]> Sat, 07 Dec 2024 01:33:07 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) Sat, 30 Nov 2024 03:18:12 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) For some reason I had CPUQuote instead of CPUQuota in my systemd units. Whoops.

]]> For some reason I had CPUQuote instead of CPUQuota in my systemd units. Whoops.

]]> Thu, 28 Nov 2024 20:47:19 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) @MHS_Jenkins My biggest use case for Nextcloud is creating share links for files. They let you password protect and even only make files available for a given time period.

]]> @MHS_Jenkins My biggest use case for Nextcloud is creating share links for files. They let you password protect and even only make files available for a given time period.

]]> Thu, 28 Nov 2024 20:31:46 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) @notptr Gotcha, thanks for sharing. This sounds like a good way of testing the regex interactively before automating it with a script.

]]> @notptr Gotcha, thanks for sharing. This sounds like a good way of testing the regex interactively before automating it with a script.

]]> Thu, 28 Nov 2024 20:15:02 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) @notptr Out of curiosity, what is a common way you edit text using regex?

]]> @notptr Out of curiosity, what is a common way you edit text using regex?

]]> Thu, 28 Nov 2024 18:43:17 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) First winter snow ❄️

]]> First winter snow ❄️

]]> Wed, 27 Nov 2024 02:35:32 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) According to my Nginx log file, the operating systems of those visiting my website:

31% Windows
22% MacOS
22% Linux

Linux may not be first place, but it's more than 5x the average percentage. This must be the year of the Linux desktop.

]]> According to my Nginx log file, the operating systems of those visiting my website:

31% Windows
22% MacOS
22% Linux

Linux may not be first place, but it's more than 5x the average percentage. This must be the year of the Linux desktop.

]]> Tue, 26 Nov 2024 02:56:08 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) @nunesgh

It's interesting looking at the list of feeds [1] RSSParrot already follows. From that I'm finding services I haven't heard of before like siftrss.com and rsshub.app

[1] rss-parrot.net/web/feeds

]]> @nunesgh

It's interesting looking at the list of feeds [1] RSSParrot already follows. From that I'm finding services I haven't heard of before like siftrss.com and rsshub.app

[1] rss-parrot.net/web/feeds

]]> Sat, 19 Oct 2024 20:07:07 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) Tue, 15 Oct 2024 03:55:36 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) @elforesto Do you clear out the dead feeds from your reader?

I end up leaving them in for the off chance that people come back.

]]> @elforesto Do you clear out the dead feeds from your reader?

I end up leaving them in for the off chance that people come back.

]]> Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:25:04 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) Sat, 08 Jun 2024 16:09:59 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) Syncing notes through bookmarks with Notepad Tab is such a neat idea!

Thanks @revolteh for creating this!

notepadtab.com/

]]> Syncing notes through bookmarks with Notepad Tab is such a neat idea!

Thanks @revolteh for creating this!

notepadtab.com/

]]> Mon, 29 Jan 2024 00:00:02 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) I feel like we need more mini-games on the pubnixes so I developed WordGuess a wordle-based game.

brandonrozek.com/blog/wordgues

It's currently up on tilde.club where once a day players can guess the word and compare scores with other players.

]]> I feel like we need more mini-games on the pubnixes so I developed WordGuess a wordle-based game.

brandonrozek.com/blog/wordgues

It's currently up on tilde.club where once a day players can guess the word and compare scores with other players.

]]> Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:15:33 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) I'm having fun distracting myself with the robots.txt of major websites thanks to Oggy.

ognjen.io/using-robots-txt-to-

Like why does the verge not want to index the iPhone 15 event? πŸ€”

]]> I'm having fun distracting myself with the robots.txt of major websites thanks to Oggy.

ognjen.io/using-robots-txt-to-

Like why does the verge not want to index the iPhone 15 event? πŸ€”

]]> Wed, 17 Jan 2024 01:43:01 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) Discovered that my favorite search engine Kagi πŸ”Ž has a page where you can explore smaller personal websites 🌐

kagi.com/smallweb/

]]> Discovered that my favorite search engine Kagi πŸ”Ž has a page where you can explore smaller personal websites 🌐

kagi.com/smallweb/

]]> Tue, 02 Jan 2024 03:29:45 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) Discovered that I can listen to the community edit Wikipedia in real-time over at Hatnote 🎡

listen.hatnote.com/#

Smoothing and great to listen to in the background.

]]> Discovered that I can listen to the community edit Wikipedia in real-time over at Hatnote 🎡

listen.hatnote.com/#

Smoothing and great to listen to in the background.

]]> Mon, 01 Jan 2024 19:23:23 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) First day hike complete!

Peebles Island 🏝️, New York

]]> First day hike complete!

Peebles Island 🏝️, New York

]]> Fri, 15 Dec 2023 20:51:24 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) Sun, 03 Dec 2023 20:16:51 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) @jefklak it makes you wonder where all the human-power went.

]]> @jefklak it makes you wonder where all the human-power went.

]]> Sun, 03 Dec 2023 18:13:36 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) Great quote from Manu

"Don’t be afraid of sending an email to someone you don’t know. If someone’s out there on the web, it probably means they want to be found."

manuelmoreale.com/more-new-min

]]> Great quote from Manu

"Don’t be afraid of sending an email to someone you don’t know. If someone’s out there on the web, it probably means they want to be found."

manuelmoreale.com/more-new-min

]]> Tue, 19 Sep 2023 20:05:54 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) Kristof Kovacs wrote a script that emulates lineinfile from Ansible.

Now I don't need to open up a whole text editor to edit one line in a configuration file.

kkovacs.eu/ansible-lineinfile-

]]> Kristof Kovacs wrote a script that emulates lineinfile from Ansible.

Now I don't need to open up a whole text editor to edit one line in a configuration file.

kkovacs.eu/ansible-lineinfile-

]]> Fri, 21 Jul 2023 01:50:34 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) @nathan @legoktm Wow! I haven't heard of WikiVoyage before this. It's fun to see Fredericksburg, VA, the small city I used to live in, there. Thanks for sharing!

]]> @nathan @legoktm Wow! I haven't heard of WikiVoyage before this. It's fun to see Fredericksburg, VA, the small city I used to live in, there. Thanks for sharing!

]]> Thu, 13 Jul 2023 02:36:11 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) @shom After 30 minutes, I'm stuck on level 7. You did well getting passed it, I'm having a hard time to get it to respond to even totally normal prompts XD

]]> @shom After 30 minutes, I'm stuck on level 7. You did well getting passed it, I'm having a hard time to get it to respond to even totally normal prompts XD

]]> Thu, 13 Jul 2023 01:36:43 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) Thu, 13 Jul 2023 01:22:39 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) @steffo@uno.starshard.studio I agree that there are a lot of different extensions to the standard.

At the very least it should display the plaintext. Hopefully that's readable enough.

]]> @steffo@uno.starshard.studio I agree that there are a lot of different extensions to the standard.

At the very least it should display the plaintext. Hopefully that's readable enough.

]]> Thu, 13 Jul 2023 01:21:28 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) For the curious, it seems that the acronym was first discussed in a scientific paper about data reuse.

nature.com/articles/sdata20161

]]> For the curious, it seems that the acronym was first discussed in a scientific paper about data reuse.

nature.com/articles/sdata20161

]]> Thu, 13 Jul 2023 01:20:12 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) "Apart from its simplicity, the markdown format is FAIR: findable, accessible, interoperable, and re-usable"

- Arthur Turrel
aeturrell.com/blog/posts/til-z

All parts of Markdown that I love, and now I know of a great acronym to use to describe it!

]]> "Apart from its simplicity, the markdown format is FAIR: findable, accessible, interoperable, and re-usable"

- Arthur Turrel
aeturrell.com/blog/posts/til-z

All parts of Markdown that I love, and now I know of a great acronym to use to describe it!

]]> Fri, 28 Apr 2023 17:56:14 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) @hebster Good question! I don't have a great way of knowing for sure since an encrypted email using that form looks the same as a standard one. Though honestly I only get a small handful of encrypted emails every year.

]]> @hebster Good question! I don't have a great way of knowing for sure since an encrypted email using that form looks the same as a standard one. Though honestly I only get a small handful of encrypted emails every year.

]]> Fri, 10 Mar 2023 15:37:50 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) @hdm @buherator

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I tried looking around but I haven't had success finding a good replacement. It looks like they replaced the URLs with a modal popup which is dynamically created via Javascript.

I'll let you know if I end up finding a solution myself.

assets.infosec.exchange/packs/

]]> @hdm @buherator

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I tried looking around but I haven't had success finding a good replacement. It looks like they replaced the URLs with a modal popup which is dynamically created via Javascript.

I'll let you know if I end up finding a solution myself.

assets.infosec.exchange/packs/

]]> Mon, 30 Jan 2023 16:51:06 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) @zerok I didn't notice that Mastodon supports timeline sync via the marker's API. Thanks for sharing!

]]> @zerok I didn't notice that Mastodon supports timeline sync via the marker's API. Thanks for sharing!

]]> Sat, 28 Jan 2023 04:02:26 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) How do you organize your Lean proofs? I wrote a blog post discussing some strategies I employ to make Lean 3 proofs more readable.

brandonrozek.com/blog/readable

]]> How do you organize your Lean proofs? I wrote a blog post discussing some strategies I employ to make Lean 3 proofs more readable.

brandonrozek.com/blog/readable

]]> Thu, 15 Dec 2022 21:39:17 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) OpenPGP.js is library that enables client side usage of PGP. With it, I created a form on my contact page that allows others to send me encrypted messages.

OpenPGP.js: openpgpjs.org/

Contact Page: brandonrozek.com/contact/

Form Implementation: github.com/Brandon-Rozek/websi

]]> OpenPGP.js is library that enables client side usage of PGP. With it, I created a form on my contact page that allows others to send me encrypted messages.

OpenPGP.js: openpgpjs.org/

Contact Page: brandonrozek.com/contact/

Form Implementation: github.com/Brandon-Rozek/websi

]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2022 04:55:21 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) Need to stitch photos together into a video? Love FFMPEG? Hammad wrote a great post on his blog to do just that. In fact, he even includes a snippet for overlaying audio which is great for slideshows.
hamelot.io/visualization/using

]]> Need to stitch photos together into a video? Love FFMPEG? Hammad wrote a great post on his blog to do just that. In fact, he even includes a snippet for overlaying audio which is great for slideshows.
hamelot.io/visualization/using

]]> Sat, 18 Jun 2022 23:16:43 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) Wed, 15 Jun 2022 18:39:53 +0000 brozek@brandonrozek.com (Brandon Rozek) @proactiveservices Oh shoot! I meant to call the emergency astronomer hotline :blobcatfacepalm:

]]> @proactiveservices Oh shoot! I meant to call the emergency astronomer hotline :blobcatfacepalm:

]]>