Upcoming performance + quick housekeeping note
The author announces that their band, The Stop Bits, will perform at the Vintage Computer Festival SoCal on February 14, 2026, in Orange, CA. They also introduce a new subscription preference system f…
The author announces that their band, The Stop Bits, will perform at the Vintage Computer Festival SoCal on February 14, 2026, in Orange, CA. They also introduce a new subscription preference system f…
Deno Sandbox is a new security feature from Deno Deploy that provides lightweight Linux microVMs for running untrusted code, such as LLM-generated scripts, with defense-in-depth isolation. It protects…
The Intel 80386, released in 1985, was the first 32-bit x86 processor, introducing a flat 4GB address space, virtual memory with paging, and an effective protected mode. It significantly improved arit…
The author explains their decision to switch from the st terminal emulator, which they valued for its speed and compatibility with DWM's swallow patch, to the Ghostty terminal. The primary reasons for…
This article documents the resolution of recurring NFS stale file handle errors in a home lab environment using an UNRAID NAS and multiple Linux clients. The root cause was identified as UNRAID filesy…
The article argues that C is a fundamentally fixable language, with its main flaws stemming from its outdated standard library rather than the language itself. The author proposes replacing null-termi…
Society is living in a "pre-cyberpunk" reality where corporate-government fusion is already occurring, despite people believing they are resisting it. It claims that modern "resistance" has shifted fr…
Clonezilla is a free, open-source disk imaging and cloning tool that runs from a live USB Linux environment, allowing users to create full backups of their devices or clone disks directly between mach…
This article provides instructions for limiting the power draw of an NVIDIA GPU on a Linux system using the `nvidia-smi -pl` command. It explains how to check the current power limit, set a new limit …
The article discusses the "Y292B bug," a future overflow issue in Unix time where a signed 64-bit integer used in Linux will roll over in approximately 292 billion years, causing the date to jump back…
The article describes the author's workflow integrating tmux with Neovim for efficient terminal-based development, including custom tmux configurations like remapping the prefix key to `C-p` and enabl…
This article is a curated list of cybersecurity tools and resources, organized by categories such as privilege escalation, credential harvesting, and exploitation frameworks. The repository, created b…
The article describes configuring Samba on AlmaLinux 9.x for file sharing with macOS 15.x, replacing Netatalk. The author provides their `/etc/samba/smb.conf` configuration, highlighting the need to e…
The article announces the release of a demo for the game *Firmament*, which players can download from itch.io. It provides statistics about the game, including a word count of 45,464 and 347 unique di…
This article provides a step-by-step guide for migrating a Pterodactyl game panel and Wings daemon to a new server. The process involves backing up the `.env` file and database, reinstalling the panel…
This guide provides instructions for running visual novels on Linux using Wine, including installing necessary dependencies and Winetricks components. It also covers mounting ISO game files, running i…
This article provides instructions for creating a bootable USB stick to update a Lenovo laptop's BIOS using a Mac or Linux system. It explains how to download the BIOS update as an ISO file, extract i…
This article documents the process of installing Linux on 2016 and 2017 MacBook Pro models with Touch Bar, focusing on Fedora 27 with kernel 4.14.x. It provides detailed instructions for partitioning,…
This article provides a cheatsheet of keyboard shortcuts for iTerm2, clarifying that capital letters in shortcuts do not imply the Shift key unless explicitly stated. It distinguishes between shortcut…
This article provides a list of useful Git commands, covering configuration, file management, commits, branches, and remote repositories. It explains how to set up Git via the `.gitconfig` file and de…