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This site was started in 1999 at the now closed and migrated dmiessler.com, and initially included writings that I had started from 1996.

It now serves as the umbrella for all of my life projects.

Technology stack


Hosting: AWS, Medium instance
OS: Ubuntu
Web Server: Nginx
Application Server: PHP-FPM
Caching: Nginx in-memory
Reverse Proxy: Cloudflare


Publishing


Content for this site is created in Vim and in the built-in WordPress editor.
Source code is managed with Git.
The site’s fonts are Equity and Concourse, by Matthew Butterick.


Tools


I work at a Rewew desk, by Herman Miller
I sit at an Embody chair by the same manufacturer.
My main computer is a space grey 2017 MacBook Pro with 16GB of memory.
I create my podcast on an ElectroVoice RE27ND.


Software


My podcast is produced with Adobe Audition CC.


Concepts


My podcast and newsletter is called Unsupervised Learning, which is a type of Machine Learning that helps identify patterns in things that might previously have been missed. It also doubles as a statement around learning being best when it’s unstructured and free.

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I do a weekly show called Unsupervised Learning, where I curate the most interesting stories in infosec, technology, and humans, and talk about why they matter. You can subscribe here.

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