The World Wide Web pages of Adam Carpenter (53hornet)
Now
What am I up to now?
Work
- Refactor, refactor, refactor
- Spurring attention toward technical debt remediation
- Lunch and learns on network security and probing, parallel processing
Hobbies
- New brake calipers and tires for Ol' Blue!
- New DnD campaign!
- Writing lots of fiction, esp. short stories
Life
- Dolphin-watching on the James River via Jetski (happy Clementine!)
- Praying for owls to show up in my owl house
- Hitting 30, #oof
Last updated 2025-10-21
Posts
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2025-10-20 - On Stranded Wings: Second Voyage of the Aerie
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2025-10-19 - On Weightless Wings: First Voyage of the Aerie
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2025-03-31 - Drive Like You Drive Blue
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2024-10-06 - Tunes for Flying
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2024-04-30 - Qrilear the Aarakocra ranger: My introduction to DnD
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2024-02-19 - A new Hudson Hornet aluminum cylinder head: Super Power Dome II Twin Vortex
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2024-02-05 - Six reasons not to engine swap your Hudson Hornet
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2024-01-24 - Are all Hudson Hornets hard to start in winter?
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2023-06-07 - The study of Computer Science: Computational problem solving with Rust 01
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2023-06-07 - Introduction: Computational problem solving with Rust 00
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2023-05-13 - Codewars "Tic-Tac-Toe Checker": Practical Rust (beginner)
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2023-05-04 - Automate with local hooks Practical Git advanced
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2023-04-26 - Rebase to prepare your commits for publishing Practical Git (intermediate)
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2023-04-19 - Writing user-friendly string functions: Practical Rust
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2023-04-12 - Git-bisect: Find Breaking Commits Easily
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2023-04-08 - Git pull --rebase? Why you might want to!
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2023-03-18 - George Washington's Farewell Address
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2022-12-02 - Gatsby's Ride
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2022-10-20 - A Collection of Airship Documentaries
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2022-04-22 - The Worst Programming Language Ever - Mark Rendle
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2021-12-15 - Rescuing FreeBSD, the UNIX Way (And a Free Upgrade Too!)
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2021-11-28 - Write Your Own SSH Tarpit in Rust with async-std
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2021-10-22 - Forced Downloads in the Browser Via HTTP
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2021-10-12 - Altruistic Angelshark
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2021-10-01 - Shroud Your Rad for an Ice-cold Hudson!
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2021-09-26 - Useful Shell Scripting and Bulk Renaming Files with Vim
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2021-05-23 - Web Designers, Please Don't Animate Page Titles
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2021-04-20 - How to Make Your Website Boring and Why!
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2021-03-19 - How to Automate Certbot Renewal with HAPRoxy (on FreeBSD)
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2021-02-12 - Louis Vierne Is a BAMF (and Proof That Organists Are Metal)
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2021-01-28 - Undefined? JavaScript Is Undefined.
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2021-01-15 - Root on ZFS: A ZPool of Mirror VDEVs
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2021-01-15 - Adam's 2020 (Quarantine) Reading List
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2020-12-29 - Antivirus Software is a Hack
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2020-12-22 - Why Does Everyone Use Adobe Acrobat [Reader]?
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2020-12-08 - Useful Sprint Planning from a Certified Scrum Master
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2020-12-04 - AOC 2020 Day 1 in CBM Basic
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2020-12-01 - 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔲𝔦𝔡𝔢𝔰
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2020-11-30 - Titanic's Last Signals
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2020-07-26 - Now This is a Minimal Install!
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2020-07-11 - Why Computer Science at William and Mary
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2020-04-10 - Wedding Photo Debacle
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2020-04-10 - Obligatory COVID-19 Post
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2019-09-28 - How I Do Data Recovery
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2019-08-30 - Left Lane is for Passing, Not Cruising
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2019-08-11 - I Married My Best Friend!
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2019-07-28 - Finally Found a Drink I Like
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2019-07-21 - Dancing the Shag and The [New] Lion Ling
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2019-07-04 - YABS: Yet Another Bad Shop
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2019-07-04 - Offloading GoPro Footage the Easy Way!
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2019-06-07 - How to Start and Drive a Hudson Hornet
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2019-04-06 - Why Have a Web Site in 2019?