Farid Zakaria redesigned his personal blog fzakaria.com using AI, adding a sidebar layout, a Nix store entry in the footer, and three new Jekyll plugins for image source-sets, CSS content hashing, and…
Systems engineer Farid Zakaria published a command-line client on July 9 that bypasses Xe Iaso's Anubis proof-of-work bot wall, demonstrating that the defense primarily stops low-effort scrapers unabl…
Farid Zakaria developed a tool called anubis-fetch that easily bypasses Anubis, a proof-of-work proxy designed to block AI scrapers from accessing Linux kernel mailing list threads. The author argues …
Devenv startup overhead is traced to Nixpkgs' dynamic linker stat storm, where programs like `devenv hook-should-activate` suffer 70ms delays from 486 failing `openat()` calls per invocation. The Nix …