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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...

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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...

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, ...

Multiple emails in git for different computers

As someone who code on multiple machines to work on different projects, I like to commit with different emails. I don’t know how everyone else handle different emails in .gitconfig and track dotfil...

On rants about gemini

Recently there’ve been some discussions about how Gemini “doesn’t fix anything” on Lobste.rs: Why Gemini is Not My Favorite Internet Protocol Gemini is Useless As well as a few posts related to tha...

Moving to Cloudflare Pages

This is post number 8 in my 100 Days To Offload challenge. View all posts or subscribe via RSS. Today I caught up for coffee with a good friend, Renlord. He’s convinced me to move this blog to Clou...

Business Urban Legends

There are a few business urban legends I’ve heard over the years that I try to trace down. It’s interesting to me because some seem simple to source, but end up being not so simple. I try to find t...

React class components in the World of Hooks

Hooks have taken over the React community by storm, so have class components really become useless?