The Perpetual Amateur

I have always had a strict policy against running JS applications.

§ What are Quadlets?

Managing Python based applications is made easy with pipx.

Compiling rust is slow, specially on low power devices such as a Raspberry Pi.

;tldr Use fscrypt to encrypt your home partition, with a few simple steps. § Why encryption?

I need to be able to access all the computers over the internet as they are spread across the country: descartes: My dad’s Debian desktop (1800 km away). kant: RPi 3 running Arch (a NAS, printer, a wormhole). camus: RPi 4 running Manjaro (my personal work…

The Raspberry Pi 4 runs hot, specially when overclocked.

§ tl;dr Dark backgrounds are the best.

I am a big fan of deterministic access to applications windows.

If you have some time, I’d recommend reading The Myth of Sysiphus instead.

It is hard to maintain a regular internet uptime with home connections. 1/2 router re-connections per week can be fairly common.

I was introduced to OSX for the first time in September, 2015.

As a social network, twitter has a few fairly unique characteristics: It forces people to be more creative in trying to express the idea within 140 characters.

You can find most of the public code I have written at Github.

In my previous post, I wrote about my initial experiences with stargazing - primarily to demonstrate that it can be fascinating without fancy equipment.

About 6 months ago, I picked up a new hobby: Stargazing.

tl;dr You can add arbitrary tags to your email address.

Hi, I am Rohan.

Recently, I decided to categorize my posts under directories named by the year they were created in.

Its fairly trivial to configure Hakyll to generate sitemaps.

The URLs generated by Hakyll, by default also include a .html extension.

Recently, I built an encrypted chat service, which was based on tornado and ember.js.

Recently, I built a new desktop.

Having been blessed with an unreliable internet, I always have had the need to change the default route when one goes down. ip provides you the required tooling to do that.

Note: My recent article, talking about WireGuard is a better and more ergonomic approach to achive this, compared to using reverse SSH.

Nothing makes a terminal feel more like home as one’s own shell configuration.

Lately, I have been writing some python with emacs.

You can find lot of posts on the internet which try to tell you how to improve the ways in which Vim is used.

Recently I opened up on the port 443 over my EC2 instance (more or less like a VPS), so that I can access it through any firewalled proxy too.