here i write my thoughts
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
a small short guide on how to setup VSCodium Flatpak on an immutable desktop
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 š„“
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 digā¦
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 becomeā¦
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
Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI
Itās becoming increasingly apparent that one of the reasons why tech companies are so enthusiastic about shoving AI into every product and service is that they fundamentally do not understand why people dislike AI. I will elaborate. I was recently made awaā¦
via Dhole MomentsMay 04, 2025Why as a Software Engineer I truly believe in the Internet Computer project
Premise Whenever we talk about web3, I see a lot of skepticism and I get it; I'm skeptical about 99% of the projects out there; if you don't know me, I've written many articles against Bitcoin and other projects. But this is not an article about cryptos, iā¦
via Christian Visintin BlogMay 03, 2025Reading Zanzibar
Google published Zanzibar: Googleās Consistent, Global Authorization System in 2019. It describes a system for authorization ā enforcing who can do what ā which maxes out both flexibility and scalability. Google has lots of different apps that rely on Zanzā¦
via macwright.comMay 02, 2025Get Weird And Disappear
Pre-script: Reader and now close friend Phil Giammattei could use some help with a horrible brush with cancer in the family. You can support him here. Update: You all crushed Phil's goal, thank you so much for your generosity. Things are obviously Extremelā¦
via LudicityApril 29, 2025Body::poll_progress
This describes a proposal for a cancelation problem with hyperās request and response bodies. hyper is an HTTP library for the Rust language. Background: what is the Body trait? The Body trait used by hyper is meant to represent a potentially streaming (ā¦
via seanmonstarApril 22, 2025CVE-2025-32433 - State Machine Err-ly RCE in Erlang/OTP SSH Server
CVE-2025-32433 is a remote code execution vulnerability in the SSH server implementation within Erlangās OTP libraries (affecting versions legendary CVSS score of 10.0 and became known as a vulnerability for which AI-assisted exploit development process waā¦
via GreyNoise LabsApril 22, 2025AI-powered search summaries led to less clicks to websites
Google claims that links beside AI summaries get more clicks. This goes against intuition. Ahrefs did some analysis on this recently. Who is right?
via Rob O'Leary | BlogApril 21, 2025Resistance from the tech sector
As of late, most of us have been reading the news with a sense of anxious trepidation. At least, those of us who read from a position of relative comfort and privilege. Many more read the news with fear. Some of us are already no longer in a position to reā¦
via Drew DeVault's blogApril 20, 2025Status update, April 2025
Hi! Last week wlroots 0.19.0-rc1 has been released! It includes the new color management protocol, however it doesnāt include HDR10 support because the renderer and backend bits havenāt yet been merged. Also worth noting is full explicit synchronization suā¦
via emersionApril 16, 2025The IndieWeb & that blog roll
The IndieWeb's something I've known about for a while, but never really engaged with. I mean this is very much part of The Indie Web, the very thing, you're reading it right now. But in terms of the camel cased movement, not so much. To me they seemed a biā¦
via Mike KreuzerApril 16, 2025LLDB's TypeSystems: An Unfinished Interface
Well, it's "done". TypeSystemRust has a (semi) working prototype for LLDB 19.x. It doesn't support expressions or MSVC targets (i.e. PDB debug info), and there are a whole host of catastrophic crashes, but it more or less proves what it needs to: Rust's deā¦
via Cracking the ShellMarch 28, 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 oneā¦
via Firstyear's blog-a-logFebruary 28, 2025The Adrian Dittmann Story
the evidence, from A to Z, and righting the wrongs
via maia blogJanuary 05, 2025Awesome Fish functions
Some awesome fish functions that I have accumalated over the years.
via Ishan WritesJanuary 03, 2025Physics Simulations in Bevy
Bevy is the most popular and powerful game engine in Rust. Because of its flexibility, it can be used not only for games but also for (scientific) physics simulations. In this blog post, I will share my experience using Bevy for physics simulations from scā¦
via mo8it.comJuly 19, 2024Defending myself against defensive writing
I write this blog because I enjoy writing. Some people enjoy reading what I write, which makes me feel really great! Recently, I took down a post and stopped writing for a few months because I didn't love the reaction I was getting on social media sites liā¦
via pcloadletterMay 27, 2024The Elegiac Hindsight of Intelligent Machines
This essay was edited out of a chapter of my book, The Intelligence Illusion: a practical guide to the business risks of Generative AI, with minor alterations. āSee the choice of dreamsā, and then worry about it Very well. This book ā this side, Dream ā¦
via Out of the Software Crisis (Newsletter)October 13, 2023Regex engine internals as a library
Over the last several years, Iāve rewritten Rustās regex crate to enable better internal composition, and to make it easier to add optimizations while maintaining correctness. In the course of this rewrite I created a new crate, regex-automata, which exposā¦
via Andrew Gallant's Blog on Andrew Gallant's BlogJuly 05, 2023Generated by openring-rs