‘Why you should never ever use NixOS’: a rebuttal
I first heard of NixOS around two years ago, when a friend decided to run it on her personal VPS instances. As with most new things, I immediately hated it. ...
My github blag
My Github Blag
I’ll mostly be posting how-tos on things that took me a long time to figure out, in case I need to do them again
2021
2020
My worst one-liner yet
I have a habit of writing excessively long bash one-liners well beyond the threshold of it making more sense to write a script. Chaining commands and transfo...
2019
SHAKTI-MS: a RISC-V processor for memory safety in C
SHAKTI-MS: a RISC-V processor for memory safety in C
2018
Home setup part 3: IWS
I have a strange list of requirements, and a limited amount of hardware to satisfy them with. I needed: a Windows desktop for windows only software and ga...
Home setup part 2: The Matrix
A couple of weeks after moving into my apartment, I got a 100Mbps connection from Dsouza cable network, some local ISP that I had never heard of before. At f...
Home setup part 1: The Oasis
For the lat couple of months, I’ve been spending my weekends setting up my home PC, network and other infrastructure. Over this series of blog posts, I will ...
2017
NGINX reverse proxy with SSL for Jupyter and TapChat
Using NGINX as a reverse proxy for webapps I got a KVM VPS from SSDNodes last week. I wanted to host a transmission seedbox, tapchat IRC bouncer and Jupyter ...
2016
Headless access on Pine64
Quickly setting up headless access on linux SBCs like the pine64 This is a quick guide to enabling headless VNC access on the pine64 using USB serial.
My github blag
My Github Blag I’ll mostly be posting how-tos on things that took me a long time to figure out, in case I need to do them again