https://bou.ke/feed.xml

As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, I really like using Nix and NixOS to manage and deploy my systems.

My reading this year involved a lot of China: I read Breakneck by Dan Wang, Apple in China by Patrick McGee and House of Huawei by Eva Dou.

Standard WebSocket compression uses framed compression where every message is compressed independently of any other.

Sending a ping by creating an ICMP socket normally requires root: you can’t create a raw socket to send ICMP packets without it.

This week I’ve submitted a report for a bug I found in Chromium, the first time I’ve done so.

Back after popular request, my favorite books I read this year!

Living in Amsterdam without owning a car is very easy—the public transit is excellent, cycling infrastructure is everywhere, and when you really need a car, there’s many car sharing services at your disposal.

Most of my career has been working on web services and mobile apps but at some point this got old for me—in high school I was part of a soldering club and I had this lingering feeling that I wanted to get into ‘harder’ problems.

Last year wasn’t the best for books for me—the first 3 months I didn’t finish any at all.

Here’s a bunch of small nix tips, for my own future reference.