A Mad Scientist's Notebook

J. Austin Hughey

J. Austin Hughey

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Cloud Software Engineer. Passionate Privacy and Civil Rights Advocate. Sometimes stage actor. Always awesome.

Why I'm Not On LinkedIn

Oct 13, 202210 min read

It's like a drunk, sociopathic chimp that knows everything about you... · I notice patterns, and over the years, I've seen a very disturbing series of...

Why I'm Not On LinkedIn

Installing Homebrew on Arch (Manjaro) Linux

Mar 27, 20221 min read

TLDR: pacman -Syu libxcrypt-compat · Being a MacOS user refugee, I've long appreciated and used Homebrew as a user-mode package manager. While Linux...

Installing Homebrew on Arch (Manjaro) Linux

This Is My Stack

Mar 24, 20224 min read

There are many like it, but this one is mine. · This post is a work in progress and will likely change over time. In an effort to create future reference...

This Is My Stack

PXE Boot: pixiecore + netboot.xyz = Easy Mode

Mar 23, 20223 min read

No more USB sticks, no more ISOs, and no more maintenance! · Problem: you want to quickly boot something over network (PXE boot) to install an operating...

PXE Boot: pixiecore + netboot.xyz = Easy Mode

Safari vs. Vue.js: A fix for the broken live-reload in dev mode

Jun 11, 20203 min read

I happen to like Apple's Safari browser, and I'd like to use it when developing stuff with Vue.js. I ran into a problem with this, however: Safari...

Safari vs. Vue.js: A fix for the broken live-reload in dev mode

Deleting a Windows 10 Storage Space Using PowerShell

Oct 3, 20184 min read

This CLI method works where the GUI fails. · If you tried to delete a Storage Space via the built-in Windows GUI and it just hangs forever, try this...

Deleting a Windows 10 Storage Space Using PowerShell