https://tris.fyi/blog/ Tris Emmy Wilson's lab notebook, random thoughts, and writeups of other projects. en-US https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Tris's Website Generator blog@tris.fyi (Tris Emmy Wilson) https://tris.fyi/blog/airport-chapel-notes.html Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/i-was-the-bells.html Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/one-month-with-beeminder.html Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/2025-11-books-i-am-reading.html Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/thoughts-about-gender.html some thoughts about gender and my sense of self Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/late-april-updates.html Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/how-to-check-out-496-items-in-libby-at-the-same-time.html Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/desaturating-grayscale-with-sway.html Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/paper-delivery-for-action-network-letter-campaigns.html Getting your supporters to send emails to legislators is great, but dropping paper on their desks can be even better! Here is a tool to help you do that. Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/dinner-rolls.html Thu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/jambalaya.html Thu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/mbta-cab-signaling-indicator.html Wed, 27 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/asr-data.html how to plot nearly every antenna structure in the US on a map in (n) easy steps! Mon, 18 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/elm327-on-nixos.html Sat, 10 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/every-commuter-railroad.html Fri, 22 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/huntsville-closing-thoughts.html a personal piece about moving away from the city I lived in for seven years Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/toki-sewi-tawa-mun.html a prayer to the moon Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/bicycling-in-alabama.html References to a few Alabama Code sections and city ordinances that I find useful to have handy while cycling or planning a ride. Tue, 20 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/athena-via-cloudformation.html The correct CloudFormation YAML incantations to get an S3 data source showing up in Amazon Athena (backed by AWS Glue). Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/local-gov-notes-starmap.html A list of projects I was once working on to keep track of Huntsville local government. Mon, 19 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/how-i-use-taskwarrior.html Notes on my todo list workflow using Taskwarrior; future work. Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/tpm-keys.html How to set up and use a hardware-backed SSH key tied to your system in a NixOS environment. Thu, 18 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/2021-aoc-retrospective.html Musings on the 2021 Advent of Code event: how I played, what I thought about the puzzles, my plans for 2022. Fri, 24 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/test-smallstep-ca.html How to quickly bypass the usual safety checks when using the Smallstep CLI to get a CA up and running quickly. Fri, 19 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/polycom-provisioning-notes.html Notes on the XML format used to provision Polycom phones. Mon, 21 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/cloud-init-proxmox.html Notes on making the Debian cloud images work in Proxmox. Thu, 15 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/pomodoro-tool.html How to install and use my MQTT-based Pomodoro system. Fri, 09 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/mikrotik-ptp-latency-spikes.html Why your 802.11 point-to-point link with a MikroTik device as client breaks periodically and how to fix it. Tue, 19 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/windows-ikev2-client-notes.html Various notes on weird behavior exhibited by the built-in Windows IKEv2 VPN client. Fri, 04 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/powershell-remoting-permissions.html Fri, 23 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/legal-name.html A detailed how-to guide on changing your legal name in Madison County, based on my experiences in September 2020 and kept up to date with feedback from the local trans community. Sat, 17 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/debian-release-pinning.html Notes on using apt pinning to mix Debian packages from different distribution releases. Sat, 17 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/office-365-sku-list.html A link to Microsoft's product code / SKU list for Office 365. Thu, 15 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/self-signed-certificate-for-ad-ds-ldaps.html Notes on using a self-signed certificate for TLS-secured LDAP on an Active Directory domain controller. Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://tris.fyi/blog/flask-test-client-custom-response-wrappers.html Notes on using a custom response class when testing Flask apps. Tue, 13 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT