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35 from 1 Jan 2001 to 18 Oct 2026
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now and then (2 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 2

  1. How I Found Myself Writing reverse-bin
  2. reverse-bin: My Retro-Futuristic Successor to CGI-BIN

2025 5

  1. The Case for Secrets as Code: Stop Click-Managing Secrets
  2. Stupid WASM Hack to Get Native Binaries
  3. Focus and Context and LLMs
  4. My E Ink Laptop: ThinkBook Plus Gen 4
  5. Create Missing RSS Feeds With LLMs

2024 8

  1. My blog is no longer hostage to some CSS tooling
  2. PSA: eget That Executable From GitHub
  3. My Black and White Reading Setup
  4. llama.cpp: use local models with chatcraft
  5. Fast groq-hosted LLMs vs browser jank
  6. Developing markdown.download: Exporing val.town, deno, jsr.io
  7. ssh-via-cloudflare-tunnel: Alternative way to expose machines behind NAT
  8. github-to-sops: Easy way to manage passwords/keys with Github and SOPS

2023 11

  1. Lightweight Virtualization Metallize Libkrun Vsock
  2. Trying pixi: Modern package management for Python
  3. Overlooked on HN: Databases That Process Data Faster Than Memory Bandwidth
  4. Overlooked on HN: Discovering High-quality Technical Content
  5. Ukrainian Internet Fun + OpenAI
  6. Analyzing Github Stats via Clickhouse via Chat
  7. From Chaos to Control: Overcoming OpenAI Uncertainties with Local Models
  8. Always Bet on Geohot: Tinygrad Will Win
  9. A Tale of PGVector and Friends: The Joy Of Software Naming
  10. Chatcraft.org: Developer-focused Open Source ChatGPT
  11. GPT-ARIA: Integrating GPT-3 with Browser Using Accessibility API

2022 4

  1. Trying Cloudflare Pages: Best Server Tech Since cgi-bin
  2. Curious Case of Maintaining Sufficient Free Space with ZFS
  3. mmap Page Fault Tracing with bpftrace and ext4
  4. EBPF for Tracing How Firefox Uses Page Faults to Load Libraries

2021 2

  1. Reading NFS at >=25GB/s using FIO + libnfs
  2. Firefox's Optimized Zip Format: Reading Zip Files Really Quickly

2016 2

  1. Why Google Pixel lags 10x more than Moto Z
  2. Laggy phones and misleading benchmarks

2001 1

  1. Using Economics to Help Ukraine Win