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Great Blue Heron

Trans: Latin prefix implying “across” or “Beyond”, often used in gender nonconforming situations Scend: Archaic word describing a strong “surge” or “wave”, originating with 15th century english sailors Survival: 15th century english compound word describing an existence only worth transcending

Jess Sullivan

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06-23 Less noteworthy The tiny SSH trick for letting a USB KVM talk to a locked Machardware
06-09 Hacking Canon MegaTank and clearing 5B00 Lock: A Native Waste-Ink Reset over USB with Ghidra, Frida and friendshardware
06-08 Glue You Can See in UVhardware
06-08 Week Notes: scroll wheels, spring legs, and chasing the sunpersonal
05-29 Gingersnap Cookies (from a milk-free, soy-free recipe card)tutorial
05-11 Trashmonitor to oggle my goggles and behold the blinkenlightshardware
05-03 Hacking around with XGS-PON: Fiber ISPs, WAS-110 Modules & Mikrotikdevops
04-30 Little Zig Libraries for Fruit-Shaped Escape Hatchessoftware

Full archive at /blog — 141 entries →

Constellation · grouped by current category & tag metadata

The accessible, deterministic view behind the masthead — the same nodes, an honest label, keyboard-native disclosures. Not an embedding, not t-SNE.

devops · 14 entries
  1. Hacking around with XGS-PON: Fiber ISPs, WAS-110 Modules & Mikrotik
  2. Smol DarwinNicUtil Has Docs and installers now, yay
  3. WinRM Quotas, Plugin Confusion, and Why PSRP Has Been the Answer Since 2018
  4. Aperture, Tagged Devices, and the tsnet Escape Hatch
  5. KVM does Fruit: Xcode from QEMU
  6. ...Ever tried to Chrome Remote ➡️ Ubuntu Budgie? xD
  7. clipi CLI!
  8. QEMU for Raspian ARM!
  9. Decentralized Pi Video Monitoring w/ motioneye & BATMAN
  10. Persistent, Live Ubuntu for College
  11. Recycled Personal \"Cloud Computing\" under NAT
  12. Github UPDATE 9.12.18:  Shiny Apps
  13. Off-Grid File Sharing with SAMBA / GL.iNet
  14. Using ESRI ArcGIS / ArcMap in the AWS Cloud
ecology · 35 entries
  1. Bits & Bobs, Mushstools & Toadrooms
  2. Merlin AI Demos!
  3. Warbler Trillers of the Charles
  4. Birding at Plumb Island!
  5. EBPP: My Epic Birding Prediction Project in R
  6. Birding Beyond Binos: 5 Bird apps vs. “the Guide”.
  7. Rugby Morning #3.6
  8. Rugby Morning #2
  9. Wolf Pine @ Fox Park: Silence?
  10. Pre-dawn Fox Park Lot Walk (Birding by Ear)
  11. Hunting for Trees = BIRDS
  12. MEGA LANGDON
  13. Fox Park to Langdon: Morning Birds!
  14. The Big Len List
  15. Langdon Woods with Kurt: Plants!
  16. Addendum to \"Secret Beach Area\" Natural History Class Walk
  17. Fox Park #18: 4/19/17, In Class Roamings
  18. Fox Park #16 and #17: 4/16/17,Big Toad: Small Vireo. Yay.
  19. Fox Park #14: 4/10/17, \"1 if by land, 16 if by ear\"
  20. Fox Park #15: 4/12/17, “1 if by land, 17 if by ear”
  21. Bird Observations Today- Langdon Woods
  22. Parking Lot/Sit Spot @ Fox Park #12: 4/3/17, Owling 2 Hours Before Sunrise
  23. Wolf Pine @ Fox Park #11: 4/1/17, It Is A Snow-Show, Debunking The Melanistic Dogamount
  24. Parking Lot/Sit Spot @ Fox Park #10: 3/31/17, Whoo's Clues
  25. Beaver Dam @ Quincy Bog #1: 3/30/17, The World Has Gone Mad
  26. Wolf Pine @ Fox Park #9: 3/26/17, Everyone Is On Vacation
  27. Wolf Pine @ Fox Park #8: 3/16/17, Someone Bumped The Snow Machine
  28. Sit spot #N.1: The GHO Talk
  29. Wolf Pine @ Fox Park #7: 3/12/17, Surprise! It's Cold
  30. Wolf Pine @ Fox Park #6: 3/10/17, Theoretical Owls and Real Tree Bark
  31. Wolf Pine @ Fox Park #4: 3/5/17, Noon-ish time
  32. Wolf Pine @ Fox Park #3: 3/3/17, Noon-ish time
  33. Wolf Pine @ Fox Park #2 (2/27/17)
  34. Wolf Pine @ Fox Park #1 +Bonus Winter Birds
  35. Opportunistic birding: 14/12/2016
hardware · 25 entries
  1. The tiny SSH trick for letting a USB KVM talk to a locked Mac
  2. Hacking Canon MegaTank and clearing 5B00 Lock: A Native Waste-Ink Reset over USB with Ghidra, Frida and friends
  3. Glue You Can See in UV
  4. Trashmonitor to oggle my goggles and behold the blinkenlights
  5. Host Characterization with Chapel, Fancy Testing & Dhall
  6. From Bricked to Recovered: The Story of Hacking an NVMe SSD Back to Life
  7. XRAM Injection: Bypassing USB Bridge Whitelists to Recover NVMe Drives
  8. Ligature Test Fixture
  9. Turkey Probe
  10. Fusion 360 for 3d Printing w/ Jess!
  11. Running Cornell's DLA Makerspace
  12. Purple Prius Parts
  13. Dover's Enclosure
  14. Prius, Printers
  15. D&M Shields - Fusion 360
  16. Early Hardware and Maker Projects
  17. Solar upgrades!
  18. 840 Watts of Solar Power!
  19. MPCNC: It moves!
  20. Preview: Learning Fusion 360 and Next-Level CAD Craziness
  21. Building Electrostatic \"Earspeakers\"
  22. DIY Electrostatic Amp Options
  23. Required Custom Tools?
  24. The Audeasy Build
  25. Waxwing Audio:
music · 7 entries
  1. Morning Metal 4.22.21 “Sleepish”
  2. ...In other news...
  3. While at a safe distance...
  4. Pages, fresh from the book
  5. Early Morning Guitar Session. ala Laundry
  6. Music Sketches 2: Rethinking \"Canon in D\" \"guitar\" Discipline & Tone pt. 1
  7. Music Sketches 1: Playing with rhythm, division, and jazzy chords
personal · 21 entries
  1. Week Notes: scroll wheels, spring legs, and chasing the sun
  2. Week Notes: Indeterminism, Passkeys, and Spring
  3. Updated Resume & CV — March 2026
  4. Week Notes: Cyborgs, Servers, and Sending
  5. What have I been up to these last few months?
  6. This and That!
  7. Datasets, Plots, Graphs, Charts
  8. This and that, bits and bobs…
  9. Chindōgu ASCII art
  10. Obliterate non-removable MDM profiles enforced by Apple's Device Enrollment Program
  11. This, That, etc
  12. OSS+ELC -> Monday
  13. oes
  14. ppe & whatnot
  15. When it must be Windows....
  16. Summer 2019 Update!
  17. New Business Site- Up And Running!
  18. pt. 1: Reflecting On Stunt Culture (Theories and Frisbee)
  19. pt. 2: Reflecting On Stunt Culture (Scooters)
  20. Boutique everything: When The Hobby Grows Up
  21. Develop A Limitless & Habitual \"SoIThen_SoICould_\" Ethos
photography · 6 entries
  1. Research Year Two: Three Photos
  2. Signs of Thoughts of Possible Spring?
  3. Gallery of my \"proper photos\"- NH warbler research
  4. Gallery of \"Warblers in the Hand\"
  5. New Photo/Promotional Media Business pages in the works!
  6. Example Photo Work
software · 19 entries
  1. Little Zig Libraries for Fruit-Shaped Escape Hatches
  2. I wrote a mutual aid mental health service
  3. AccuWix Report CLI
  4. Lets write a simple, efficient and fast flask-based image server in an afternoon
  5. Makerspace financial reporting w/ ipython
  6. naive distance measurements with opencv
  7. some boilerplate code, ?, etc
  8. Client-side, asynchronous HTTP methods- TypeScript
  9. Parse fdisk -l in Python
  10. Some GDAL shell macros from R instead of rgdal
  11. Small Updates to GDAL Notes
  12. Succession, Warblers, and GIS
  13. Open Source Collaboration and Higher Education
  14. Notes on a Free and Open Source Notes App:  Joplin
  15. Querying KML Point Data with QGIS and R
  16. Musings On Chapel Language and Parallel Processing
  17. Shiny App-specific Repo
  18. New App:  KML Search and Convert
  19. Using ESRI ArcGIS / ArcMap on Mac OSX: 2 methods
tutorial · 14 entries
  1. Gingersnap Cookies (from a milk-free, soy-free recipe card)
  2. The eBird API & regionCode
  3. Install Adobe Applications on AWS WorkSpaces
  4. Convert .heic -> .png
  5. Deploy Shiny R apps along Node.JS
  6. Quick fix: 254 character limit in ESRI Story Map?
  7. GDAL for R Server on Ubuntu - KML Spatial Libraries and More
  8. INFO: Deploy a Shiny web app in R using AWS (EC2 Red Hat)
  9. How To Generate convex hull polygons and centroids from KML
  10. How to Query KML point data as CSV using QGIS and R
  11. Gathering point data using Compass 55 on Apple iOS
  12. Intro to the AWS Cloud 9 IDE
  13. How to make a AWS R server
  14. (beta) - How to build \"The Phone Charger\"
pulse · 3 entries
  1. Static Pulse projection is now sourced from Tinyland review records.
  2. transscendsurvival.org stays a checked-in static consumer while the broker and delivery planes mature.
  3. 2x Northern Cardinal