Evan Pratten

Blog

The following is a list of articles I've written. This is also available in RSS format.

2025

2025-01-12 Implantable SSH credentials

2024

2024-12-13 Coercing a Magic MIFARE credential into being an iPhone-compatible NFC tag
2024-12-07 Better date handling for projects migrated to Gitea
2024-11-24 The project I will never finish
2024-07-26 Taking a radio camping
2024-04-27 Who are the upstreams for AMPRNet?
2024-01-15 Digest Bot
2024-01-14 Custom lighting for my bookshelf
2024-01-10 A quick introduction to OpenSCAD
2024-01-08 Git Aliases
2024-01-07 Building QMK Keyboard Firmware Out of Tree
2024-01-05 WineASIO, Bottles, and Ableton

2023

2023-10-20 Authoring Blog Posts with Obsidian
2023-07-07 Building a VPN with an AMPRNet BGP allocation
2023-07-05 Setting up a static DNF repository
2023-06-15 Rainbow keyboard
2023-05-01 I performed a button swap on my mouse
2023-03-23 What are people actually doing with APRS?
2023-03-21 A script that hides AI topics from Hacker News
2023-02-15 Some lesser known WireGuard settings
2023-02-07 Blatant self-advertising on the IPv6 Canvas
2023-01-17 Lazy search for Mastodon accounts

2022

2022-12-07 I re-implemented ls to query the Steam API
2022-10-02 An analysis of personal ASNs in the wild
2022-09-09 Website updates
2022-06-26 Rickrolling the internet
2022-06-23 Using a Steam Controller with the Nintendo Switch
2022-06-13 Getting Visual Paradigm to launch on Fedora 36
2022-05-21 Field Log: First look at the NanoVNA
2022-05-18 Commit syncing across hosted GIT instances
2022-04-06 Making my UDM-Pro scream
2022-01-19 Monocular depth mapping in Blender
2022-01-06 Unfinished projects and failed ideas

2021

2021-12-03 A rusty guide to quaternions
2021-11-14 Adventures in BGP: routing my own public IPv4 address space
2021-09-28 An overview of the tech on a complex FRC robot
2021-07-07 Configuring a native SSH server on Windows 10
2021-04-20 Building a cheap APRS digipeater
2021-03-14 How I flashed QMK to my Vortex Core
2021-02-25 Using KBFS as a makeshift maven server
2021-01-16 Tunneling a printer from a home network to a VPN

2020

2020-12-31 2020 Wrap-Up
2020-12-19 How I have tweaked my Minecraft client to be 'just right'
2020-12-04 Upgrading my chromebook
2020-11-21 Connecting to a Minecraft server over IRC
2020-11-06 My first mechanical keyboard: The Vortex Core
2020-10-24 Using Bazel to create Minecraft modpacks
2020-10-15 Mounting Google Drive accounts as network drives
2020-10-01 Reading metadata from a bitmap file
2020-09-24 My workflow: video conference edition
2020-09-17 Building a mini maven server
2020-09-10 Integrating GitHub Codespaces with FRC
2020-09-03 Compiling AVR-C code with a modern build system
2020-08-23 Taking notes with Markdown and LaTeX
2020-08-13 Notes from FRC: Autonomous point-to-point navigation
2020-08-03 Notes from FRC: Converting joystick data to tank-drive outputs
2020-06-05 Flashing code to a 32u4 chip
2020-05-19 Running RoboRIO firmware inside Docker
2020-04-20 Ludum Dare 46: Jamming with friends
2020-02-21 Robot reveal: Darth Raider
2020-01-20 Compiling BrainFuck with a shell script

2019

2019-12-11 I used cron for the first time
2019-11-20 Programming a live robot
2019-10-05 Using an RNN to generate Bill Wurtz notes
2019-09-11 Building images from binary data
2019-09-07 Doing Python OOP the wrong way
2019-08-27 I did some cleaning
2019-08-24 Keyed data encoding with Python
2019-08-12 How I set up ひらがな input on my laptop
2019-08-10 My weird piece of EDC
2019-07-15 Mind map generation with Python
2019-07-13 Taking a look back at GMAD
2019-07-06 Scraping FRC team's GitHub accounts to gather large amounts of data
2019-07-01 devDNS
2019-06-27 Hunting snakes with a shotgun
2019-06-27 I had some fun with a router
2019-06-26 BashSmash
2019-06-24 The language hunt: Part 2
2019-06-23 I gave Google's CTF a short try and learned a thing or two
2019-06-21 What I have learned from 2 years of FRC programming
2019-06-16 Graphing the relation between wheels and awards for FRC
2019-06-12 GitHub's CSS is boring. So I refreshed the design
2019-04-30 The language hunt
2019-02-20 Robot reveal: HATCHField

2018

2018-06-27 Using a python script to create devRant posts based on the style and content of another user

2017

2017-11-24 We lost a weather balloon in another country