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60 from 18 Oct 2016 to 11 Jun 2026
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2026 2

  1. Live image/video translation
  2. Improving OCR quality on the translator

2025 6

  1. Building extensions into libpostgres
  2. Postgres server as a library
  3. Geo-distributed blog for $7/mo
  4. Reverse engineering a basic gym app
  5. Adding OCR support to the local translator
  6. Using local translation models on Android

2024 11

  1. Making a client side IPVS-based load balancer
  2. Spawning VMs for unreasonable workloads
  3. Booting x86-64: from firmware to PID1
  4. A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes
  5. Learning about PCI-e: Implementing an option ROM
  6. Learning about PCI-e: Driver & DMA
  7. Learning about PCI-e: Emulating a custom device
  8. Investigating crashes on self-modifying code
  9. Exploring HUB75
  10. Homelab backup LTE connection
  11. Minimizing Linux boot times

2023 5

  1. Running a cross-architecture Nomad cluster
  2. Spicing up a robot vacuum
  3. Writing a compiler & Lua runtime
  4. "strict mode" Ansible
  5. Rust's Default in Python

2022 4

  1. Cursing a process' vDSO for time hacking
  2. Pico8 performance
  3. Making a handheld Pico8 console
  4. Measuring keyboard to display latency

2021 3

  1. Building a GTK based mobile app
  2. Docker-based images on baremetal
  3. Building an MQTT client for the Kindle

2020 2

  1. Cross compiling for OpenWRT platforms
  2. Reverse engineering the Bose QC35 bluetooth protocol

2019 10

  1. Creating a golden CentOS image
  2. Flashing Linux disk images from an initramfs
  3. Revamping an old tv as a gift
  4. Bookworm - Utility to download books via IRC
  5. BSD inspired network setup
  6. Messing up backups
  7. Simplifying the IOT framework's API
  8. Logging and remote debugging on the IOT house
  9. Extending the capabilities of dumb devices
  10. Automated Debian install

2018 11

  1. Integrating a Kindle into house automation
  2. Rewriting history on Firefox to get reddit's old UI back
  3. OTA updates for the IOT house
  4. IOT house with Sonoff and MicroPython
  5. Segregating my home network
  6. Monitoring my home network
  7. 3D printer woes
  8. Custom router with espressobin
  9. Hacking the HG659
  10. GPU Passthrough in Debian
  11. Debian stretch headless install

2017 5

  1. Meta blogging
  2. Good luck, I'm behind 4 reverse proxies
  3. nginx, caching and X-Accel-Redirect
  4. Patching over Backblaze's B2 lack of CORS
  5. Backups, Backups, Backups

2016 1

  1. Migrating single disk to RAID1 on Debian