Marc Nguyen's Blog

Did you know that Dracut natively supports LUKS with Yubikey?

Easy high availability for stateful services.

An honest review about a repair friendly phone.

An in-depth comparison of self-hosted identity providers: Dex, Authelia, Curity and Keycloak.

Soldering is now more accessible than ever without having to spend a lot of money.

The difference between HDZero and Analog video systems for microdrones.

A small articles about why distroless containers can be beneficial, but hides vulnerabilities.

How to deploy CrowdSec, including the WAF (Web Application Firewall) to ban every spammer and attacker in the world.

How to use Meilisearch as docsearch with Server-Side-Rendering by using HTMX.

Small article about a deadly combination.

As an engineer, how I got started with FPV drones.

A new year, an overhaul of my home Raspberry Pi cluster.

My cluster finally crashed!

My experience with FluxCD and ArgoCD.

Small article that review the migration from SQLite to CockroachDB.

Presenting my home Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster which is hosting this blog.

Trying Zig with C libraries for the first time.

A simple example of a fault-tolerent distributed system in Go with the Raft consensus algorithm.

Pull-based GitOps using SystemD and Git.

Developing a simple WebAuthn authentication service in Go, as there are few functional implementations of WebAuthn with Go, and only a few existing guides.

Simple guide and recommendations about CGO.

Have you ever wondered whether learning the wrong software architecture is really "wrong"?

The review about Gentoo Linux after 1 year of intensive usage in gaming and development: it's the best OS in the world.

Want to statically compile for multi-platform in Go super-easily?

A rant about people implementing their own user database.

About learning your first programming language in 2023.

About replicable infrastructure when containerization and virtualization are not allowed.

This article documents about how this blog came to be.

The very first article.