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Theme-aware syntax highlighting

This is post number 12 in my 100 Days To Offload challenge. View all posts or subscribe via RSS. Hugo* (sidenote: I keep having to specify, so it doesn’t seem like I’m referring to myself in third ...

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How to Save Capital Tax When Holding Unicorn Stock for Startup Employees?

Besides making a startup successful, another big problem for founders and startup employees is the tax on the stock options, RSU, and common stocks.When a startup issues stocks initially, the stock...

Setting Bucket Policy DigitalOcean Spaces

This is post number 11 in my 100 Days To Offload challenge. View all posts or subscribe via RSS. I’ve recently set up PeerTube for personal use, after native support for object storage was merged. ...

Best Template: First 90 Days as a Product Manager Working with the CEO

Congratulations on getting your new job as a product manager!Product Manager roles are in high demand. Many believe the PMs job is very prestigious, well paid, and exciting. The truth is that the j...

Broadband Network Telemetry over MQTT

At FAELIX we’ve been using message brokers for many years. Back when we started mitigating attack traffic across our entire network our tech stack included queues and topics to coordinate all the v...

Setting up syntax highlighting for Hugo

Hugo uses chroma as its syntax highlighter. All you need for having your code highlighted is to let chroma put the syntax classes in the generated HTML, for the correct language, and then make sure...

I can't take Formula E seriously

Toy cars racing in parking lots For those unaware, Formula E, or rather, the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship1 is the only fully electric open-wheel racing sanctioned by the FIA. The first seas...

Writing a shell prompt in Go

Kinda faster than bash For context, my bash prompt was previously written in, well, bash. It used to call out to git for getting the branch and worktree status info. Parsing the output of git statu...

RetroFW USB Networking and Multiplayer Duke Nukem

While I was in the process of porting Johnny Castaway over to RetroFW devices, I got to know a bit more about the firmware, and these devices. I realized it would be possible to bridge the static u...

Building A GraphQL Server With Next.js

Using Next.js API Routes And Deploying To Vercel & Neo4j Aura

Johnny Casaway RetroFW Released!

Johnny Castaway for RetroFW devices is now released! This is the firmware that you’ll find running on all your favorite Chinese handheld devices. Things like the LDK game, RG-300, RS97, etc. It is ...

No Cost Data Scraping With GitHub Actions And Neo4j Aura

Using The Flat Data GitHub Action To Import Data From The Lobste.rs News Site

What is latency? Let’s deep dive & understand possible ways to optimise it.

Make cgit go gettable

go get git.icyphox.sh/* works! go get requires the presence of the go-import meta tag1 on the repository’s web page. cgit doesn’t support it out of the box; instead, we can make nginx inject it int...

Optimizing applications on Kubernetes using Machine Learning

Hint: This post has been happily sponsored by StormForge, the company building the product that is being used. Despite sponsorship, they allowed me to share my honest opinion. Huge thanks for their...

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Update: Rendering Static Tweets

This is post number 10 in my 100 Days To Offload challenge. View all posts or subscribe via RSS. A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about rendering static tweets. I’ve made a few important improvement...

What is the sorting algorithm behind ORDER BY query in MySQL?

Homelab Proxying With Cloudflare Tunnel

This is post number 9 in my 100 Days To Offload challenge. View all posts or subscribe via RSS. Traditionally, I’ve exposed my homelab directly to the internet. I point a DNS record to my home IP, ...