here i write my thoughts
Let's revisit packaging with SCMSync workflow
Written on: 2025-07-20
Updated on: 2025-07-21
Why I stopped maintaining Julia in openSUSE
Written on: 2025-05-15
incompatibilities in build system and environment
Exploring Efficient Ways To Package Rust Software in openSUSE
Written on: 2024-08-22
Updated on: 2024-11-10
Local Remote Development with VSCode
Written on: 2024-09-12
a small short guide on how to setup VSCodium Flatpak on an immutable desktop
Using SSH keys with TPM and Git
Written on: 2024-05-05
So my mentor has already made a post about how to use TPMs in openSUSE. I followed a bit, did some weird stuff because it doesn't work at first. It turns out I made a typo and missed a flag 🥴
I fell in love with Rust
Written on: 2024-04-23
For quite some time, I am getting more interested in programming languages that have good documentation, a large community and accelerating adoption in various sectors in the industry.
Technology is the cause of all the braindrain
Written on: 2024-02-12
I haven't finished reading Amusing ourselves to death. But it is kind of obvious that the result of technology's effects on youth and how tech companies pursue this abuse of cocktail concoction of dig…
The problem with today's research and academic writing
Written on: 2024-02-12
A recent study about how citations are manipulatable have caused controversy in the integrity and honesty of those in academia.
Calling Executables Outside Distrobox That Are From Another Distrobox
Written on: 2023-08-06
Updated on: 2024-01-30
Non-technicals, why am I not a purist, and other stuff
Written on: 2024-01-12
Updated on: 2024-01-14
At least 2 years being part of open source, I feel like I am witnessing an age where the future of open source and its movement is uncertain. Open source has come a long way where computing has become…
What to look forward on 2024
Written on: 2023-12-31
To be honest I am just writing this out of boredom. I have lots of plans for next year and I was hoping they won't go awry, at least.
Opinion: Sustainable development is unsustainable
Written on: 2023-12-19
How come that the most sought after solution to our problems in sustainability is actually NOT REAL?
Why Philippine Institutions Should Use FOSS
Written on: 2023-10-01
Updated on: 2023-10-11
raising awareness about Free and Open Source Software in the Filipino Nation
Change of plans and priorities
Written on: 2023-09-26
Updated on: 2023-09-26T17:10:39Z
what it means for my future
First impressions on my first non-Google email provider
Written on: 2023-09-19
Updated on: 2023-09-20T21:28:31Z
my first step in de-Googling
I should have learned about state machines!
Written on: 2023-09-15
How to think logic as a form of states
Packaging Crystal Software for openSUSE
Written on: 2023-07-31
a tutorial on how to package Crystal software
VSCodium Flatpak on openSUSE Aeon
Written on: 2023-07-14
Updated on: 2023-07-15
a small short guide on how to setup VSCodium Flatpak on an immutable desktop
Is Linux (as a desktop) normie friendly already?
Written on: 2023-04-27
Updated on: 2023-04-29
we are not there yet and maybe for a long time
Why am I still using Firefox?
Written on: 2023-04-22
features, controversies, and the state of the web
A new fresh blog site
Written on: 2022-12-04
Updated on: 2023-04-02
and why i decided to create a new theme
My experience in Mastodon and Federation
Written on: 2022-12-08
Updated on: 2023-04-02
and why i think it's a breath of fresh air in social networking
Writing my own tree-sitter grammar
Written on: 2022-12-14
Updated on: 2023-04-02
and for a good reason
Articles from blogs I follow around the net
reqwest v0.13 - rustls by default
To end out the year, here comes a new major release of reqwest, the opinionated higher-level HTTP client for Rust. We don’t really need major breaking versions to keep providing value. Improvements keep coming all the time. But we did need one to make one…
via seanmonstarDecember 30, 2025I hope generative AI does away with SEO
Have you ever searched for something on Google and found the first one, two, or three blog posts to be utter nonsense? That's because these blog posts have been optimized not for human consumption, but rather to entertain the search engine ranking algorith…
via pcloadletterDecember 30, 2025Merry Christmas, Ya Filthy Animals (2025)
It’s my last day of writing for the year, so I’m going to try keep this one quick – it was knocked out over three hours, so I hope you can forgive me if it’s a bit clumsier than my usual writing. For some strange reason, one of the few clear memories I hav…
via LudicityDecember 27, 2025ColdFusion++ Christmas Campaign: Catching a Coordinated Callback Calamity
UPDATE: Further analysis revealed the ColdFusion campaign represents a small fraction of a much larger operation. The two primary IPs (134.122.136.119, 134.122.136.96) generated over 2.5 million requests targeting 767 distinct CVEs across 47+ technology st…
via GreyNoise LabsDecember 26, 2025Are people migrating away from GitHub?
I noticed some people migrating away from GitHub recently. I was curious to understand the rationale. Is it a blip or is it a sign of prolonged exodus?
via Rob O'Leary | BlogDecember 22, 2025Status update, December 2025
Hi all! This month the new KMS plane color pipeline API has finally been merged! It took multiple years and continued work and review by engineers from multiple organizations, but at last we managed to push it over the finish line. This new API exposes to …
via emersionDecember 21, 2025The Revolution Will Not Make the Hacker News Front Page
(with apologies to Gil Scott-Heron) If you get all of your important technology news from “content aggregators” like Hacker News, Lobste.rs, and most subreddits, you might be totally unaware of the important but boring infrastructure work happening largely…
via Dhole MomentsDecember 18, 2025Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems
It's now late into 2025, and just over a year since I wrote my last post on Passkeys. The prevailing dialogue that I see from thought leaders is "addressing common misconceptions" around Passkeys, the implication being that "you just don't understand it co…
via Firstyear's blog-a-logDecember 17, 2025context—Odin's Most Misunderstood Feature
Even with the documentation on the topic, many people completely misunderstand what the context system is for, and what problem it actually solves. For those not familiar with Odin, in each scope, there is an implicit value named context. This context vari…
via Articles on gingerBillDecember 15, 2025Announcing ic-dbms 0.1.0
What if I told you that this code: use candid::CandidType; use ic_dbms_api::prelude::{Text, Uint32}; use ic_dbms_canister::prelude::{DbmsCanister, Table}; use serde::Deserialize; #[derive(Debug, Table, CandidType, Deserialize, Clone, PartialEq, Eq…
via Christian Visintin BlogDecember 13, 2025Theme selector
Two weeks ago I added dark mode to this website. It was late one night and I was revisiting an article and my eyes were tired, so that was that. It was based solely on system dark mode settings, and I started using some more nice, modern CSS features like …
via macwright.comDecember 09, 2025OpenAI employees… are you okay?
You might have seen an article making the rounds this week, about a young man who ended his life after ChatGPT encouraged him to do so. The chat logs are really upsetting. Someone two degrees removed from me took their life a few weeks ago. A close friend …
via Drew DeVault's blogNovember 08, 2025i'm bored, so here's a useless 0day
i either want my US$2.5k professional-grade device backdoored or not at all
via maia blogAugust 20, 2025Testing multiple versions of Python in parallel
Daniel Roy Greenfeld wrote about how to test your code for multiple versions of Python using `uv`. I follow up with a small improvement to the Makefile.
via Technically PersonalJuly 21, 2025LLDB's TypeSystems Part 2: PDB
In my previous post, I described implementing PDB parsing as a can of worms. That might have been a bit of an understatement. PDB has been one "oh, it's gonna be twice as much work as I thought" after another. Implementing it has revealed many of the same …
via Cracking the ShellJuly 07, 2025#Rx Writing Challenge 2025
This is a short reflection on my experience of the recent writing challenge I took part in. Over the past two weeks, I have participated in the #RxWritingChallenge 1—a daily, 30-minute writing group starting at 9 AM every morning. Surrounded by fellow doct…
via Ul-lingaApril 05, 2025My coffee workflow
My coffee workflow by Clement Delafargue on April 1, 2025 Tagged as: coffee, espresso, flair58, v60. It is my first April cools’ and I guess I could start by talking about coffee. If you’ve seen me in person, it won’t be a surprise, I guess. This po…
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