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Full Disk Encryption on Fedora w/ TPM2
A hands-on walkthrough from apalrd's adventures on how LUKS full disk encryption works on Fedora and how to enroll a key into the TPM2 with systemd-cryptenroll, including PCR choices, PIN options, crypttab edits and rebuilding the initramfs, as a first step toward a business-wide Linux rollout.
4 min · 923 words
Embedding EYG in Erlang programs
Step-by-step guide to embedding EYG scripting in an Erlang application: installing the toolkit, using EYG types, effects and packages from Erlang, and type-checking scripts before running them to give users or agents a tightly controlled scripting environment.
5 min · 1,043 words
John Earnest's Beyond Loom tutorial uses Hershey vector fonts to teach Lil, Decker's APL-influenced scripting language: points, strokes, and paths as nested lists, then layout and drawing primitives for 2D vector text and shapes.
8 min · 1,784 words
Cretezy explains how to strip ads from Android TV and Google TV devices by replacing the launcher with Projectivy, swapping YouTube for SmartTube, using Wholphin for Jellyfin and remapping the remote with Button Mapper, with step-by-step ADB commands for disabling the stock launcher and cleaning up.
3 min · 764 words
Making an 88x31 book-button using ImageMagick
Konstanty Sośnierz shows how to turn an entire book, Moby Dick, into an animated 88x31 web button with ImageMagick on a POSIX system: working within the tiny size, picking fonts, fetching and formatting the text, generating the GIF frames, and a Python helper for centred lines. The full result is a 4.2 MB GIF over 19 hours long.
4 min · 919 words
Using timers to perform weekly tasks
Marcin Borkowski shows how he runs a weekly Org-mode review with Emacs timers, including sleep-aware scheduling with system-sleep so the review still fires after the machine wakes.
7 min · 1,588 words
ARP! Tell your network to explain itself
Ben Calderon gives a friendly walkthrough of the Address Resolution Protocol: why local networks need both IP and MAC addresses, how arp-scan lists every device with its manufacturer, what an ARP exchange looks like in Wireshark before a ping, and how to inspect the Linux neighbour table.
2 min · 475 words
Parser CombinatorsBetter than regex!
A hands-on TypeScript introduction to parser combinators: starting from a partial parser type, chaining parsers with sequencing and mapping, and building up a hand-rolled combinator library that parses real ping output into structured data, as a cleaner middle ground between regex and tree-sitter.
7 min · 1,661 words
Handwired: turn your regular JavaScript code into a neural net
Cheng Lou's Handwired transforms ordinary JavaScript control flow into exact, fully differentiable neural nets that run in the browser without a GPU—including demos like a mini desktop, trainable gallery, and parallel JSON search.
18 min · 4,245 words
An Emulator Writer's HOWTO for Static Binary Translation
Graham Toal's technical HOWTO on static binary translation for emulators: analyzing instruction sets, translating guest code to host code offline, handling self-modifying code and indirect jumps, with pointers to the Orion SBT project and Michael Steil's abstract.
36 min · 8,376 words
Types of types: Haskell's Kind system
A practical tour of Haskell’s kind system—values, types, kinds, higher-kinded types and data, and custom kinds—drawn from adding typed configuration to a Redis clone.
15 min · 3,422 words
Running RAG with a (small) language model in the browser
Bart de Goede extends his static blog's in-browser semantic search into full retrieval-augmented generation by running small language models client-side with transformers.js on WebGPU or WASM, and evaluates how faithful and useful answers from Qwen3, Gemma and other small models are compared with larger ones.
9 min · 2,160 words
Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum
Mark Dastmalchi-Round walks through tools, techniques and challenges of writing a retro ZX Spectrum demoscene crack intro, covering the pipeline from assets to a runnable production.
31 min · 7,074 words
Making big downloads resumable in Firefox
Olivia explains that Firefox's default network.http.response.timeout of 300 seconds seems to break resuming large downloads, and that setting it to 0 (or a very large value) in about:config made big downloads resumable and more stable in her testing, with wget -c as a fallback.
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Implementing a 3-2-1 Backup Strategy with restic and Backblaze B2
In order to follow a proper 3-2-1 backup strategy, you should have three copies of your important data: two local on different media types, and one off site. For local, I have a [DAS](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-attachedstorage>) with two 14TB drives configured in a RAID 1 array[1](<htt...
3 min · 660 words
What Is poppy.json? The /.well-known File That Tells AI Agents How to Work With Your Company
A walkthrough of poppy.json, the Personal Agent Protocol (PAP/Poppy) discovery file at /.well-known/poppy.json: required fields for organization, OAuth, agent/API/web interfaces and extensions, plus a fictional worked example of Draft 0.1.
4 min · 888 words
It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360
Kennedn recounts buying a Matrix CoolRunner glitcher in 2017 and finally RGH-modding an Xbox 360 in 2026 with a Raspberry Pi Pico. The essay explains Xbox 360 boot security, reset-glitch fault injection, and how cheap microcontrollers made DIY glitching far easier than a decade ago.
5 min · 1,163 words
Extend Lua with Zig 1: Hello World
The first part of Robbie Lyman's series on extending Lua with Zig: installing Zig, writing and running a Hello World, and building it with a first build.zig script, aimed at Lua programmers new to Zig on the way to calling Zig functions from Lua.
10 min · 2,331 words
John Murray walks through installing Nix on Valve's Steam Frame headset using the official installer's Steam Deck mode, then managing apps and dotfiles declaratively with standalone Home Manager, including launcher integration, system files on SteamOS's immutable root, Tailscale, and the Frametop desktop.
9 min · 2,004 words
Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1
Feriel Choutri de Tarlé starts a Floreal Technologies tutorial series building a todo-list desktop app in Haskell with GTK 4 and the Adwaita library, setting up the project, a model-view-update architecture, and a runtime that redraws the window when the model changes.
7 min · 1,668 words