Colorado sends mail-in ballots. Typically I vote early. I’m going to change my strategy for the next Super Tuesday.

This website is now on IPFS. What does that mean for you? Well, nothing, really, unless you’re cool enough to run your own IPFS node/gateway.

What does that mean for me? A few extra steps when updating the website. I’ll work on automating it. Maybe.

Someone just suggested that Tesla add a “duress PIN” that silently notifies emergency services that you are being carjacked. One of the responses argued that, while a nice idea, you would likely forget both PINs under stress. That reminded me of a time I was in a car accident.

I spend a lot of time trying to make the digital infrastrucure my family uses safe, secure, and – to the extent possible – convenient for them.

And I feel incredibly unappreciated.

I moved off of Gmail back to my own servers. Why self-host my email again after all these years?

Recently I purchased the domain dpcn.us. Ever since then there has been a torrent of spam calls cascading into my telephone number. (I’ve been receiving a lot of spam emails, too, but those are less disruptive.) You see, the .us TLD doesn’t allow registrants to hide their identities. Perhaps that’s why the domains are so cheap.

So why am I not complaining?

Why did I start DPCN? It’s simple. And complicated.

I’m starting a ham radio network and I’m calling it Digital Private Calling Network, or DPCN.

Trunking, private calling, text messaging, centralized codeplug management. Join us!