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There’s a scene in Watchmen where the Comedian sets fire to a map of the United States and tells the room that none of it matters, the nukes are coming, we’ll all be dust.

dailyprog has published a puzzle every day since 19 June.

I made dailyprog public.

Update, 2026-08-13 The title lasted eight hours.

There's a follow-up The dungeon has a bottom now, at depth 13.

My CV has a test suite.

I use Mastodon on and off but I would not trade it for any alternative atm.

dailyprog needs a new puzzle every day.

dailyprog (the daily coding puzzle site, previously) started with JavaScript.

I saw this cool ethernet tap and thought it would be cool to see how chatty my “smart” TV is.

I have been working on this daily coding puzzle site dailyprog.

Two months ago I wrote down my baseline for hardening a fresh Linux install.

I rebuilt this blog recently.

I was planning a backup setup and dug an old SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD out of a drawer.

Albion Online has a cool design constraint that sounds absurd when you say it out loud: every item in the game is player-crafted.

I’ve been running a small Hetzner VPS for a while now and every time I spin up a new one I find myself re-deriving the same baseline.

Historical context This post was written for Bevy 0.4 in February 2021.

Restic is a program that greatly simplifies the process of encrypted, incremental backups.

I started reading through “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs” and thought it would be a good idea to publish my progress here.

Here are a few challenges I chose to write about from the preliminary for STM CTF 2018 which will take place in Ankara at Oct 31.

I participated in DKHOS alongside bloodlust (formerly yubitsec) this year but this post is not about that.

It was called “The Neverending Crypto”.