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15 Dec 2024

High maintenance cost of not contributing upstream

Keeping your features private/downstreamed vs upstreaming. From a vendor's perspective.

14 Nov 2024

Thoughts on a Pipeline-Driven Organization

A rant triggered by a talk by Roy Osherove at GOTO 2022.

26 Sept 2024

Why do I choose Linux in 2024

Comparing macOS, Windows & Linux as an opinioned power user and developer.

8 May 2024

Tailscale's nginx-auth doesn't provide an email

Integrating OpenWebUI with Tailscale's authenticating reverse proxy.

12 Nov 2023

Challenges of defining a variable for a packaged systemd unit

Preventing node_exporter from exposing itself to the public. Systemd Unit ignoring a variable in an overwrite. Going through Arch Linux packages.

24 Oct 2023

Effortless Markdown Presentations in No Time

Discover how to create eye-catching presentations in just 5 minutes using your favorite text editor and a couple of CLI tools.

18 Oct 2023

NixOS hidden packages

There is a rabbit hole of packages that search won't show you.

4 Sept 2023

I was not ready to become a consultant

My first experience consulting a company. It's very different from being a lead or a CTO.

18 Mar 2023

Abusing CSS :before pseudo-element

A common practice I was confused by. Turns out :before & :after are free real estate, two extra stylable elements with no need for extra HTML. My journey creating a theme switch for ejiek.id

4 Nov 2021

Managing SSH config

A couple of trick to make .ssh/config a bit more cozy

27 Jul 2021

macOS first impressions

Me being stuck with a Mac

16 May 2021

Pipewire is ready for me

A short story of a Pulseaudio user

7 Apr 2021

Protect the LAN

Work from home network hardening

28 Mar 2021

Cyberpunk 2077

Thoughts about the game in general and linux specific

23 Mar 2021

Pi4 SSD failure

My struggle with getting Pi4 to work

21 Mar 2021

Blog Crusade

The great beginning of posts ranging from useful to absolutely not

13 Apr 2020

Archlinux on PinePhone [Part 1]

What do we need to build a phone friendly OS. Diving into AUR. Building Phosh.

11 Apr 2020

Archlinux on PinePhone [intro]

Early bird's point of view on getting Arch Linux running on a PinePhone. It boots and it's easier than ever before!

28 Mar 2020

Git for work and for you

Setting an adaptive git configuration to suite all of your identities with nothing but git itself.

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