Eldridge Alexander
Project Erised
System-wide ad and tracker blocking on Android
We Measure The Economy Wrong
An overview of common economic measurements and how they can be improved.
In Defense of Webauthn
Some minor nitpicking around Webauthn and how it has the ability to replace passwords.
Ignite Talk: Universities In Society
My talk about the effects of outside influences that are increasing how much they affect universites, and how that in turn is affecting students, professors, and administrators
Dynflare: Dynamic DNS for Cloudflare
A script that continually checks your public IP address and updates your Cloudflare DNS records accordingly.
Proposal For Improving Social Security Numbers
In the wake of the Equifax breach, a proposal for how the US can transition to a new Federal identification system with security as a main component.
FreeIPA and Raspbian
I use FreeIPA heavily to manage my lab at home however their client wasn't available on Raspbian, so I documented the stpes it took to get it working on my Pi.
LDAP With FreeIPA and Golden Gate Proxies
I wanted to have a complete centralized authentication at home, but also wanted as secure of a way as possible to overrid that of my LDAP server were to go down. This documents my "war room" configurations.
The Myth of the Necessary Jerk
There's a prevailing myth in popular culture and the tech industry of the "Necessary Jerk" - a jerk who is so singularly gifted in their field that they're completely irreplaceable. Here I argue why that's not only incorrect, but a stance that will actively harm groups and businesses.
Golden Gate and Let's Encrypt
Utilizing Cerbot's "webroot" plugin with an nginx reverse proxy on a dedicated server or VM.
SSH Relay for ChromeOS
What it took to get an SSH bastion host working with ChromeOS clients.
Project Transmute
A script I wrote to automatically detect and convert video files to a travel optimized format.