Michael W. Lucas's Blog, page 49
February 23, 2017
At the GP Central Library 11 March 2017
Libraries are starting to like me. Which is cool, because I like them.
Next Monday night I’ll be talking at the Troy Public Library on High Performance Nonfiction–basically, how I write books. See, I’m on the library’s calendar and everything!
Then on Saturday, 11 March 2017, I’ll be at the Central Branch of the Grosse Pointe Library, 10 AM to 2 PM, for their Write On Pointe local authors fair. I’ll be selling copies of, well, everything I have copies of, I guess?
Stop by. Say hello. Otherwis...
February 21, 2017
“Hi, I’m jkh and I’m a d**k”
I don’t do guest posts here. This blog is my private soapbox. You want to scream into the void? Go get your own soapbox.
Yesterday, I was privy to a private email message discussing a topic I care deeply about. I contacted the author and said “You really need to make this public and give this a wider audience.” His response boiled down to “if I wanted it to get a wider audience, I was welcome to do so myself.” So here’s my first ever guest post, from Jordan K Hubbard, one of the founders of t...
February 15, 2017
My Form Letter Response
Every so often I get an email complaining something like “Why do you put women in your tech books? There really aren’t that many women in computing, and your Social Justice Warrior crap really distracts from the content.”
As a tabletop RPG fan, I think I need a handy chart. Roll 1d6, or just pick your favorite answer!
1) If an extra “s” in front of a pronoun wrecks your concentration, maybe your concentration needs help.
2) That’s weird. I’ve worked with lots of women in technology orgs. Mayb...
February 10, 2017
I’ll be at the Troy Public Library
I’ll be at the Troy Public Library on 27 February, at 7 PM, giving a new talk on writing High Performance Nonfiction. If you want to know how I write my books, come find out.
Please register beforehand at the event site.
I’ve thought of writing a book on writing readable nonfiction for a few years. Giving this talk a few times will help me design that book.
January 23, 2017
Kansas LinuxFest 2017
I’ll be talking at Kansas LinuxFest on May 13-14 2017.
It’s an organized sort of talking, not just my usual disconnected babble. Probably on PAM and sudo.
January 18, 2017
As a Nefarious Media Agent…
(Another “so I can refer back to it later” post)
Every so often I get an email telling me that as a member of the media I have responsibilities. I need to get rid of the clear bias in my books. I’m having trouble figuring out what those biases are, though, as I’ve been told that I’m:
radically pro-BSD radically anti-Linux radically anti-Microsoft radically anti-Oracle radically opposed to commercial software radically opposed to free software radically opposed to sharing radically oppo...January 17, 2017
Sponsorships on “Httpd and Relayd Mastery” available
By somewhat popular demand (“popular” means “more than one person has asked for it,” right?), I’m now offering sponsorships on the OpenBSD httpd and relayd book.
Print sponsors get their name in the print and ebook versions of the book.
Ebook sponsors get their name in the electronic versions.
Sponsors can access the in-progress manuscript, updated whenever I get around to it. The version there now contains most of the httpd parts, as tech reviewed by Reyk.
I did well enough with the FreeBSD...
January 16, 2017
Relayd Auction Results
Bill Allaire wins, with a bid of $1300.
Bill also won the first copy of the second edition of Absolute OpenBSD. The one that got signed and annotated by a bunch of developers.
Bill, send in your donation and send me your receipt, so I can proceed to kick you in the teeth.
January 12, 2017
2017 presentation proposals
I have my usual two annual events that I speak at coming up: BSDCan and Penguicon. I have ideas on what to submit, but thought I’d see if anyone had something they’d like me to present. Things that I can present, that is.
For BSDCan, I’m pondering between a talk on OpenBSD’s web stack (httpd, relayd, and CARP) and a 4-hour ZFS tutorial. I’ve been kicking ZFS a lot the last couple years, and figure folks are sick of it. The relayd book should be out before then.
Last year at Penguicon, I ran 1...
January 6, 2017
Tuckerization Auction Non-Bid Comments Here
If you want to comment on the auction without making a bid, you can make those comments on this post.
