The Curious Engineer

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Tom Ryder

sanctum.geek.nz

Systems administrator, software developer, and technical writer, living in New Zealand.

Linux / UnixDev tools / editors / IDEsNetworkingSecurity

’15’20’25
Posts
38 from 11 Sep 2013 to 22 Oct 2026
Posting
now and then (4 in the last year)
Kind
personal blog

2026 4

  1. GNU/Linux Crypto
  2. Software ethics and self‐respect
  3. Unix domain sockets
  4. Multi‐process in shell script

2025 4

  1. Have a crack at Rust
  2. Bash toolbox sampler
  3. Document conversion with Pandoc
  4. Self‐hosting, self‐defense

2024 5

  1. OpenTTD: a free transport game
  2. Tools, old and new
  3. Network modeling with NetBox
  4. Shell quoting
  5. Web archiving with ArchiveBox

2023 4

  1. yt-dlp and gallery-dl
  2. GIMP: Green Is My Pepper
  3. IPv6: Kicking and Screaming
  4. Mosh: the Mobile Shell

2022 4

  1. FFmpeg for Owncast
  2. Logical Volume Management
  3. Running Windows Programs with Wine
  4. Trusted Networks with WireGuard

2021 3

  1. The Freedom Ladder
  2. systemd: Heresy and Hearsay
  3. Let that rsync in

2020 2

  1. Tor Anonymity Network
  2. OpenSSH Tricks

2019 3

  1. Password Managers
  2. Incremental Backups with Dirvish
  3. The Chronicles of GNU/Linux

2018 3

  1. Unix as IDE
  2. A Brief History of Unix
  3. Stacking LAMPs

2017 2

  1. The Taming of the Shell
  2. tmux: Terminal Multiplexer

2016 1

  1. author questionnaire

2013 3

  1. Encrypted IM with Pidgin and OTR
  2. Encrypted Email with Thunderbird
  3. Vim: The Underestimated Editor