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Lose-able keys are a feature

In opsec, duress (“rubber-hose”) attacks are famously hard to address. Cryptographic keys that cannot be lost have poor protections against duress.Travelers can leave key fobs at home should they b...

Reasons I still love the fish shell

I wrote about how much I love fish in this blog post from 2017 and, 7 years of using it every day later, I’ve found even more reasons to love it. So I thought I’d write a new post with both the old...

Judging is a trap

I was going through my Obsidian notes and noticed that there are a couple of almost-finished posts that are actually quite good—more than a couple, in fact. My intuition tells me it’s both good and...

Observability wide events 101

What are wide events, why and how should you implement them?

Emojis are cool

I use a lot of emojis when I write (especially chat), and it has always struck me as interesting that most people around me don’t. “Don’t they want to convey how they feel about this?” I ask myself...

On Israel-Hamas War

Typescript Eleventy Config

Node 22.6 introduced the --experimental-strip-types flag, and eleventy 3.0.0 adds support for JavaScript module configs, which means we can set up an 11ty project written in TypeScript using esm an...

Setting up Mainsail on Ender 3 V3 KE

How to setup Mainsail and webcam support on Creality Ender 3 V3 KE printer.

AutoOOO Featured in Workspace Developer Spotlight

A little bit of self-promotion: AutoOOO has been featured in the Google Workspace Developer Spotlight, a series of interviews that Google conducts with developers of innovative Workspace add-ons. Y...

Smallest GIF? Meh! Tiniest data URL is a BMP!

There is the occasional need for the tiniest possible image, but what can we use as one?

The Legend of Playing All the Zeldas

I played all the main Legend of Zelda games. Here are my thoughts on them all.

RE: Write like you talk

Earlier today I was reading some new posts by Visa. There’s not much to say about that, except that he uses pretty normal words and writes very well. This might seem like an odd comment, but it ste...

Easily Entering Umlauts With a US Keyboard Layout

Easily Entering Umlauts With a US Keyboard Layout As a software developer, a US keyboard layout is great for entering all the special characters you need while coding and for using certain applicat...

What does the scanner see?

On Out of Office emails

This summer, I found myself multiple times reading out-of-office emails. Actually, this is not a new phenomenon: it has happened every summer since I started working. Obviously, it also happens out...

27x faster phone number match in SQL Server with "unindexable" query

A tricky query to optimize is partial match of phone numbers, this post will walk through some options. Intro We hit 100% DTU on user DB again yesterday, so we need to come up with a new solution f...

Encrypt Ansible variables with SOPS

SOPS (Secret OPerationS) is a useful tool for encrypting sensitive data, but it doesn’t get enough praise. It supports full file encryption, and value encryption in structured data formats such as ...

Physical Media and Markdown Table Renderer

I’m a big fan of Obsidian, paying for premium and using it to store notes and lists.

Millenial Nostalgia

Others wrote about their share of the “Millennial nostalgia”, and I enjoyed reading about their memories very much: My Millennial Memories Millennial Energy The following is a list of some of the t...

There is only one reason why Microsoft Windows is the dominating operating system on the PC desktop

The Internet is filled with blog posts, articles on tech media, and videos on YouTube about why Linux is not the main operating system on the PC desktop. "5 reasons why", "10 reasons why", bla, bla...