Evan Pratten

Blog

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

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