Segmentation Fault

In 2023, I shared my personal recommendations on good privacy-preserving services to use.

The other week we did a thing and brought this beautiful furball home.

I have come up with a quick way to rank the popularity of a bunch of characters from a popular JRPG franchise using people’s replies to a Reddit post, all from the command-line.

As a university student, I often wished to have my lectures transcribed into text, creating a comprehensive and easily accessible reference of all my lecture material.

I’m beginning this year caring a lot more about my data online than I did around this time in 2022.

I was faced with an interesting question related to web security recently: are data-fuelled denial of service attacks possible against modern Next.js web applications?

If you’re reading this, you’re probably viewing a version of my blog generated by Hugo (unless you’re reading this on gemini).

The C programming language is 50 years old this year.

Este artículo es una traducción al castellano del artículo originalmente escrito por Rohan Kumar, “WhatsApp and the domestication of users”.

A few days ago I built a new website, though calling it such might be a touch too generous.

This is the second and final part of my tutorial on creating your personal OpenVPN server on the cloud.

Increasing concern around the fact that our browsing habits and personal information are being mined by many of the websites and service providers we use on the Internet is driving a higher interest in ways to protect our anonymity and personal information

Here we are, a year on, heading into the end of 2018 with another instalment of Hacktoberfest.

Developing software as part of a team can sometimes be a pain, especially when the setup required to get that software to a working state is not trivial.

Even in 2018, when modern, feature rich instant messaging applications like Gitter or the extremely popular Slack, are as pervasive as ever, IRC remains the preferred method of communication for many developers.

Are you the kind of person that likes to gratuitously partition their hard disk because they’re obsessed with compartmentalisation?

esoteric /ˌɛsəˈtɛrɪk/ ADJECTIVE.

If you’re just starting out with Linux or have been using it for some time but are sort of afraid to go beyond what you know now, allow me to take you on a journey.

This year’s Hacktoberfest edition has now come to an end.

Last week, the awesome guys from DigitalOcean launched this year’s installment of their Hacktoberfest… hackathon?

As explained in my previous post, application sandboxing doesn’t need to be relegated to the cloud and server space, desktop users can also enjoy a pain-free and transparent local app experience thanks to technologies like Flatpak and Snappy.

Software virtualisation and sandboxing have been concepts familiar to software engineers since the venerable IBM mainframe era, the 60’s.

This will be a rant rather than an educational, well thought article.

Freedom of choice lies at the core of all that Linux strives to achieve.

The Linux kernel was written by Linus Torvalds, a Finnish student of the University of Helsinki.

Freedom is the essential principle around which Linux (a.k.a.

NOTE: This blog post is here for historic purposes.

On the hope this web log serves some purpose other than being an excuse for learning how to maintain one, I welcome you, the curious mind, who ventured -probably by accident- into this conspicuous hide-out.