You don't have to use Nix to manage your dotfiles
July 05, 2025
15 minute read
Misadventures in DTrace: how to debug the macOS kernel
May 11, 2025
41 minute read
Pinning NixOS with npins, or how to kill channels forever without flakes
May 20, 2024
12 minute read
Pinning packages in Nix
May 19, 2024
8 minute read
KalmarCTF: Reproducible Pwning writeup
March 16, 2024
7 minute read
Build systems: content addressed tracing
January 27, 2024
9 minute read
Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: a guide to using Nix flakes the non-flake way
January 02, 2024
26 minute read
The postmodern build system
December 11, 2023
19 minute read
Debugging iOS Safari from Linux
November 08, 2023
4 minute read
Debugging Nix build inconsistencies: manual vs automatic build
October 19, 2023
6 minute read
Pulling apart Dell UEFI images and messing with ACPI
October 19, 2023
5 minute read
NixCon 2023: Finding things in nixpkgs and NixOS source
September 09, 2023
1 minute read
Setting up zim with zsh
August 06, 2023
8 minute read
Announcing Clipper: TLS-transparent HTTP debugging for native apps
July 23, 2023
11 minute read
Building the Meowzor robot
May 02, 2023
28 minute read
pre-commit for safe image handling
April 24, 2023
6 minute read
Quartus, elf2hex, Nios II, bugs, and misery
April 20, 2023
10 minute read
Stopping evaluation from blocking in Nix
April 02, 2023
14 minute read
Computing should enable humans: how to choose tools
March 02, 2023
12 minute read
NixCon 2022 retrospective
October 30, 2022
6 minute read
My workflow: Managing and munging PDFs
October 30, 2022
6 minute read
The Lambda Cube in Haskell: what construct do I need for this polymorphism?
October 25, 2022
12 minute read
NixCon 2022: Debugging Closure Sizes Graphically with nix-closure-graph
October 20, 2022
10 minute read
The cabal 'test-dev' trick
October 03, 2022
9 minute read
Setting up dev environments with Haskell Language Server and Nix
July 21, 2022
4 minute read
Adventures in building disk images of NixOS virtual machines for M1
June 21, 2022
3 minute read
Building Nix derivations manually in nix-shell
June 15, 2022
4 minute read
WALL side
May 29, 2022
5 minute read
Oh no, git send-email
April 22, 2022
5 minute read
Debugging: using rr to deal with unruly children (processes)
February 24, 2022
6 minute read
Setting up Quartus 16+18 on Arch Linux
September 12, 2021
3 minute read
Optimizing Nix Docker images
August 19, 2021
5 minute read
My Workflow: Unfamiliar C and C++ codebases
July 27, 2021
6 minute read
Using a TPM 2.0 to secure ssh keys
June 09, 2021
6 minute read
Monitoring D-Bus calls from systemd-run
June 01, 2021
1 minute read
My Workflow: Docs tricks and GNUs
May 18, 2021
4 minute read
jade ✨
March 09, 2021
2 minute read
Finding functions in nixpkgs
February 19, 2021
12 minute read
Custom targets in Rust
December 29, 2020
3 minute read
I have an RSS feed now
November 21, 2020
1 minute read
pwintln uwu and other fun with elves and dynamic linkers
November 21, 2020
8 minute read
How to patch Java font rendering for AA
November 11, 2020
4 minute read
Writing shellcode in Rust
September 01, 2020
5 minute read
Debugging Template Haskell
August 31, 2020
3 minute read
Google CTF 2020: writeonly
August 23, 2020
9 minute read
My software development setup in WSL 2
July 19, 2020
3 minute read
Using Nix to build multi-package, full stack Haskell apps
July 16, 2020
9 minute read
What I learned doing some casual QMK hacking
May 22, 2020
6 minute read
nginx: how to try multiple roots successively
November 11, 2019
2 minute read
Rewriting the blog in Gatsby
November 11, 2019
3 minute read
Auditing world-writable high-privilege executables on Windows
July 06, 2019
2 minute read
I competed in Skills Canada Robotics
June 13, 2019
6 minute read
Nspirations on getting math done faster
April 16, 2019
4 minute read
I designed and built a mechanical macropad/numpad!
March 07, 2019
9 minute read
Hyper-V Manager throws obscure errors if the target computer calls itself something else than you do
August 16, 2018
2 minute read
Meshmixer: Turn Off Smooth Display
February 19, 2018
1 minute read
Launching PowerShell using the Win32 API
November 29, 2016
1 minute read
Setting up client certs for secure remote access to home lab services
October 13, 2016
3 minute read
NUT not finding my UPS + fix
July 09, 2016
2 minute read
Windows folder extremely slow to load
June 28, 2016
1 minute read
nftables: redirect not working + fix
March 07, 2016
2 minute read
Swapping Back and Menu/Overview buttons on Android
March 04, 2016
1 minute read
General Network Error when running Install-ADDSForest
May 23, 2015
1 minute read