Slashpages on Ian's (not so) technical blog

✅ Defaults

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My default stack these days:

Firefox web browser
vscode IDE for code, vim for textfiles and markdown
zsh for my default shell
Linux and Macos for my daily drivers, in that order.
Debian and Ubuntu are my OSes of choice, but, I also use FreeBSD for my firewalls when able.
git for source code management
Paw.cloud for API Exploration
Grocy for household management

❓ Why

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👌🏻 Yup.

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👱🏻‍♂️ About Me

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I’m Ian.

💀 Death

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Guides

So, while I have a will, there’s a lot of shit in there that doesn’t talk about the nuts-and-bolts of what I want to have happen to my world should I die. My will covers the financial side of things, but, please take these instructions as my general wishes of what I want to have happen to things in my world. I last updated this in 2025-Apr-09.

Will

The financial stuff, property, and all of that legal shit should be handled by my will. Please respect the decisions that I’ve put in my will.

💡 Ideas

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Things that I’ve been working on:

Home Automation
DMS’es Locker system for their Digital Media stuff
Taking recipes and standardizing them and then adding them to my Grocy ERP system.

📆 Someday

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While this isn’t intended as my ‘bucket list,’ these are things I’d like to do:

Travel internationally again. I did a LOT of it in my 20’s, got burned out and really tired of sleeping in hotels, but, I’ve done a fair amount of travel during the 2020’s as COVID-19 hit and there was a period of time where I was functionally homeless, but, I’d like to travel to South Korea, Japan, and China again.
Expand the makerspace community to include DIY electronic projects via open source pick and place machines.
Spend more time with my friends. It was super common for me to take a long weekend and fly or drive and visit those who were close to me, but, due to a series of …unfrotunate dating decisions, I stopped doing that.

🚫 Nah, fam.

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The list of stuff that I’m not interested in:

Leadership of any shape or style. I’m comfortable being the Alpha nerd in the pack, but, I don’t want to be on the board of your non-profit or company.

Adding Slashpages to my sites

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I spent some time today working on getting my blog updated, including adding the list of Slashpages to my blogs that I manage.

New pages include:

/about – a page all about me…
/ai – a page on my website that describes how I use, or don’t use, AI.
/cannon – an encapsulation, in list form, of those things that have most shaped me. A sort of annotated bibliography of influences.
/colophon – a page that describes how the site is made, with what tools, supporting what technologies
/death – a page with instructions for family and friends in case of my demise
/defaults – a list of the apps I use for various tasks, usually based on the list from Hemispheric Views 097
/ideas – things I want to make, or concepts am considering
/interests – what I’m passionate about and what excites me.
/junk – host an indie-web yardsale
/nope – a list of things I don’t like or don’t want to do
/shoebox – A bit of website where for the odds-and-ends.
/someday – things I someday would like to achieve, accomplish, explore, experience, create, learn, understand
/verify – a page on my website to list and prove my online identities
/where – a place to let others know about my current location
/why – an opportunity to say what I care about, what direction you’re heading, and how I hope to exist in the world. A minifesto on the purpose of my site, or my work
/yep – a list of things I agree with or will do

A lot of content for one evening…

Cannon

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Taking a page from Brendan Schlagel, I’ve wanted to start canonizing the things that are super critical to me and have shaped my thoughts, works, and opinions over the years. These are some of my favorites:

Out of the Inner Circle – This book really shaped my love of computer security (and computers in general).
Extreme Privacy: What it takes to disappear – This guide is the bible in my eyes when it comes to securing your online privacy, and I use this book religiously when speaking about privacy.
OSINT: The Authorative Guide to Due Dilligence – This book is one of the few that really opened my eyes to the world of Open Source Intelligence
bash Cookbook: Solutions and examples for Bash Users – This book started my journey for shell scripting.
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas – This book talks about the psychology involved in building addictive gaming systems and UI elements; great if you want to learn about the psychology behind the ‘gamification’ of apps.
My full life: Reflections at ninety – Jimmy Carter’s Autobiography.
My own words – RBG’s Autobiography.
My Life – Bill Clinton’s Autobiography.
A Promised Land – Obama’s Presidential memoir.
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World – Alan Greenspan’s memoirs.
The Art of War – How I learned to negotiate in a corporate world.
Coming Out: An Act of Love – Reading this book solidified my stance on being an ally for those who are LGBTQ+ back in the late 90’s.
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House – Biography about Andrew Jackson

I also regularly keep my Librarything up to date. This lists the books that I’ve purchased and when I’ve added them to my library.

Colophon

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This site is maintained with Hugo, using the archie theme with a heavily inspired terminal.css to maintain the look and feel.

I use google analytics so I know who’s visiting my site, fingerprint.js for browser fingerprinting to track users when they travel, along with LogRocket for session reply and Sentry for error logging.

The site is deployed as static content on AWS S3 and presented via CloudFront, using an OpenTofu module written by my friend Nick.

Interests

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Generally speaking, my interests include:

Cloud technologies
Amateur Astronomy
Amateur Radio and RF in general
Building Makerspaces
Sewing
Metalworking
Blacksmithing
Storm Chasing
STEM in general

Shoebox Stuff

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I’m starting to mess around with Power Glitching, PLC’s, and USB Hacking.

Verify

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You can find me:

uid0 on twitter
uid0 on infosec.exchange
uid0 on github
uid0 on gitlab

🗑️ Junk

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I’ll post random shit that I’m looking for or want to get rid of here…but I’m trying to get my apartment the way I want it first!

🗺️ Where am I?

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You can find me somewhere near 36,-84 or somewhere near 32,-96, or, somewhere near 42,-87.

For exact locations… just ask.

🤖 AI Usage

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All the posts, articles and opinions on these pages are my own: 100% organic and non-AI generated.

Generally speaking, I do not use AI in my blog content. The exception of this is when I’m using my resume generator, I will use AI for generating content for my cover letters to tailor my cover letter to the specifics of the job.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me by emailing hi (at) ianwilson.org.