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Building My First Homelab Server Rack

Seven years ago, I built my first home server. It made my software development work faster and more enjoyable, so I’ve gotten more into the home server scene. I built a custom storage server, anoth...

Temple of Fascism

How I get stuff done with Spoon Theory and Shortcuts

I have always been a person that organizes his day and tasks, and I have grown, over the years, a little bit too much obsessed about scheduling and prioritizing things to do. Recently I was diagnos...

2024 Privacy and AI Update

April Cool’s Day inspired me to do something different and share something unexpected. We live in a very different world from the one that existed when this blog was created. It’s taken many differ...

Judge Calls in the 21st Century

A modest proposal to reform the system of summoning judges to assist players in need.

Context binding password-based authentication

Experimenting with password-based authentication implemented directly in Postgres, all sprinkled with a few twists.

For the joy of making it

I. In the bottom section of Y Combinator's website we read: Make something people want. Make. Something. People. Want. Make. It's about making. Creating. Crafting. This is about art. Not fine art, ...

Learning the Haystack

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Tony Warriner – Revolution: The Quest for Game Development Greatness Book Review

I wrote a book review on Tony Warriner’s Revolution: The Quest for Game Development Greatness. The post Tony Warriner – Revolution: The Quest for Game Development Greatness Book Review appeared fir...

Prettify and uglify JSONs in Vim

How to turn ugly JSONs into pretty JSONs inside Vim. And vice versa.

Tournament Simulator

A tool to help with top 8 math, designing prize structures, cEDH tournament structures, etc.

TIL: Pixi by prefix.dev

This is a very short one. Keeping it for myself! For my recent minor projects I’ve been utilizing Pixi to run my virtual environments and it actually works great! It’s simple to start and keep goin...

Why does an extraneous build step make my Zig app 10x faster?

.chart-container { max-width: 800px; max-height: 300px; display: flex; justify-content: center; } For the past few months, I’ve been curious about two technologies: the Zig programming language and...

Rising Mobile Bills Will Worsen UK Digital Divide

I wrote an article for Previous Magazine called Rising Mobile Bills Will Worsen UK Digital Divide. The post Rising Mobile Bills Will Worsen UK Digital Divide appeared first on Hammy Havoc.

Security.txt in the wild

A few years ago, I covered here in the blog the “security.txt spec”. A standard place with the security related contacts, designed to help researchers, and other people, find the right contacts to ...

Wireguard tunneling in user space with Netstack's virtualized TCP/IP stack

Fun with HTTP proxies and user space tunnels with Wireguard

Pre-hashing large password files used with PBKDFs

A subtle, but surprising, realization about password-based key-derivation functions when using long byte sequences as passwords.

Don't Go to TCG-Con

I explain why you shouldn't go to TCG-Con.

You might not need Redis

Redis is arguably the most well regarded tech of all. My impression is that not even PostgreSQL has the same kind of positive aura around it. And of all tech available Redis is at the top of things...

Use CMake to build and run cross-platform (WIN32 and LINUX) code. (Part 1)

CMake is a build configuration tool. In other words, CMake generates Makefiles. This post gives an example on how to configure CMake (the actual content of CMakeLists.txt) to build and run C++ code...