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ZLister Announcement

ZLister, a to-do list management application, is now available. ZLister allows you to create lists with entries and entries can be marked complete or incomplete (“to do”). ZLister’s user interface ...

Is it “/.well-known/”?

Ironically, according to my experience, the .well-known directory doesn’t do justice to its name. Even in use cases that would fit nicely in its original purpose.  But I’m getting a bit ahead of my...

How to install Signal Desktop on FreeBSD using the Linux Binary Compatibility

FreeBSD provides optional binary compatibility with Linux, commonly referred to as Linuxulator, allowing users to install and run unmodified Linux binaries without the need for virtualization or em...

I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype

I truly and passionately hate hype. From the fakeness of it to the sheer stupidity it represents, but perhaps most of all, because of the devastating consequence it often results in.

Migrating Mess With DNS to use PowerDNS

About 3 years ago, I announced Mess With DNS in this blog post, a playground where you can learn how DNS works by messing around and creating records. I wasn’t very careful with the DNS implementat...

Madeira Submarine Cables

I recently visited the Island of Madeira on vacation and was impressed with their internet speed. For an island in a remote part of the Atlantic it was not something I expected. After looking furth...

Web push notifications: issues and limitations

Some technical problems and constraints with the web Push and Notifications APIs.

I Have Two Friends an Introverts Guide to Not Chasing Friendships

This excellent essay from Karolina was the best I’ve read this year. I can related with many of her point on why friendship muscle looks different for every person. Abroad, I meet local people who ...

Scaling Deep Learning with Distributed Training: Data Parallelism to Ring AllReduce

In this post, we’ll explore the crucial role of distributed training in scaling Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to handle large datasets and complex models. We’ll take an in-depth look at data parallel...

Misusing Linux policy based routing for firewalling

Experimenting with Linux policy based routing, i.e. `man ip-rule(8)`, as a stateless firewall substitute.

Using the Sunset header with GraphQL

Try as we might to design APIs that last, it is very difficult to completely avoid the need for breaking changes. The Sunset HTTP header offers a standardized way to inform clients about the deprec...

Server Rendering Lit Web Components with Drupal

Server-rendered web components require no javascript up front. Declarative Shadow DOM let's you render your components' shadow roots before the page finishes loading. While the Lit framework's util...

A New Luxury

Goodbye Microsoft Hello Facebook

Philip writes about how small cost saving policies at Microsoft irritated him as an employee: We used to get Dove Bars and beers all the time. It felt like free food was on offer at least once a we...

Linux UEFI booting simplified

Demystifying the UEFI boot process with a focus on Linux, simplicity, reliability, and security.

I'm Writing Again

I can’t believe it’s been over two years since I last published an article here! Time really flies. The crazy part is that over these last two years, I’ve done more writing than ever; it just hasn’...

🏖️ Sandboxels v1.10 - Return of the Sand 🔥

Just in time.

Space Is Really Big

More than 30 earths could fit between the earth and the moon. Our elementary school models of the solar system really undersell how big space is. The problem is, space is too big and human brains a...

Infineon TPM firmware update on the HP t620 thin client

Updating the Infineon TPM firmware on an HP t620 thin client, which is vulnerable to the ROCA attack (that allows an attacker to recover the RSA private key).

Common Crawl and search engines

Reply to We really fucking need a community owned search engine index that fucks the corporate rules (but still respects personal websites' indexing preferences) by Marta Sokolska Common Crawl is t...