Blogs tagged "tech"

At this once-in-60-years auspicious moment, I wish all my readers: good health (CPU at full power), a soaring career ...

The arrival of Xcode 26.3, with almost no advance notice, responded to these doubts with concrete action. By integrat...

Unexpectedly, Apple has directly provided support for Claude Code/Codex in Xcode 26.3. With this update, developers c...

I can’t believe it’s been over two years since I last published an article here! Time really flies. The crazy part is...

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a bit of a personal finance nerd. I’ve been carefully tracking my spending and investin...

I’ve always been the sort of person who works with music in the background. Ever since I was a little kid writing cod...

LAN Overview 2026 The last time that I blogged about my personal LAN setup was more than a decade ago. Meanwhile we m...

Appy - An AppImage Installer I nerd-sniped myself today. All I wanted to do was installing SuperSonic, a subsonic com...

Gmail Backup and notmuch GUI I am still working adding services to my NAS and one thing that was on my todo list for ...

After a few years of experimenting, I moved forward with a full electrical system rewiring in my house earlier this y...

Earlier this month, I sat the Red Hat EX374 exam to renew my Red Hat Certified Specialist in Developing Automation wi...

Or the more tired “One week with Claude Code”-type article. It’s no secret that I’ve been grumpy about the new AI-bas...

A little over two years ago, I wrote an article titled SSH agent forwarding and tmux done right. In it, I described h...

Putting FreeBSD’s “power to serve” motto to the test. On Thanksgiving morning, I woke up to one of my web services be...

1/12 of 2026 is almost at an end, and I’m certain that I won’t be able to write this post at any date later in Januar...

December is the slowest, fastest, and shortest month of the year. Everything has to happen this month. But I survived...

This is my fourth year in review. Looking back at those four years, a lot of things has happened. 2025 feels like a l...

Firefox 136 looks poised to enforce Certificate Transparency.It may be late, but combined with CRLite (and its other ...

The four most popular ways to use RDF-based metadata on websites are RDFa-Core, RDFa-Lite, Microdata, and inline JSON...

Here’s my thought process when deciding whether to block a scraper from seirdy.one, the scrapers I block, the scraper...

In a recent article about John Haugeland's rejection of micro-worlds I claimed: as a “Large Language Model”, Claude n...

(Previously: [1] [2]) Welcome to Philadelphia! We have a lot of political corruption here. I recently wrote about the...

Content warning: rambly Given the coordinates of the three vertices of a triangle, can we find the area? Yes. If by n...

In the vastness of empty space surrounding Earth, the Moon is our closest celestial neighbor. Its face, periodically ...

The dream of soaring in the sky like a bird has captivated the human mind for ages. Although many failed, some eventu...

Expose a local database to the internet with Cloudflare Tunnel and Hyperdrive

Simple ClickHouse intro by analyzing GPX activity data

Fun with HTTP proxies and user space tunnels with Wireguard

Why read the book? Allie Beth Stuckey wrote You're Not Enough (And That's Okay). She calls the book an escape from th...

Nuremberg (2025), directed by James Vanderbilt, tells the story of the Nuremberg trials through the eyes of a US Army...

Hiked 11.3 kilometres from Maarssen to Utrecht. This was the last part of the Utrecht Path. You leave Maarssen along ...

When the OEM shaver heads on the Series 7 are just as poor as counterfeits.

OK, I'm actually a little impatient to use the new open source schedule booking tool by the Thunderbird team that wil...

Way back in the day I used 23andMe. So lets do some analysis with plink and PRSice-2 to calculate a polygenic risk sc...

A list of 40 Questions to ask yourself every year. I saw it elsewhere, and decided to give it a go. – What did you do...

The first 2/3 of 2025 were rather uneventful, business - and life - as usual. The final 1/3 was absolute madness, bec...

It’s that time of the year again: here’s my extended “frozen /uses page” for late 2025. Whenever multiple application...

Messaging as a customer channel and its relationship to cost of labour: interesting thoughts from Mark Zuckerberg in ...

I upgraded the blogging engine for this site from an outdated version of Hugo (0.92.2) to the latest release (0.147.0...

My attempt to write more frequently by sharing random updates clearly failed (just look at when I published the last ...

Summary This may be one of those nuanced scenarios. But, I have serviced a location that requires I utilize the share...

Summary I’m jotting down this note after experiencing an issue after upgrading to FortiOS v7.4.8. The shared ports wo...

Design a simple home network with a fiber provider.

One of my uncles is taking care of our family durian plantation, with a dog he rescued as a stray a year ago and name...

Preparing to Celebrate Lunar New Year Permalink to section 'Preparing to Celebrate Lunar New Year' # This was the fin...

My Student Showcase Presentation Permalink to section 'My Student Showcase Presentation' # My school, 42 Malaysia, ju...

A post about work-life balance and piling wood

An appreciation post regarding the Dillo Browser and how I use it to browse the web, including YouTube, Wallabag, and...

Retraining myself to tie my shoes a different way lead to reflecting on how I teach my lessons.

Trying to win the lottery with pure Linux RNG magic.

There are plenty of CLI tools to calculate the checksum of files. But, which one is the fastest?

How to use fwupd to update device's firmware on Linux.

During my undergraduate studies, I relied on a gaming laptop for most of my university projects because I needed a po...

In this post, we’ll explore the crucial role of distributed training in scaling Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to handle...

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