Faraday Bags for a Protest
01/23/2026
Introduction I attended a protest in October last year and decided to take some extra precautions with my phone usage. It has been widely reported that Cell-Site Simulators (CSS) are...
#privacy
Using a Loop in Bash to Modify Filenames Containing Spaces
11/23/2025
I often have to batch rename a list of files. I self-host a media server, and occasionally when I add new music, the filenames need to be adjusted. Perhaps they...
#bash
#scripting
Building a Firefox Browser Extension - Part Four
08/05/2025
My extension is complete! I submitted it to Mozilla Add-ons in mid-July and it was approved a few days later (addons.mozilla.org). Also, the source code can be found on Codeberg...
#internet
#javascript
Building a Firefox Browser Extension - Part Three
06/21/2025
As is often the case, I reached an inflection point while tackling this project: I went from trying to simply understand the structure of Firefox extensions to having concrete...
#internet
#javascript
Building a Firefox Browser Extension - Part Two
06/16/2025
When my browser extension is complete, it will need to highlight any dead links it finds in the page. To accomplish this, I’ve been experimenting with the find API, using...
#internet
#javascript
Building a Firefox Browser Extension - Part One
06/06/2025
Background Transforming my Programming Log into this website has proven to be quite an undertaking, and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it. The log consists of five giant markdown files, one for...
#internet
#javascript
Tetration and Iterated Log
06/01/2025
Introduction I wrote this bit about an obscure mathematical concept, Tetration, in January 2024. At the time, I was taking an online course called Algorithms for Searching, Sorting, and Indexing...
#mathematics
#algorithms
From Plex to Jellyfin
05/22/2025
On April 29th, Plex increased the prices of its Plex pass subscription plans an d moved some key features behind that paywall. After that date, a Plex pass would be...
#server
#jellyfin
A Bash Script for Jekyll Development
05/19/2025
I'm a fan of the static site generator Jekyll. It can do as much or as little as you want it to do, simply providing the directory structure or organizing...
#bash
#jekyll
Static vs. Dynamic Arrays
09/15/2024
What is an Array? An array is one of the simplest data structures available to the programmer. It stores elements of a given data type, e.g. int, float, char, contiguously...
#dsa
RSA Encryption - A Walkthrough
09/03/2024
RSA Python Code Introduction I’ve written this walkthrough in an effort to understand the RSA encryption algorithm (Rivest, Shamir, Adleman). I started with some basic research, sifting through valuable sources...
#cryptography
#mathematics
Hasse Diagrams with Rust
07/31/2024
While studying Chapter 0 of the book Introductory Discrete Mathematics in my spare time, I decided to write a program that could generate a Hasse Diagram from a partially-ordered set....
#mathematics
#dsa
#rust
Hello, World!
07/23/2024
I’m a Music Instructor working to become a Software Engineer. I’ve been teaching 1-on-1 guitar, bass, and ukulele lessons with over 40 students a week for the past five years....
#misc