Hi folks! BSDCan dominated this month. It was good. It wasn’t the biggest con we’ve had, but for the first year back it was nice. A handful of folks said they wouldn’t attend because the pandemic is still raging, and that while we would be masked the rest of the world isn’t. I can’t […]
Greetings and felicitations to my esteemed Patronizers. Been working solely on “Run Your Own Mail Server.” I think I finally have an order for the content, which makes the actual writing possible. I’ll have cycle back and backfill facts, but the skeleton should hold. This part of the process always surprises me. Who thought I […]
Our hopme has radiator heat. The air does not move unless I move it. Fortunately there’s enough seepage around the windows to prevent anoxia, but after all these months the house has picked up a certain aroma that can only be described as “The Lucases have been inside for too long.” The office window is […]
I am reminded, once again, that the Muse is a jerk. My fail-forward goals for 2023 were pretty straightforward: write two tech books and 3-4 novels. The publicity efforts of Triple Threat February scared off the Muse, however. Writing a hundred words of ad copy demands far more creativity than writing a hundred words of […]
One of the benefits offered in the Prohibition Orcs kickstarter was an online release party. My author friends assure me that this is a thing, and that people will show up. We’ll find out. The conversation will wander randomly, although given the topic I feel somewhat compelled to start off with “Orcs, amirite?” During today’s […]
I am a victim of my own success. Yay me? All of the Prohibition Orcs and OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems sponsor gifts and rewards and kickstartings and preorders are fulfilled. My plate is clear to make more words. Except for filling out the tax paperwork, that is. Last year I waited until early March and the […]
Welcome to 2023. So far, it has little to say for itself other than “Lucas still has poor scheduling.” But this time, it’s not my fault. Last year was thin on books. I shipped DNSSEC Mastery 2nd edition to print backers last spring. Letters to ed(1) came out, which didn’t seem to merit a mailing […]
I’ve said a bunch of times that my Patronizers make a big difference in my life, and it came into focus this morning. Y’all give me tooth money. Bad teeth don’t run in my family, they gallop. I brush, I floss, I use the water-pik and the fluoride and the 12-horsepower gum sander, but my […]
Yes, an extra post with not one but two updates! Posting early so interested folks can mark their calendars. Last December, I opened the usual video hangout to everyone who backs me. I forgot to show up. Completely on-brand for me, of course. I hadn’t gotten to the dojo all week and made myself get […]
Ah, November. The time EDT becomes EST and everyone in Michigan goes to sleep. Michigan is in Eastern Time, which is the same as New York City. We’re six hundred miles west of them, so our experience of Eastern Time is very different. I’m all for the Sun being overhead at noon, but that happens […]
