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astrid.tech

Astrid's personal website

Linux / UnixDevOps / SRE / infrastructureNetworkingReverse engineeringHam radio / RF

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70 from 7 Jun 2020 to 28 Mar 2026
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now and then (5 in the last year)
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2026 5

  1. Linux is an interpreter
  2. The little chicken shed that could
  3. How to pass secrets in RAM between reboots
  4. Swap out the root before boot
  5. curl > /dev/sda

2024 14

  1. A Highly Editorialized Ham Cram FAQ
  2. /computers
  3. ping ff02::1
  4. Ansible is a Lisp
  5. Homelab overhaul: standing up the new server
  6. Homelab overhaul: routing, pxe, and failing at both
  7. Homelab overhaul: layer 1 and 2
  8. Fixing a bug with C++'s >>= operator
  9. Rotating my Linux Microsoft Surface's screen
  10. Happy Leap Day!
  11. Peg engine
  12. That One Time Hacker News Killed My Website
  13. Abusing Conda's YAML comments that are actually Python expressions
  14. Yes, I redesigned my website

2023 1

  1. Gaming on an Android VM on Linux

2022 14

  1. Using PRs in Nixpkgs before they actually land in Nixpkgs
  2. A GPU Passthrough Setup for NixOS (with VR passthrough too!)
  3. Blink Mini RE, Part 4 -- Staring into the heart of the binary
  4. Blink Mini RE, Part 3 -- Staring into the eye of the binary
  5. Blink Mini RE, Part 2 -- Desoldering and dumping the ROM
  6. Disassembling an Amazon Blink Mini camera
  7. Running wireshark live on a remote host
  8. How I became a l33t h4x0r by installing Kali Nethunter on LineageOS on a Pixel 3
  9. What happens to TLDs when their country stops existing?
  10. Top 4 shitty Github Actions hacks that I used this weekend
  11. My trip to the ACS Spring 2022 conference
  12. Skeleton Stick, a hardware password manager
  13. Getting NixOS to work on a Surface Pro 6
  14. I now have a QR code tattoo!

2021 25

  1. Installing NixOS with multiple encrypted ZFS pools, decrypted with one password
  2. APRS on the trip back for Thanksgiving
  3. Misadventures in configuring an AT-D878UV radio
  4. Testing a Raspberry Pi 4 with SPI TFT Screen
  5. Hidden posts
  6. Massage wand modification
  7. Can we turn smartphones into fax machines?
  8. A horrible workaround for my bootloader deleting itself from EFI
  9. astrid.tech's belated 1-year anniversary! 🎉
  10. I used NixOS for a week
  11. Why do I put stuff in monorepos?
  12. QR Tattoo Preliminary Testing Results
  13. Locking Drawing Tablet on Single Monitor
  14. I'm planning to get a QR code tattoo!
  15. Connecting to the Cal Poly VPN from a Linux machine
  16. Changing author name and email in Git
  17. A third redesign?
  18. How to set up Dynamic DNS on FreeIPA for your Kubernetes Cluster
  19. Interviewing for Facebook
  20. My speaker is broken, what do?
  21. Declaratively Provision Databases and Submit Credentials to Kubernetes using Terraform
  22. Taking pictures with Kubernetes and debugging it with Grafana
  23. Adding Pi's to a cluster
  24. A Kubernetes cluster but it's only made of used computers
  25. Simple Self-Hosting with Docker

2020 11

  1. Adding a Backend to astrid.tech
  2. Iterative n-body Collision Problem
  3. Brewing Kombucha
  4. astrid.tech v1.0!
  5. The possibility of using LaTeX to take notes for Physics class
  6. Best-in-class malloc()
  7. An overview of the new Gatsby backend
  8. Finally live!
  9. Down-shifting and filtering a signal
  10. I'm thinking of becoming a CS major
  11. Hello World! Personal Website Redesign