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An enjoyable part of the internet is people writing about their passions and thoughts in a public medium. Not for attention, not for greed, but for passion.
The world and life is a positive sum game. I'm a huge fan of discovery, simplicity, minimalism and good typography. You find my notes and thoughts on this website, statically generated using Hugo. It is designed as simple documents in contrast to the current trends of web design. This site does not require Javascript and does not serve intrusive adverts, cookies or other internet annoyances. Some posts use MathML which to this day does not render properly in Chrome, use a better browser. Contact me
The content for this website is CC BY-SA 4.0[1].
Unless otherwise noted, all code is under the ISC license[1].
2022-02-12: Modern Day Bread and Circuses
Superficial appeasement, opiates and distraction are tools used by governments when things fall apart. 2000 years after Decimus Junius Juvenalis coined the term 'Bread and Games' in Rome in Satire X, the term still coins societies core drive to cater to our most basic desires.
2022-02-07: Project Serum - Decentralized Exchange on Solana
Setup and fundamentals of the Solana project Serum decentralized exchange (DEX), for trustless on-chain orderbooks and matching engines. Serum enables permissionless, non-custodial Defi with speed and low transaction cost on Solana.
2022-02-05: The Red Queen Hypothesis
Life is a positive sum game! From molecular arms races to the evolution of sex, the red queen hypothesis states that the primary driver behind evolution is the struggle to survive.
2022-01-30: Processing Information and Learning
Effectively separating the signal from the noise, recognizing biases and reconstructing problems with first principles for innovation over iteration.
2022-01-15: Bitcoin: From Software to Hardware Wallets
The need to take self-custody of your own funds should be self evident by now. A post on options and my own journey from the original Bitcoin SPV wallets (Simple Payment Verification), claiming coins from forks to hardware wallets managed by browser extensions.
2021-12-30: The Probability of Six Sigma Events
Black Swan probabilities and fat tails, the ludic fallacy and the misuse of games to model real-life situations.
2021-12-29: Solana on the Raspberry Pi and VPSs
Running a Solana test validator on Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi 64bit ARM Cortex-A72 cross CPU architectures (mostly working). Examples on how to authenticate a test validator on Vultr, Digital Ocean and Linode VPSs.
2021-12-26: Static Site Generator for Web Analytics Dashboards
GoAccess, an open-source, static site generator for privacy focused, self-contained server side analytics dashboards that works for web, onion and the gemini protocol.
2021-12-12: Solana On-Chain Programs
On building and deploying Solana programs with Rust, the eBPF instruction set and what I learned so far started developing on Solana.
2021-12-12: Dev Setup for the Solana Blockchain Platform
Foundations for a web3 Javascript client that talks with a Solana on-chain program through JSON RPC.
2021-12-04: Web3: What the Internet was meant to be
The Web3 is recently everywhere, my exploratory notes on the technology, its trajectory without the hype and criticism.
2021-11-26: Aspiring to Writing Well
Care about readers and value. A few timeless rules for the craft of writing and aspiring artisans.
2021-11-25: Simple SEO Checklist
SEO, search engine optimization, is the zero value task of adding (allegedly) massive value to a website.
2021-11-12: Replacing packr with go:embed to Embed Files & Directories
Go native tooling to embed static files into binaries for simple deployments and dependency management.
2021-10-30: Raspberry Pi 4 SBC Projects
Single board computer for Linux, BSD and alternative OS software projects and experiments.
2021-10-02: Request Idempotence and Distributed Transactions
Distributed transaction handling in service oriented architectures with Saga pattern, orchestration engines such as Cadence and Temporal.
2021-09-26: Self Hosted WireGuard VPN on OpenBSD
Notes on setting up an extremely simple, modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography to provide proper privacy and can provide perfect forward secrecy.
2021-08-28: Service Oriented Architecture and Layered Application Design
Application design in SOA setups aid test confidence and maintainability as well as robustness of systems. It requires discipline and guiding standards especially for teams with high autonomy and independence.
2021-07-24: Hosting Tor Hidden Services with Vanity .onion Addresses
Setting up a Tor v3 hidden service on OpenBSD with vanity .onion address, serving content with httpd.
2021-07-09: Gemini Gemlog alongside a Go Hugo Blog
The Gemini protocol is a lightweight alternative to http. This post has my notes on deploying gmifs and hosting the Gemini version of this web log on OpenBSD.
2021-07-03: Gemini: Revival of Simplicity and the Old Internet
Figuring out what made thoe original internet so appealing. Nostalgia and the journey of seeking focus and a high signal to noise ratio in a complex, numbing and noisy world.
2021-07-02: Why Wrapping Go Errors and How to Unwrap
Go error handling has come a long way, yet it isn't applied in many packages still and the concepts are often not understood. This post takes a stab at explaining it with simple examples.
2021-07-02: OpenBSD Web Server with httpd and Let's Encrypt
Setting up an OpenBSD https web server with httpd, acme and free SSL certificates to get an SSL Labs A+ score.
2021-07-01: Hosted OpenBSD Server Setup
Notes for setting up an OpenBSD cloud server on vultr for $5 a month. What is currently hosting this blog.
2021-06-14: Hugo blog from scratch - blogging with simple documents
Notes on setting up a minimal web log with hugo from scratch.