Anirudh Oppiliappan

https://icyphox.sh/blog

Computers, security & computer security.

Anirudh Oppiliappan

Entries

  • Building for the future

    On Tangled's existence and direction Also published at: https://icy.leaflet.pub/3m47cll72hs25 We set out to build Tan...

  • atproto and ownership of identity

    The new age of social-enabled apps atproto is very exciting to me as it’s the perfect abstraction between the identit...

  • Push-based productivity

    Getting told when to get things done Way back in 2021, I wrote about my productivity endeavours, which were—in summar...

  • Being better

    My epistemic breakthrough to better living A year and a half ago, I decided to go completely vegan. Actually, scratch...

  • I am moving to Finland

    This is what I was packing for The past two weeks or so have felt like a fever dream. It’s been a blurry daze ever si...

  • 2022 in review

    Late again because I was busy packing Quite possibly the “fastest” year I’ve experienced—it feels like yesterday when...

  • Installing OpenBSD on Oracle Cloud

    It finally works in 7.2! I’ve been trying to get OpenBSD to install on OCI since early last year. As described in my ...

  • Unicode text input in ZMK

    A hacky interim solution using macros As a highly cultured em-dash (over-)user, being able to type ‘—’ easily is very...

  • The Logitech Ergo M575 trackball

    A short review of my first ever trackball Ever since switching to a split keyboard, using a mouse has been rather awk...

  • Honkin' on the Fly

    Running honk on fly.io Update 2022–08–11: As with literally every update of mine, I’m no longer running honk on Fly. ...

  • The Asus ROG Flow X13

    My hunt for a new laptop has finally concluded I’ve been on the lookout for a new laptop for a while now. While the H...

  • Cloud (F)OSS is a good model

    On building (mostly) open source startups Of late, I’ve been thinking a lot about what makes a startup work, and I th...

  • 2021 in review

    The post-year ramble is here, slightly late this time The last year was quite eventful to say the least, and I’d been...

  • Signal Desktop on OpenBSD via vmm(4)

    X11 forwarding to the rescue Early this year, I completely switched over to Signal and I’m fortunate enough to have e...

  • The quest to optimize productivity

    This blog is devolving into a techbro cliché Us folks in tech have this general obsession with productivity. It’s all...

  • How I built forlater.email

    A technical breakdown of my first big side-project Ever since I began browsing sites like Hacker News and Lobsters, c...

  • Launching forlater.email

    An email-based bookmarking service This is a shill post. I’m launching my new side-project: https://forlater.email. I...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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. ...