Things I've written

My blog has nearly everything posted in chronological order, with tags that link to related posts and, if you prefer, an Atom feed that you're welcome to subscribe to.

Technical articles

• About Perl; and Mojolicious
• About security; and cryptography
• About system administration; and Ansible
• Understanding sudoers(5) syntax

About git, including:

• Using Git with a central repository
• Using Git to manage a web site

About birds, including:

• Articles about bird nomenclature
• Translations from “Synopsis Methodica Avium et Piscium”

Other assorted writings

• Three years in consumer court
• Other adventures with bureaucracy in India
• Reviews of books, products, software

Sometimes I also write about things like buying LPG on the black market or the bitterness of cucumbers, and I just stick them all under “misc”.

Learning by redoing

Doing something new is fun and educational, but sometimes I've found that I learn a lot more when I do the same thing again in a slightly different way.

• A tale of two fondants
• Two coffee grinders

Travels

• Travelogues
• Bird-watching journeys (and shorter trip reports)

Transcribed Anna Domino lyrics

• Mysteries of America
• This Time

Published elsewhere...

• RFCs 5034 (POP+SASL) and 5802 (SCRAM)
• Linux manual pages for gettid(2), tkill(2), and posix_fadvise(2)
• Occasional articles for perl.com (cryptography, data structures).