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One of the core problems of memory and recall is making ideas stick in the long run.

I’ve been working on a tool using very simple math to convert humming or human whistles into musical MIDI notes.

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When she wears the top with the butterfly pattern, the butterflies spring to life.

I was playing with the pen pressure settings in Krita and tested it out with a portrait study of my significant other.

Sometimes I forget the correct syntax to tunnel a port through SSH but I don’t want to read through a bunch of AD infested websites.

My first procedurally generated animation using shaders.

LUKS is an incredible solution for encrypting entire partitions in Linux.

University has compelled me to use Python despite my preference for Rust, primarily due to the machine learning and data science hype.

A dedicated post collecting solutions to minor NixOS headaches. nixos-rebuild shows no network activity On rare occasions, a system rebuild will get stuck while downloading a package from a source.

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Overview Over the past month I have been daily driving my new phone, the Nothing CMF 1 flashed with /e/OS after I unlocked its bootloader.

A couple of days ago when I was reading the guide to the Go garbage collector, I came across the following excerpt: When all else fails, the Go GC provides a few different specific traces that provide much deeper insights into GC behavior.

The tides Over the past few months, a sizable fraction of my developer peers have taken to AI tools.

For the past few weeks, I have been trying to come up with a fast and purely agebraic function to convert DNA bases to their respective complements.

Note: The following interactive animation requires JavaScript to render.

Hey everyone, since 2024 hasn’t seen a lot of posts on this blog, I plan to start this year off by going back to the roots.

Having run an on-premise server for the past two years, I think my setup has finally matured enough to be worth talking about.

Key takeaways This issue only pertains to secureboot on NixOS using lanzaboote.

Overview Hello and welcome to the final GSoC post for 2024!

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This is my first time trying out sculpting in blender, so forgive me for the quality of the sculpt.

SWHKD is the project that I have been working on for the past few months as a part of Google Summer of Code for this year.

Hello and welcome to the last instalment in the series where we build a parser for a domain specific langauge in Rust.

Hello and welcome to the eighth instalment in the series where we build a parser for a domain specific language in Rust.

Hello and welcome to the eighth instalment in the series where we build a parser for a domain specific language in Rust.

Hello and welcome to the seventh instalment in the series where we build a parser for a domain specific language in Rust.

My first hand drawn YouTube thumbnail, I’m might continue using lawyer ferris as my mascot both due to ferris being in the public domain as well as the sheer memeworthiness of the debacle.

A cyborg head sinking in a pool of water.

Hello and welcome to the sixth instalment in this series where we build a parser for a domain specific language from scratch.

Around half a decade ago, I bought an Asus gaming laptop, one I’m currently using to write this article.

Real world keybindings for shortcuts often involve more than just a simple keypress, especially outside the context of a single application.

This post is a part of a series that explains the architecture of the config parser I am building for swhkd as a part of Google Summer of Code.

Whether you’re playing a video game or competing in a constrained attack-defense CTF, your keystroke timings matter.

This is the second post in a series of posts I’m writing for Google Summer of Code.

Yesterday I created a tool in Golang to help me render my animations a little faster.

Hey folks.

A few days ago, I had announced my project for this year’s Google Summer of Code.

I recently had to attend an online meeting for a software development event.

An unfinished animation with a focus on anatomy.

Happy new year everyone!

I hope this article provides a solid blueprint for building a concurrency management API.

This challenge involves reverse engineering a polymorphic binary, one that modifies its own instructions during runtime.

Description I found some hex in a file called fleg, but I’m not sure how it’s encoded.

This reversing challenge is very mathematical, focusing mainly on modulo congruences.

This was a fairly straightforward and fun challenge that required a bit of common sense to solve.

Hi.

This is a rather simple binary exploitation challenge.

To get started we are given the username “user” and password “user” to log into the BookShelf Pico web application.