EdTheDev

I help software developers secure their work supporting research and higher education.

Here you may find my occasional blog posts with DevOps recipes or example code in obscure programming languages.

Check out my other Mastodon for silly sketches and art generated using code.

Website: https://edward.delaporte.us/me
Pronouns: He/Him
My Art on Mastodon: https://mastodon.art/@edthedev

Last Notes

2026-07-27 23:25:51 UTC

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Your question led to an interesting thread. Thank you!

2026-07-16 22:44:18 UTC

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I'm self hosting everything I can, right now.
Even services spared by uncontrolled costs have been falling to half assed (AI) DevOps instead.
I'm well past "we can pool resources to do better" and all the way to "fuck it, I'll do it, myself".
This is causing me to look much closer at what the Debian community has been up to, though.
I'm trying to catch up quickly so that I can contribute more, soon.

2026-07-15 02:53:20 UTC

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Nice.
I actually remember exactly the last X-Box game I bought. It was Guardian Heroes, as a digital download attached to my X-Box Live account.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_Heroes
Less than a month after this purchase, someone called Xbox support and stole my account - essentially simply by asking politely of their phone support desk.
With a phone call of my own and solid proof of ownership, I got my account back, except that my (one or two) digital purchases were gone.
My simple polite request to actually restore my account to it's pre-theft state was ignored.
So...I canceled my Live subscription that same week, and I haven't bought anything from X-box / Microsoft games in roughly 15 years, and I haven't recommended anything from either to any gamer friends in an equally long time.
But at least they didn't risk losing themselves $5.00 by restoring my digital purchase of a nearly forgotten Sega Saturn title.

2026-07-15 00:17:21 UTC

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If this verdict had happened sooner, I might still buy X-box games.
Microsoft's unwillingness to make ripped-off (via their own call center) customers accounts whole baffled me.
Oh well. I took my money elsewhere.

2026-06-26 04:00:31 UTC

Linux microblog update:
Dear Arch Linux,
Your guidance is amazing, until we reach the bit about choosing partitions.
Tonight I needed one single "good enough" recipe to start from - but I found a repeat of the ancient text "deep thoughts on partition tables".
Debian is looking nice, this time of year, though.
#linux #chromebook #cfdisk #archlinux #debian

2026-03-07 17:03:24 UTC

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are you on CodeBerg?
It feels like we should start a gardening mod pack or something.

2026-03-07 17:01:44 UTC

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ooh. If you're up for sharing source code, I would love to update my server with your version, as well!

2026-03-06 00:53:38 UTC

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will do. Thanks!

2026-03-06 00:44:20 UTC

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I would be glad to drop by sometime, if you have a server.
My direct contact info is linked fromy profile if prefer not to share details publicly.

2026-02-21 03:26:33 UTC

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wonderful! Can you share a link to your bed update?
I'm busy learning to mod Luanti this week, so in extremely humble thanks, I can offer my garden slug mod as thanks.
https://codeberg.org/EdTheDev/luanti-garden