I use AWS Route53 for DNS for one of my domains. While setting up Let’s Encrypt certificates on a reverse proxy, it occurred to me that I could share my opinions on managing credentials for this type of operation. Sure, no one asked and it’s entirely possible that no one... [Read More]

Over the last two days I finally built my first custom mechanical keyboard. I have been curious about it for a while, and recently saw a tweet about it that renewed my interest. As a complete newb in this arena, what tipped the scales was the tweet thread included some... [Read More]

UPDATE 2022-12-09 I finally got around to updating the git repo to ensure clean history with no sensitive data and made it public! You can take a look here: Dav’s Dotfiles [Read More]

I recently did a search for “Blog of Eternal Stench” only to discover that the name is not terribly original. In fact, I lost count of how many blogs I ran across with that name. The oldest I found started in 2003 and I’ve had this domain since 2000, so... [Read More]