Lyle Seaman

networking, security infra and filesystems kernel hacker turned application programmer, SRE and engineering manager, Lyle traded tilting at windmills for viking at Vikings but couldn't catch any.

Feb 2026

When All You Have is a Nail

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...everything looks like a hammer.

"Where is this plane?" wondered erffrfez (hope I spelled that right), explaining "I was on a flight across Aus, and noticed that the back of seat display doesn't seem to know exactly where the plane is. There are two places where 'distance to destination' is displayed. They never matched and the difference varied through the flight." I have a suspicion this is related to the January 20 WTF.