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2024

25 April 2024 — “Run Your Own Mail Server” Kickstarter prelaunch up
24 April 2024 — New Prohibition Orcs novelette out
22 April 2024 — Penguicon 2024 Schedule
2 April 2024 — March’s Malformed Sausage
30 March 2024 — xz backdoor vs “$ git commit murder” sale
29 March 2024 — Vultr backed down, but so what?
27 March 2024 — Vultr Just Betrayed Us
26 March 2024 — Shopify vs Woocommerce for Author Bookstores
13 March 2024 — No Podcast Tomorrow
9 March 2024 — “Run Your Own Mail Server” off for tech review
5 March 2024 — February’s Fantabulous Sausage
17 February 2024 — The end of the Findaway Voices saga (hopefully?)
16 February 2024 — Findaway Voices followup
15 February 2024 — Dear writers: Delete your Findaway Voices account NOW
14 February 2024 — Las Vegas NV Gelato Meetup, 17 February 2024 at Cocolini
8 February 2024 — Everything, With Banana
6 February 2024 — Mail Software Projects for You
5 February 2024 — Block list vs black list in my books
1 February 2024 — January’s Jalousie Sausage
31 January 2024 — At long last: the MWL Title Index
24 January 2024 — Las Vegas NV Gelato Meetup, 17 February 2024
11 January 2024 — Terry Pratchett Discworld Bundle vs DRM
9 January 2024 — Blog Archive
8 January 2024 — December’s Defiant Sausage
5 January 2024 — 2023 Income Sources

2023

6 December 2023 — My Ebook Store Now Offers Gift Cards
1 December 2023 — November’s Noughtwithstanding Sausage
27 November 2023 — Penguicon Auction, or: How To Make Me Shut Up
17 November 2023 — Penguicon fundraiser, featuring Orc-Cased Orcs
13 November 2023 — Why My Short Fiction Is Exclusively In My Store
10 November 2023 — New Christmas story: “The Rats’ Man’s Lackey and the Forbidden Tinsel”
9 November 2023 — Online TLS talk, 16 November 2023
7 November 2023 — My new “FreeBSD Journal” column has escaped
2 November 2023 — October’s Ornery Sausage
1 November 2023 — My Web Store Features
23 October 2023 — “Apocalypse Moi” Patronizer and Kickstarter copies shipped
18 October 2023 — Lucas-Adjacent Kickstarters
13 October 2023 — “Apocalypse Moi” Kickstarter status
4 October 2023 — “60 Seconds of WIP” now on Apple and Spotify
2 October 2023 — September’s Succulent Sausage
27 September 2023 — OpenBSD PF versus FreeBSD PF
26 September 2023 — Yes, I Know I’m In the AI Scraping Search Engine
19 September 2023 — A True Story: “The Cat”
15 September 2023 — Video Score: Me 83, Rats 53650
8 September 2023 — Proof You Should Not Run My Code: my SNMP agent
6 September 2023 — “Apocalypse Moi” ebook out!
1 September 2023 — August’s Aghast Sausage
26 August 2023 — Finding a way to “Speak the Truth”
8 August 2023 — Patreon update: I got paid, mostly
4 August 2023 — Patreon has stopped paying me
2 August 2023 — “Apocalypse Moi” Kickstarter is live
1 August 2023 — July’s Jabberwocky Sausage
24 July 2023 — Enterprise Ebook Licensing
19 July 2023 — “Apocalypse Moi” Kickstarter pre-launch page up
12 July 2023 — New FreeBSD Journal column out
11 July 2023 — Free Shipping at My Print Bookstore
10 July 2023 — Testing Podcast Setup, RSS Unstable
6 July 2023 — 60 Seconds of WIP, 7 July 2023
6 July 2023 — Notes on Amazon Killing Electronic Subscriptions
5 July 2023 — First BSDCan Operations Team Meeting
3 July 2023 — June’s Jerryrigged Sausage
30 June 2023 — New Prohibition Orcs tale: Yellow-Eyed War
29 June 2023 — 60 Seconds of WIP, 29 June 2023
26 June 2023 — Rat Pancakes
23 June 2023 — “Run Your Own Mail Server” technology stack
21 June 2023 — Sixty Seconds of WIP, 21 June 2023
19 June 2023 — “Treat The Rats” updated
15 June 2023 — “New products RSS Feed” on my ebookstore
12 June 2023 — Tomorrow night: mug.org talk on OpenBSD Filesystems
5 June 2023 — Organized Freebies
31 May 2023 — May’s Moderate Sausage
23 May 2023 — BSDCan 2024 Reorganization
18 May 2023 — New BSDNow interview
9 May 2023 — Print Price Increases
4 May 2023 — April’s Ablated Sausage
28 April 2023 — ChatGPT versus Facts
27 April 2023 — Quarterly and Annual Patronizing
26 April 2023 — I Have A Dream
24 April 2023 — Ten Years of Penguicon Pop Tarts
20 April 2023 — Updated Penguicon 2023 schedule and references
17 April 2023 — OpenBSD Filesystems Talk: Tuesday, 17 April 2023, 7PM EDT
13 April 2023 — More Stuff In My Ebook Store, and a mega-deal on Absolutely Everything
12 April 2023 — Penguicon 2023 Schedule
11 April 2023 — Free Anthology, including Me
5 April 2023 — Release Day: “Devotion and Corrosion”
1 April 2023 — April Fool’s Collection
27 March 2023 — “Devotion and Corrosion” Kickstarter wrap-up
17 March 2023 — Sponsorship Open: “Run Your Own Mail Server”
16 March 2023 — “Run Your Own Mail Server” chapter 0
10 March 2023 — When Will I Open “Run Your Own Mail Server” sponsorships?
9 March 2023 — Order Books for BSDCan Delivery
1 March 2023 — Selling Direct and Customer Support
28 February 2023 — BSDCan 2023 Tutorial: OpenBSD Storage Management
27 February 2023 — Jan/Feb 2023 Column Out in the FreeBSD Journal
23 February 2023 — New Short Story: “The Rats’ Man’s Lackey and the Half Gallon of Christmas Miracle”
21 February 2023 — Comparing Kickstarters
7 February 2023 — “Devotion and Corrosion” Kickstarter now live
1 February 2023 — Triple Threat February: Cheap Orcs, Reading, and Kicking
30 January 2023 — Online Public Reading, 9 Big-Name Writers and Me
20 January 2023 — Shipping OMF
19 January 2023 — “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” hardcovers are here
18 January 2023 — Updates to Print Bookstore and FAQ
17 January 2023 — The One Lone Audiobook now exclusive on my store
16 January 2023 — Novel, Story Collection, and In-Print Nonfiction Index Pages
14 January 2023 — The orc-leather-cased Orcibuses have arrived!
11 January 2023 — “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” print leaking out
10 January 2023 — “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” Print Status
6 January 2023 — 2022 Income Sources
3 January 2023 — The Terminal Brag Shelf

2022

30 December 2022 — Why “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” is not in Amazon’s Kindle store
29 December 2022 — “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” ebook leaking out
27 December 2022 — “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” print layout notes
23 December 2022 — “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” status
15 December 2022 — The Spite Bezos sale ends, Filesystems, and my Next Kickstarter
12 December 2022 — the complete Montague Portal redux, in hardcover
11 December 2022 — The complete Montague Portal on sale for $5.85 at Amazon
28 November 2022 — Social Media Updates: Good-Bye Twitter
25 November 2022 — Mailing List Freebies
17 November 2022 — Fifty Books. Thirty Years. What Next?
14 November 2022 — Fediverse Servers, plus mac_portacl on FreeBSD
8 November 2022 — Why Mastodon/the Fediverse kind of sucks right now
4 November 2022 — Eight years ago today, my first novel
3 November 2022 — “Prohibition Orcs” Kickstarter signed paperbacks shipped
2 November 2022 — Two pieces by me in this month’s FreeBSD Journal
1 November 2022 — upgrading PHP 7.4 to PHP 8 on FreeBSD
31 October 2022 — Talk on Rat Operated Vehicles
28 October 2022 — “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” Print/Ebook Bundle Preorder
25 October 2022 — Sponsorships, Releases, New Books, and Kickstarters
19 September 2022 — “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” draft done!
29 August 2022 — “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” Status Report
25 August 2022 — Rat Operated Vehicle
1 August 2022 — I Eat Salmon Ice Cream
21 July 2022 — Leather Book Covers?
18 July 2022 — Halfway Through the Orc Kickstarter
5 July 2022 — Prohibition Orcs Kickstarter now live!
21 June 2022 — “SSH at Scale” Talk Tonight
13 April 2022 — Penguicon 2022 Schedule and Books
11 April 2022 — Talking DNSSEC, 12 April 2022
4 April 2022 — Kickstarter and Blockchain
29 March 2022 — Software Recommendations
15 March 2022 — Yet Another New Book: “Letters to ed(1)”
14 March 2022 — DYB Auction for Clarion 2020 Students
10 March 2022 — New Sponsorships Open, and More Crowdfunding
1 March 2022 — DNSSEC, Badgers, and Orcs, Oh My!
28 February 2022 — “DNSSEC Mastery 2/e” Auction Winners
11 February 2022 — Charity Auction: DNSSEC Mastery proof for Black Girls Code
7 February 2022 — DNSSEC Mastery, second edition, creeping out
26 January 2022 — New book: “Domesticate Your Badgers”
4 January 2022 — 2021 Income Sources
3 January 2022 — The New York Times, featuring: me?

2021

13 December 2021 — Screwing Up, and Recovering
2 December 2021 — My Bookstore Now Using a CDN
1 December 2021 — Kickstarter Campaign Results
29 November 2021 — New Test System
3 November 2021 — 640% Kickstarter, Sponsorships, and Shipping
1 November 2021 — “Domesticate Your Badgers” Kickstarter Opens
27 October 2021 — New time travel short story escaped, new Kickstarter approaching
18 October 2021 — October 2021’s Bipolar Updates
15 October 2021 — Halloween Ebook Sale: Immortal Clay
27 September 2021 — 2021 Soroptimist Auction Results
25 September 2021 — Auction Last Day
16 September 2021 — My Inevitable(?) Amazon Tech Ebook Exit
16 September 2021 — Forthcoming Mastery Book Price Changes
7 September 2021 — Breaking the Silence
3 September 2021 — “DNSSEC Mastery, 2nd Edition” Cover Reveal
23 August 2021 — Auction Against Human Trafficking
16 July 2021 — “$ git sync murder” is out, so: how many books have I written?
15 July 2021 — “git sync murder” sponsor & Patronizer gifts now shipping
14 July 2021 — Total Mastery, 2021 July
8 July 2021 — Public Online TLS Talk
16 June 2021 — “DNSSEC Mastery, 2nd Edition” Open for Sponsorships
5 May 2021 — the Write Stuff bundle, featuring: me!
4 May 2021 — Sponsorship Notes on “TLS Mastery”
19 April 2021 — TLS Mastery Release, Sponsor Gifts, and Acknowledgements
13 April 2021 — My Penguicon 2021 Schedule
5 April 2021 — “Only Footnotes” Now Available
1 April 2021 — New Book: Only Footnotes
24 March 2021 — New podcast interview: Alive After Reading
10 March 2021 — My first “What is Wrong With You?” Patron Cert
8 March 2021 — “TLS Mastery” pre-order on my web store
9 February 2021 — New Montague Portal omnibus, and a free novel
8 February 2021 — My books on Google Play, for now
28 January 2021 — Private Patronizer site out of beta
25 January 2021 — “TLS Mastery” first draft done!
3 January 2021 — 2020 Income Sources

2020

28 December 2020 — Private Patreon Public Beta
17 December 2020 — New Montague Portal novel: “Drinking Heavy Water”
25 November 2020 — More on Print Orders
24 November 2020 — Direct Print Book Sale
9 November 2020 — Temporally Shifting Bundles
30 October 2020 — Last-Minute Public Reading, on Halloween
28 October 2020 — Patreon Reorganization, January 2021
21 October 2020 — A Very MWL Christmas
15 October 2020 — Bundle, and the next Montague Portal novel
14 October 2020 — Book Sale
24 September 2020 — Online Jails talk with Q&A, 25 September 2020
1 September 2020 — Another orc story, and more fiction stuff!
25 August 2020 — “TLS Mastery” Covers Reveal, with T-shirts and Posters
13 August 2020 — TLS Mastery updates, August 2020
6 August 2020 — The Worst that Can Happen to an Author
27 July 2020 — I’m At a Hacking Con
21 July 2020 — Sponsorship Headaches
23 June 2020 — BSDCan 2020 Charity Auction Results
16 June 2020 — Reviews and Podcasts on “Cash Flow for Creators”
8 June 2020 — Online SNMP Talk Tomorrow Night
2 June 2020 — BSDCan 2020 Charity Auction
25 May 2020 — Podcast interview on SNMP
21 May 2020 — New book: “Cash Flow for Creators”
16 May 2020 — My very first audiobook
16 April 2020 — “git sync murder” status
13 April 2020 — “TLS Mastery” sponsorships open
10 April 2020 — The Print Book Trade, and Money
1 April 2020 — New “Prohibition Orcs” today
31 March 2020 — My New Print Bookstore
19 March 2020 — “SNMP Mastery,” April Fool’s, and The Networknomicon
16 March 2020 — My Asia trip is cancelled
17 February 2020 — “SNMP Mastery” leaking out
6 February 2020 — Sponsoring a “git commit murder” sequel
31 January 2020 — The MWL 2020 Asia Tour
20 January 2020 — A different sort of interview, on tabletop RPGs
15 January 2020 — Me, talking SNMP at Semibug: 21 January 2020
14 January 2020 — “SNMP Mastery” cover reveal
6 January 2020 — 2019 Income Sources

2019

12 December 2019 — “SNMP Mastery” tech reviewers wanted
30 October 2019 — Proof I Am a Monster
28 October 2019 — The Six Prequels to “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails”
8 October 2019 — Full-Time Writing: Five Years In
5 October 2019 — Hear Me Read Without Leaving Your Chair
10 September 2019 — “SNMP Mastery” sponsorships now live
9 September 2019 — “Sudo Mastery” print sponsor and Patronizer shipments
3 September 2019 — “Sudo Mastery, 2nd Edition” now out!
26 August 2019 — Manly McManface: Endgame
21 August 2019 — “Sudo Mastery” and the new Tilted Windmill Press clothing line
13 August 2019 — The Impending Demise of “PGP & GPG”
9 August 2019 — New novel out! “Terrapin Sky Tango,” aka “Butterfly Stomp Waltz 2”
18 July 2019 — Seattle Gelato Meetup, 1 August 2019
17 July 2019 — “Sudo Mastery, 2nd Edition” open for tech review
24 June 2019 — “Sudo Mastery 2nd Edition” cover art reveal
12 May 2019 — BSDCan 2019 Auction Items, and next Beaks novel
10 May 2019 — Video of live reading of “FreeBSD Journal” column
24 April 2019 — My Penguicon 2019 Schedule
21 April 2019 — FreeBSD Mastery: Jails – Bail Bond Denied Edition
15 April 2019 — Print Sponsor Gifts Mailed for “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails”
10 April 2019 — “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” Print Sponsor Gifts Threaten to Topple
3 April 2019 — Talking Jails at Semibug, 9 April 2019
1 April 2019 — “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” and a new novella
27 March 2019 — “Sudo Mastery 2/e” sponsorships available
26 March 2019 — New sponsorship announcement mailing list
25 March 2019 — Restore Woocommerce Users from Backup
25 March 2019 — “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” ebook escaping!
11 March 2019 — End-of-February Update
19 February 2019 — “Sudo Mastery, Second Edition” and Cover Art
11 February 2019 — “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” first draft complete
3 February 2019 — End-Of-January Update
23 January 2019 — When To Buy Your Own ISBNs
14 January 2019 — FreeBSD Journal column
2 January 2019 — MWL’s 2018 Wrap-Up

2018

7 November 2018 — Cutting My Throat at Last
22 October 2018 — Auction Winners
19 October 2018 — Decent Pics of “Relayd & Httpd Mastery” signature
18 October 2018 — Ugly Pics of AF3e auction signatures
15 October 2018 — Absolute FreeBSD now shipping!
10 October 2018 — Developer-signed “Relayd & Httpd Mastery” hardcover
10 October 2018 — FreeBSD & OpenBSD fundraisers
10 October 2018 — Committer-signed “Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Ed” auction
27 September 2018 — AF3e ship date and next FreeBSD talk
24 September 2018 — Happy #CIDRDay!
7 September 2018 — talking on CreateSpace-KDP print Migration, 24 September 2018
5 September 2018 — Pricing Shifts between CreateSpace, IngramSpark, and KDP Print
28 August 2018 — CreateSpace Shutdown Plan
27 August 2018 — I must credit Walmart
20 August 2018 — New podcast interview
16 August 2018 — Tuesday, 21 August 18: me, on ed(1), at SemiBUG
13 August 2018 — Bookstore Reading
9 August 2018 — Burn it down! Burn it all down!
5 August 2018 — Web Empire Redesign
2 August 2018 — Writing Business Cashflow
26 July 2018 — Second Editions versus the Publishing Business
20 July 2018 — New Patreon rewards for $1 tier
7 July 2018 — New Interview
6 July 2018 — New “Immortal Clay” short story
29 June 2018 — New Patreon video
18 June 2018 — Book Fair, 23 June 2018
6 June 2018 — Author Discoverability
14 May 2018 — “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” Sponsorships, and writing schedule changes
26 April 2018 — New talks, and the F-bomb
13 April 2018 — My Penguicon 2018 Schedule
12 April 2018 — Too Subtle for my Own Good
2 April 2018 — “Ed Mastery” follow-up
1 April 2018 — For 1 April: #mwlSecretBook reveal!
22 March 2018 — On Sponsor Gifts
14 March 2018 — “SSH Mastery, 2nd ed” in hardcover
8 March 2018 — speaking at mug.org 10 April 2018
12 February 2018 — SSH Mastery 2/e out
6 February 2018 — Sponsoring a Scam
2 February 2018 — “SSH Mastery 2/e” copyedits back
17 January 2018 — Podcast Interview with Yours Truly
16 January 2018 — My ConFusion Schedule
2 January 2018 — MWL’s 2017 Wrap-Up

2017

6 December 2017 — “SSH Mastery” 2nd ed tech reviewers wanted
7 November 2017 — The first AF3e preorders
2 November 2017 — MS Word auto-recovery files and Dictation
30 October 2017 — “SSH Mastery, 2nd Ed” News, Sponsorships, and Cover
19 October 2017 — Leveling Up
4 October 2017 — I have a Patreon now
2 October 2017 — First draft of “Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd Edition” finished!
7 September 2017 — New story: Savaged by Systemd
22 August 2017 — AF3e status, 22 August 2017
11 August 2017 — BSDCam Trip Report
3 August 2017 — Contributing to FreeBSD
25 July 2017 — First-ever interview with me, the novelist
13 July 2017 — AF3e Status, 17 July 2017
7 July 2017 — Get My Books Cheap
30 June 2017 — “Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition” update
31 May 2017 — BSDCan 2017 Auction Swag
24 May 2017 — “Relayd and Httpd Mastery,” both the good and the bad
22 May 2017 — “Relayd and Httpd Mastery” is out!
11 May 2017 — Conferences and Traveling
9 May 2017 — Self-Imposed Split Personality
3 May 2017 — Web Presence Redesign
1 May 2017 — Experimental Price Cuts
25 April 2017 — Penguicon 2017 Schedule
11 April 2017 — on the title of “git commit murder”
30 March 2017 — New novel: “git commit murder”
28 March 2017 — “Httpd and Relayd Mastery” off to copyedit
27 March 2017 — AF3e Auction Winner
27 March 2017 — “Absolute FreeBSD 3rd ed” Auction ends SOON
22 March 2017 — “And then the murders began.”
15 March 2017 — Get your name in “Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition”
9 March 2017 — Relayd and the Next Tech Book
1 March 2017 — My face on the wall
23 February 2017 — At the GP Central Library 11 March 2017
21 February 2017 — “Hi, I’m jkh and I’m a d**k”
15 February 2017 — My Form Letter Response
10 February 2017 — I’ll be at the Troy Public Library
23 January 2017 — Kansas LinuxFest 2017
18 January 2017 — As a Nefarious Media Agent…
17 January 2017 — Sponsorships on “Httpd and Relayd Mastery” available
16 January 2017 — Relayd Auction Results
12 January 2017 — 2017 presentation proposals
6 January 2017 — Tuckerization Auction Non-Bid Comments Here
6 January 2017 — Get your name in the relayd book
3 January 2017 — A Christmas Wish (List) Gone Wrong

2016

29 December 2016 — MWL’s 2016 wrap-up
18 November 2016 — Reddit advertising of “PAM Mastery”
16 November 2016 — Reviews and Murder
11 November 2016 — “PAM is Un-American” talk now online
10 November 2016 — The Apocalypse, on Sale
9 November 2016 — On the Election
10 October 2016 — Ohio LinuxFest 2016 wrap-up
5 October 2016 — Challenge bomb
4 October 2016 — “PAM Mastery” print sponsor books
3 October 2016 — My 3-day challenge for Oct 2016
30 September 2016 — Unlicensed Book Translations
28 September 2016 — Next Tech Book
23 September 2016 — “PAM Mastery” out!
21 September 2016 — The semibug PAM talk live tweet
19 September 2016 — “PAM Mastery” ebook now out
16 September 2016 — This year’s anemic output
15 September 2016 — “PAM Mastery” print layout done
1 September 2016 — New novel, and a new novel bundle
26 August 2016 — See Me in 2016
22 August 2016 — Cover reveal for “PAM Mastery”
18 August 2016 — Wherein the past haunts me, but in a good way
2 August 2016 — I’ll be at Rust City Book Con
13 July 2016 — Scottsdale AZ redux
12 July 2016 — “PAM Mastery” tech reviewers wanted
20 June 2016 — My BSDCan “OpenPAM & BSD” talk
17 June 2016 — Why I refuse to join Kindle Unlimited
10 June 2016 — FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS (Version canadienne)
8 June 2016 — Getting Ahead of Blackmail
1 June 2016 — Two new stories and a novella
31 May 2016 — Reality check for “PAM Mastery.”
31 May 2016 — BSDCan Intro Session Volunteers Wanted
26 May 2016 — My FreeBSD story
26 April 2016 — Books for “FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS” print sponsors
17 April 2016 — “FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS” now available!
11 April 2016 — Penguicon 2016 Lucas Track Schedule
8 April 2016 — “FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS” sponsor check
6 April 2016 — Book Bundles
1 April 2016 — Interview with me at BSDNow
28 March 2016 — Get the “Immortal Clay” sequel: Kipuka Blues
27 March 2016 — “FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS” sponsorships ending soon
22 March 2016 — Free short story: “Butterfly Stomp”
17 March 2016 — First review of “FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems”
16 March 2016 — FreeBSD and pam_listfile
14 March 2016 — Sponsoring “PAM Mastery”
11 March 2016 — I just spammed my customers. Mea culpa.
8 March 2016 — “FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS” in tech review
7 March 2016 — New novel in print and ebook: Butterfly Stomp Waltz
22 February 2016 — February 2016 status and sponsorship questions
17 February 2016 — next talk: “FreeBSD Filesystem Fun” at March semibug
10 February 2016 — Winter Arrivals
8 February 2016 — “FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS” Table of Contents
5 February 2016 — Sponsorships and Hot Water
1 February 2016 — Sponsorships for “FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS”
28 January 2016 — FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems now escaping
15 January 2016 — The Penguicon Lucas Tech Track
7 January 2016 — September’s Publishing Workshop
5 January 2016 — Patronage without Patreon
4 January 2016 — New review on “Tarsnap Mastery”
1 January 2016 — randi vs xmj

2015

29 December 2015 — “FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems” disclaimer
8 December 2015 — My SSH talk now on YouTube
2 December 2015 — “FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems” early draft available!
18 November 2015 — Inaugural SemiBUG meeting notes
13 November 2015 — first semibug.org meeting next Tuesday
4 November 2015 — Detroit-area BSD user group, take 2
31 October 2015 — freebsd-update: “/usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory”
28 October 2015 — 50% TWP titles (and more) at Kobo.com
26 October 2015 — New “FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS” review
23 October 2015 — SSH talk, 10 November 2015
1 October 2015 — September 2015 updates
17 September 2015 — Reviews and Interviews
8 September 2015 — Two new stories
21 August 2015 — On “unpleasant truths” in tech books
30 July 2015 — Sysadmin Appreciation Day sale!
22 July 2015 — Me at LivBSD on ZFS
15 July 2015 — Open dinner in Scottsdale, AZ, 17 July 2015
2 July 2015 — June 2015 Updates
17 June 2015 — YouTube review on “Networking For Systems Administrators”
30 May 2015 — I will have books at BSDCan
22 May 2015 — FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS ebook done
15 May 2015 — FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS cover
13 May 2015 — Tarsnap talk on-line
12 May 2015 — European Union VAT and my bookstore
7 May 2015 — Free novella at Amazon
6 May 2015 — WordPress versus FreeBSD
5 May 2015 — Web site rearrangement
4 May 2015 — short story: Wednesday’s Seagulls
4 May 2015 — Immortal Clay
4 May 2015 — Ignore the next couple of posts
28 April 2015 — Tarsnap talk at mug.org, 12 May 2015
16 April 2015 — FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS on pre-order
8 April 2015 — FreeBSD and beadm
7 April 2015 — Sunday Morning Linux Review on “Tarsnap Mastery”
1 April 2015 — March 2015 updates
17 March 2015 — “Forever Falls” novella print and ebook
16 March 2015 — “Tarsnap Mastery” print out!
4 March 2015 — “Tarsnap Mastery” ebook out
3 March 2015 — SMLR on N4SA
25 February 2015 — BSDCan proposals and rejections
11 February 2015 — n4sa Print Sneaking Out
5 February 2015 — FMSE Chapter 10 available for free
3 February 2015 — Testing Reddit Advertising for Nonfiction
28 January 2015 — “Networking for Systems Administrators” on Kindle
27 January 2015 — Word doc placed in Indesign gets numbered headings
24 January 2015 — “Tarsnap Mastery” pre-pub reviewers wanted
23 January 2015 — FreeBSD Jail Management Tools
21 January 2015 — Jan 2015 Status & Next Projects
20 January 2015 — Two “FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials” reviews
13 January 2015 — BSDCan 2015 Call for Papers Ending Soon

2014

26 December 2014 — Volunteering Early to Tech Review
18 December 2014 — BSDNow Interview now live
17 December 2014 — Sudo talk now on YouTube
16 December 2014 — SMLR on “FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials”
10 December 2014 — Next tech book: Tarsnap Mastery
9 December 2014 — “Networking for System Administrators” – Tech reviewers wanted
8 December 2014 — “FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials” print available!
7 December 2014 — FreeBSD fetch(1) broken on SSL links?
4 December 2014 — FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials at printer
24 November 2014 — FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials ebook released
19 November 2014 — Book Review: Book of PF, 3rd Edition
18 November 2014 — Initial reactions to “Immortal Clay”
13 November 2014 — Sudo talk at mug.org, 9 Dec 2014
10 November 2014 — And today, on Audible…
9 November 2014 — “FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials” sent to copyedit
5 November 2014 — FreeBSD “Working copy ‘/usr/src’ locked.”
4 November 2014 — New novel out: “Immortal Clay”
3 November 2014 — Next Project: “Networking for Sysadmins”
25 October 2014 — FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials cover
15 October 2014 — Revoked and Replaced OpenPGP Key
15 October 2014 — “Storage Essentials” first draft complete!
8 October 2014 — I’m changing careers
23 September 2014 — Shuffling Partitions on FreeBSD
21 August 2014 — Phabricator on FreeBSD installation notes
12 August 2014 — New autobiography chapter: The Thumbs
6 August 2014 — FreeBSD ZFS snapshots with zfstools
30 July 2014 — a survey of FreeBSD ZFS snapshot automation tools
24 July 2014 — Google Play notes
23 July 2014 — FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials – discount pre-pub available
16 July 2014 — Installing and Using Tarsnap for Fun and Profit
15 July 2014 — Cloning a FreeBSD/ZFS Machine with ‘zfs send’
11 July 2014 — mfiutil on FreeBSD
11 June 2014 — FreeBSD Disk Partitioning
2 June 2014 — next book(s): FreeBSD storage
30 May 2014 — OpenBSD and Google Compute Engine
29 May 2014 — virtio NIC on OpenBSD 5.5-current
20 May 2014 — Live webcast on O’Reilly
17 May 2014 — LibreSSL at BSDCan
16 May 2014 — BSDCan keynote
15 May 2014 — FreeBSD devsummit notes: ports & packages
14 May 2014 — FreeBSD devsummit virtualization session
14 May 2014 — FreeBSD 11 feature goals
7 May 2014 — Next week: BSDCan, with goats
6 May 2014 — My NSP ebooks, 50% off
28 April 2014 — Penguicon 2014 Schedule
3 April 2014 — Book Review: “Applied Network Security Monitoring”
2 April 2014 — The Con is a Lie
1 April 2014 — Announcing DetroitBSDCon: May 14-17 2014
1 April 2014 — BSDCan sold to Oracle?
27 March 2014 — DNSSEC-verified SSL Certificates, the Standard Way
24 March 2014 — Mailing Lists, featuring: me!
20 March 2014 — NYCBSDCon 2014 Video, and 2014 appearances
18 March 2014 — Running Ancient Rsync
10 March 2014 — Trying poo-DRE-eh — uh, poudriere
3 March 2014 — Installing FreeBSD 10 to ZFS with a script
28 February 2014 — ifup-local on bridge members on CentOS
25 February 2014 — New reviews
10 February 2014 — 2013 Failures and 2014 Goals
7 February 2014 — NYCBSDCon ebook sale
29 January 2014 — Crazed Ferrets in a Berkeley Shower – 2014 edition
28 January 2014 — Why I don’t have ads here
17 January 2014 — Jan 2014 Java update broke me
16 January 2014 — Ansible and PF, plus NTP
10 January 2014 — Wanted: a VAX
7 January 2014 — The Desktop of Doom
2 January 2014 — Jailing FreeBSD 4 on FreeBSD 10

2013

23 December 2013 — Amazon gets it wrong
18 December 2013 — Sudo Mastery and DNSSEC Mastery now at OpenBSD bookstore
11 December 2013 — On asking me to write for you
4 December 2013 — FreeBSD authentication against Samba 4 LDAP
3 December 2013 — FreeBSD-update seems to hang on 10.0-BETA2
25 November 2013 — Wanted: BSDCan Volunteers
21 November 2013 — Moving mailboxes from Courier/Maildir to DirectAdmin/dovecot/Maildir
13 November 2013 — mug.org OpenBSD talk on-line
12 November 2013 — Tonight, at mug.org
11 November 2013 — Sudo Mastery print now at Amazon
8 November 2013 — BSDNow interview now live
7 November 2013 — Cisco supports CARP? Ha ha ha hahaha…
5 November 2013 — OpenBSD talk at Farmington Community Library 12 November 2013
4 November 2013 — BSDNow.tv, featuring… me!
1 November 2013 — FreeBSD Jails and ntpd
31 October 2013 — Happy Halloween!
30 October 2013 — “Sudo Mastery” print + ebook bundle via Amazon
29 October 2013 — “Sudo Mastery” ebook widely available, and acknowledgements
11 October 2013 — checking group membership in Ansible templates
9 October 2013 — Sudo Mastery off to copyeditor
7 October 2013 — EuroBSDCon, and Sudo Mastery
16 September 2013 — “Sudo Mastery” tech reviewers wanted
12 September 2013 — First draft of “Sudo Mastery” complete
9 September 2013 — I’m not writing an Ansible book…
4 September 2013 — Cross-platform OpenSSH server management with Ansible
27 August 2013 — managing sshd with Ansible
16 August 2013 — Command-Line FreeBSD Configuration: sysrc
13 August 2013 — Wanted: interesting sudoers
12 August 2013 — Book Review: The Practice of Network Security Monitoring
10 August 2013 — “DNSSec in 55 Minutes” on YouTube
9 August 2013 — tomorrow’s DNSSEC talk
1 August 2013 — next tech book: Sudo Mastery
31 July 2013 — live DNSSEC talk
29 July 2013 — FreeBSD pkgng vs custom ports
22 July 2013 — convert FreeBSD to pkgng with Ansible
12 July 2013 — I sound like a real dork: BSDTalk 228
10 July 2013 — “Absolute OpenBSD” auction photographs
1 July 2013 — “DNSSEC Mastery” business numbers
10 June 2013 — Two more “Absolute OpenBSD 2/e” reviews
5 June 2013 — Visiting an OpenBSD hackathon.
23 May 2013 — Two “Absolute OpenBSD” reviews
21 May 2013 — FreeBSD-update vs bind99-base
20 May 2013 — DNSSEC Mastery #1 best-seller…
16 May 2013 — The next FreeBSD book?
16 May 2013 — DNSSEC Mastery print now on Amazon
14 May 2013 — Books at BSDCan
13 May 2013 — First “DNSSEC Mastery” reviews
8 May 2013 — “Absolute OpenBSD” Kindle edition: problems and on sale
6 May 2013 — Basic Ansible Playbooks
3 May 2013 — iptables and ipsets
25 April 2013 — Penguicon Schedule
25 April 2013 — At Penguicon this weekend
19 April 2013 — “Absolute OpenBSD” physically exists
17 April 2013 — “DNSSEC Mastery” now complete, ebook version available!
16 April 2013 — “Absolute OpenBSD” auction winner
13 April 2013 — “Absolute OpenBSD” auction clears $1000
10 April 2013 — “Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd edition” ebook download available
8 April 2013 — First barrier breached
8 April 2013 — First copy of “Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd ed” now on auction
5 April 2013 — DNSSEC Mastery release
3 April 2013 — Misc: Books, and April Fool’s
28 March 2013 — Upcoming Appearances
25 March 2013 — LeanPub experiences, and my own ebook store
21 March 2013 — “DNSSEC Mastery” status, dates, and acknowledgements
18 March 2013 — Absolute OpenBSD 2/e preorders from OpenBSD.org
13 March 2013 — Diagnosing “+Limiting icmp unreach response from…” with tcpdump
12 March 2013 — Tech Book Contracts
11 March 2013 — Some “Absolute OpenBSD 2/e” dates
27 February 2013 — First review of “Absolute OpenBSD 2e”
25 February 2013 — Any Firefox add-on people out there?
22 February 2013 — Absolute OpenBSD blurbs
20 February 2013 — DNSSEC Tech Reviewers Wanted
18 February 2013 — Fan Art
13 February 2013 — my OpenSSH AuthorizedKeysCommand script
9 February 2013 — Book status, 9 Feb 2013, and the Missing Contest Winner
31 January 2013 — “DNSSec Mastery” in-progress version available
30 January 2013 — Any interest in early drafts?
28 January 2013 — Configuration Automation with RANCID
25 January 2013 — Absolute OpenBSD 2/e Haiku Contest Winners & status
7 January 2013 — DNSSec and DLV on current BIND
4 January 2013 — Conference Submissions & BSDCan 2013
2 January 2013 — 2013 Projects and 2012 Errata

2012

18 December 2012 — OpenBSD ruleset tracing
17 December 2012 — TWP sponsoring BSDCan 2013
5 December 2012 — Absolute OpenBSD pre-orders now available
30 November 2012 — Next Nonfiction Book
21 November 2012 — 1st draft of Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Ed. complete
15 November 2012 — Absolute OpenBSD 2nd Edition status, 15 November 2012
8 November 2012 — Easy Security Project: standalone ssh-ldap-helper
19 October 2012 — Amazon Author Rank vs Writers
8 October 2012 — Get Your Haiku Published in the new “Absolute OpenBSD”
26 September 2012 — Log Only sudo Failures
10 September 2012 — On Bogus Book Reviews
5 September 2012 — Absolute OpenBSD status, 9 Sep 2012
4 September 2012 — OpenBSD read-only ports tree with restrictive sudo
8 August 2012 — Technology versus Democracy
7 August 2012 — FreeBSD: portmaster with pkgng
31 July 2012 — BSDTalk #218, featuring… Me!
30 July 2012 — FreeBSD Ports Annoyance
24 July 2012 — Writing New Editions
16 July 2012 — Cisco radius auth for users and enable
6 July 2012 — I’m in BSD Magazine
11 June 2012 — Keeping Friends
6 June 2012 — Splitting blog?
1 June 2012 — Floating business ideas past my readers
29 May 2012 — New review of “SSH Mastery”
18 May 2012 — Truth versus Art
14 May 2012 — Death of a Web Server
14 May 2012 — 50% off sale on my No Starch ebooks through O’Reilly, 4th May only
14 May 2012 — Debugging RANCID
14 May 2012 — And now for something completely different…
14 May 2012 — Absolute OpenBSD reviewers
14 May 2012 — Configuring OpenBSD to use RADIUS auth
29 March 2012 — The Purpose of Tech Books
23 March 2012 — February “SSH Mastery” sales numbers and expenses
21 March 2012 — SSH course at BSDCan 2012
20 March 2012 — Small server IPv4/IPv6 pf.conf
14 March 2012 — Book Promotion Methods and Effectiveness
1 March 2012 — SolusVM KVM offline migration with shared storage
29 February 2012 — SSH Mastery print now on Amazon
24 February 2012 — SSH Mastery Print Here
23 February 2012 — Remote Web Browsing via OpenSSH and PuTTY
17 February 2012 — Print pre-order for “SSH Mastery” now available
17 February 2012 — “SSH Mastery” print status
16 February 2012 — January “SSH Mastery” sales, by the numbers
14 February 2012 — Installing WHMCS on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE
7 February 2012 — New “SSH Mastery” review posted
6 February 2012 — Basic DNSSEC with BIND 9.9
2 February 2012 — “SSH Mastery” now #1 on Smashwords
2 February 2012 — New review of SSH Mastery, and print pre-order status
26 January 2012 — first long-form review of “Vicious Redemption”
24 January 2012 — SSH Mastery now #2 best-seller on Smashwords
23 January 2012 — SSH Mastery Review from Peter Hansteen
20 January 2012 — SSH Mastery Round-Up
19 January 2012 — SSH Mastery available at Smashwords
19 January 2012 — SSH Mastery ebook uploaded to Amazon and B&N
16 January 2012 — Consistency in Writing
11 January 2012 — New fiction collection: “Vicious Redemption”
3 January 2012 — enable DNSSec resolution on BIND 9.8.1

2011

30 December 2011 — SSH Mastery Cover Rough
29 December 2011 — SSH Mastery Cover Photo
28 December 2011 — Dec 2011 Updates
12 December 2011 — sudo auth via ssh-agent
6 December 2011 — Moving Static Sites from Apache to nginx
28 November 2011 — Why I Give Books Away
28 November 2011 — mirroring FreeBSD-9 disks with GPT
21 November 2011 — Recovering from Failing to Mirror Disks on FreeBSD 9.0-RC2
14 November 2011 — notes from my FreeBSD and Nagios upgrade
10 November 2011 — FreeBSD 9 PF macro & table changes
4 November 2011 — Unlicensed Book Downloads and the Writer
26 October 2011 — Installing a DragonFly BSD Jail
19 October 2011 — Upgrading DragonFly BSD
12 October 2011 — Updates, October 2011
27 September 2011 — sudo environment purging and OpenSSH
26 September 2011 — DragonFly BSD Introduction
19 September 2011 — Free Short Stories
9 September 2011 — Replicating Routerboards
25 August 2011 — Book updates, August 2011
17 August 2011 — Colin Harvey, RIP
15 August 2011 — ISC dhcpd and MAC prefixes
8 August 2011 — How to Lose your Job with SSH, part 2
5 August 2011 — Practical Packet Analysis, 2nd Edition
2 August 2011 — How to Lose your Job with SSH, part 1
22 July 2011 — creating FreeNAS 8 iSCSI target
13 July 2011 — New PuTTY released
12 July 2011 — SSH Book Title
10 July 2011 — Stalk me on Google Plus
7 July 2011 — FreeNAS 8.0 and SNMP
28 June 2011 — Full up on OpenSSH reviewers
27 June 2011 — add PF to FreeNAS 8
23 June 2011 — FreeNAS 8 on Intel SS4200-E
14 June 2011 — OpenSSH community reviewers wanted
13 June 2011 — How Community Tech Review Works
9 June 2011 — desktop OpenBSD pf.conf
6 June 2011 — SSHv1 and PuTTY
3 June 2011 — Summer 2011 nonfiction project: OpenSSH
31 May 2011 — my .cwmrc
23 May 2011 — IP Tables and VoIP
20 May 2011 — OpenBSD, Firefox, and Flash
19 May 2011 — FreeBSD iSCSI panic
17 May 2011 — BSDCan 2011
16 May 2011 — Populating OpenSSH chroot on OpenBSD
13 May 2011 — Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition
12 May 2011 — new package system coming for FreeBSD
11 May 2011 — Agents for Tech Authors
9 May 2011 — BSDCan this week
9 May 2011 — OpenSSH: requiring keys, but allow passwords from some locations
28 April 2011 — “Network Flow Analysis” in Japanese
25 April 2011 — NFSv4 and UIDs on OpenSolaris and Ubuntu
22 April 2011 — Book Giveaway Contest
21 April 2011 — Attending a Publishing Workshop
19 April 2011 — awk and access.log
18 April 2011 — mod_security2 and referer spam returns
11 April 2011 — WordPress LDAP auth on Ubuntu
10 April 2011 — new personal Web site
9 April 2011 — Permalinks Updated
5 April 2011 — New FreeBSD Installer test and walkthrough
4 April 2011 — [emerg] (13)Permission denied: couldn’t grab the accept mutex
4 April 2011 — Confession
1 April 2011 — FreeBSD Project Reorganization
31 March 2011 — New review of Absolute FreeBSD
29 March 2011 — Dealing with Negative Reviews
29 March 2011 — Nonfiction Tuckerization Auctions?
28 March 2011 — Roundcube/pgsql on FreeBSD
23 March 2011 — experiments in publishing
22 March 2011 — Buy My Books for Japanese Disaster Relief
21 March 2011 — short story on Kindle
21 March 2011 — Wherein I learn about initrd
18 March 2011 — pxelinux.cfg/* versus RCS
15 March 2011 — blather versus undeadly.org
14 March 2011 — diskless ubuntu serial console
9 March 2011 — my OpenBSD story
8 March 2011 — DNS DDos of the Day
7 March 2011 — publishers versus self-publishing
5 March 2011 — NYCBSDCon Video
28 February 2011 — OpenLDAP search filters
24 February 2011 — Fail Quickly
19 February 2011 — Public Service Announcement on Painting Old Brick
15 February 2011 — Unbound DNS Server
6 February 2011 — Adding IPv6 to a FreeBSD Mail/Web Server
31 January 2011 — tracking latency, loss, and jitter with SmokePing
26 January 2011 — Microsoft’s BSD support
24 January 2011 — upgrading to OpenBSD-current, the stupid way
19 January 2011 — mod_security2 case sensitive?
19 January 2011 — two more NFA reviews
11 January 2011 — identifying probable intrusion vectors with flow data
10 January 2011 — dating an intrusion with flow data
5 January 2011 — mod_security rule upgrades and logging
3 January 2011 — next tech book outline

2010

30 December 2010 — I have achieved pole position
23 December 2010 — Blowing up the Holidays
15 December 2010 — The OpenBSD IPSec kerfuffle
13 December 2010 — designing a tech book
10 December 2010 — The Wikileaks/BSD connection
9 December 2010 — writing tech books: write what you don’t know
7 December 2010 — Another information channel: Twitter
6 December 2010 — TechChannel interview published
6 December 2010 — RANCID, Mikrotik, and SSH
2 December 2010 — Ubuntu server 10.04 LTS diskless filesystem
24 November 2010 — “Page Cannot Be Displayed” and Internet Explorer
19 November 2010 — Firewalling diskless Ubuntu
18 November 2010 — another brush with glory
16 November 2010 — I will be at BSDCan
15 November 2010 — mod_security on FreeBSD
14 November 2010 — Things I Learned at NYCBSDCon, day 2
13 November 2010 — Things I Learned at NYCBSDCon, Day 1
9 November 2010 — NYCBSDCon is at our throats
4 November 2010 — fixing ESXi “failed with error N7Vmacore15SystemExceptionE”
2 November 2010 — recommendations for Web site update?
1 November 2010 — inspiration and winning awards
28 October 2010 — asking me for opinions on your writing
26 October 2010 — nested pf.conf macros
13 October 2010 — process management with CARP/HAST failover
12 October 2010 — price points in the kindle/paper war
8 October 2010 — More NFA reviews…
6 October 2010 — pfSense experiences
30 September 2010 — A writer’s view on the OOo/LibreOffice split
23 September 2010 — opennebula with one iscsi target per VM
16 September 2010 — forthcoming video interview
13 September 2010 — Network collisions running hosts under KVM
9 September 2010 — Short story by yours truly published
2 September 2010 — debugging iSCSI
1 September 2010 — The unexpected risks of ebooks
26 August 2010 — Finding a SIP DoS attack via flow analysis
23 August 2010 — Richard Beijtlich on NFA
18 August 2010 — Automated CARP/HAST Failover
17 August 2010 — Proposal accepted for NYCBSDCon
16 August 2010 — part 2 of interview…
12 August 2010 — New podcast interview on NFA
10 August 2010 — CARP and devd on FreeBSD
6 August 2010 — HAST and ZFS
5 August 2010 — iSCSI boot FreeBSD?
30 July 2010 — Uninstalling Windows 7 Games, with Prejudice
26 July 2010 — first two reviews of Network Flow Analysis
22 July 2010 — my fourth Cacti template
17 July 2010 — Not Interesting
8 July 2010 — review copies sent out, NFA a best-seller
30 June 2010 — Can’t give the danged books away…
28 June 2010 — rancid and cvsweb
24 June 2010 — Books have arrived!
23 June 2010 — Cisco virtual bridge interfaces
21 June 2010 — Free (for some value of free) Books
17 June 2010 — Request Tracker serialized workflow
15 June 2010 — apache22 LDAP auth
14 June 2010 — Sample Chapter of NFA available!
14 June 2010 — New fiction sale
10 June 2010 — OpenSolaris iSCSI ZFS COMSTAR target, FreeBSD initiator
9 June 2010 — tying ubuntu 10.04 LDAP to sudo and SSH
8 June 2010 — FreeBSD/amd64-current virtual kernel
7 June 2010 — I will have books to give away
4 June 2010 — add LDAP logins to Ubuntu 10.04
3 June 2010 — Ubuntu is really annoying me
2 June 2010 — new RouterBOARD 750
1 June 2010 — Hello