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
Against the Censorship of Adult Content By Payment Processors
This is a furry blog, where I write about whatever interests me and sign it with my fursona’s name. I sometimes talk about furry fandom topics, but I sometimes also talk about applied cryptography. If you got a mild bit of emotional whiplash from that sent…
via Dhole MomentsJuly 24, 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, 2025Status update, July 2025
Hi! Sway’s patch to add HDR support has finally be merged! It can be enabled via output hdr on, and requires the Vulkan renderer (which can be selected via WLR_RENDERER=vulkan). Still, lots remains to be done to improve tone mapping and compositing. Help …
via emersionJuly 18, 2025Feed me now.
Gemsubs! Gemsubs seem to be what people are calling feeds written in Gemtext. If I'd known that, or looked for even one more day I'd have found them. Subscribe away. It's almost but not quite the sort of feed I'm after, but it'll do to be getting on with. …
via Mike KreuzerJuly 17, 2025Checking the Scope of CVE-2025-48927
Background On the first of July (2025), CISA’s KEV brought a fun little vulnerability to my attention. The alert reports two newly known exploited vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-48927 and CVE-2025-48928. CVE-2025-48928 requires local exploitation, and so is not…
via GreyNoise LabsJuly 16, 2025reqwest retries
One part of working on a more modular reqwest was adding support for retries. Intermittent failures are a fact of life, and a simple retry could have made things so much better. It’s a somewhat frequent feature request for reqwest. It’s also a very common…
via seanmonstarJuly 15, 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, 2025Recently
I guess I’ll cover the context first so that we can move on to the good stuff. Man, everything is going terribly. It’s hard to overstate how bad things are for America right now. We’re just doing the thing: we’ve elected fascists and they’re funding an un…
via macwright.comJuly 04, 2025Just speak the truth
Today, we’re looking at two case studies in how to respond when reactionaries appear in your free software community. Exhibit A It is a technical decision. The technical reason is that the security team does not have the bandwidth to provide lifecycle mai…
via Drew DeVault's blogJune 30, 2025Leaktracer: A Rust allocator to trace memory allocations
A few days ago, I had a memory issue in one of my Rust applications. The application was huge, and for some reason the memory kept growing with hundreds of gigabytes of memory allocated, but I couldn't find the source of the leak. Of course I know there…
via Christian Visintin BlogJune 26, 2025Contra Ptacek's Terrible Article On AI
A few days ago, I was presented with an article titled “My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts” by Thomas Ptacek. I thought it was not very good, and didn't give it a second thought. To quote the formidable Baldur Bjarnason: “I don’t recommend reading it, but…
via LudicityJune 19, 2025Elevate hover/focus effects with transitions across multiple elements
You can elevate hover/focus effects by triggering transitions on more than one element. With the right orchestration, you can create more nuanced effects.
via Rob O'Leary | BlogJune 01, 2025Generative AI will probably make blogs better
Generative AI will probably make blogs better. 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 …
via pcloadletterMay 30, 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…
via Clément Delafargue - RSS feedApril 01, 2025Simple Web Augmented Generation
A guide to building a simple web application using augmented generation.
via Ishan WritesMarch 10, 2025Backup Yubikey Strategy
After a local security meetup where I presented about Webauthn, I had a really interesting chat with a member about a possible Yubikey management strategy. Normally when you purchase a yubikey it's recommended that you buy two of them - one primary and one…
via Firstyear's blog-a-logFebruary 28, 2025Generated by openring-rs