Reverse Engineer Docker Images by Examining the Internals of How Docker Images Store Data — TL;DR In this story, we’re going to reverse engineer Docker images by looking at how Docker images store data, how to use tools to look at the different aspects of the image, and how to create tools like Dedockify that use Python Docker APIs to create Dockerfiles. Introduction As public Docker registries…

Since our local ad-hoc maker community of strangers bootstrapped the start of the maker movement in Dallas over a decade ago, Dallas Makerspace hasn’t been the only epicenter of maker culture. A handful of community makerspaces have come and gone. But a new type of makerspace has spread widely throughout…

An Elementry View of What We Do and Don’t Know About Black Holes I asked my 10-year-old son, “What do you think is inside a black hole?” “Nothing,” he said. “Just the void of space and time.” When I asked how he knew this, he said that he just guessed. …

An Exploration of the Potential of AI-Assisted Content From 2020 — The following was composed on November 29, 2020. I was four years into my Ph.D. studies in Computer Science and had just begun experimenting with AIDungeon, a paid AI-assisted text-based adventure game service powered by GPT-3. AIDungeon was a somewhat secretive backdoor to GPT-3 at a time when GPT-3 was…

Dave is a perfectly suitable name for any marked man. — This is a piece of flash fiction I wrote in 2015. It was never published. It was, however, passed around under a pseudonym among friends who understood the technical and socioeconomic premise of the story. That year, I was reviewing submissions for an anthology project, and I included this story…

A Mother’s Day Recipe That I Continue to Dedicate to My Ex-wife — I am never one for following recipes — I prefer to improvise in the kitchen like it’s an expression of my soul, not unlike playing solo jazz on an instrument. I’m always coming up with my own unique dishes using up whatever leftovers or neglected food items I have laying…

TL;DR: The Smoking Man is a complex character who is portrayed as a villain but is revealed to be a hero. This is a 2022 retrospect. I was a senior in high school when X-Files first aired in 1993. Whenever it came on, my dad would watch it. Although I was never as big of a fan as he was, I’d always come running over to sit down and watch it with him whenever I heard…

Learn How to Avoid Being Exploited By a Narcissist By Following These Tips — I seem to be a magnet for narcissists. At the same time, I’ve had plenty of people in my life call me one. Many of them were narcissists themselves. Others were simply being insulting. More often, that’s how I hear this word thrown around — as an insult. However, the…

For those who care about such blights on the Dallas Maker community, it was upheld by a Texas Applet Court that Andrew LeCody’s (a.k.a. aceat64) lawsuit against rival former Dallas Makerspace board members Barbara Kris Anderson (known for her creative works of art), Charles Baber (known for his involvement in…