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An enjoyable part of the internet is people writing about their passions and thoughts in a public medium. I'm a huge fan of discovery, simplicity, minimalism, and good typography. This web log serves as a repository for some of my notes and thoughts, and it's statically generated using Hugo. Pages are designed as simple documents, in contrast to current web design trends. This site does not require JavaScript and avoids serving intrusive adverts, cookies, or other internet annoyances. Some posts employ MathML, which still does not render properly in Chrome; consider using a better browser. You can contact me via **`hello@nox.im`**.
The content for this website is CC BY-SA 4.0[1].
Unless otherwise noted, all code is under the ISC license[1].
2023-09-11: An Algorithm for Doing Great Work
Discover the intricate algorithm for achieving truly exceptional work. This article delves into the essential elements鈥攆rom aptitude and passion to curiosity and calculated risk鈥攏eeded to transcend the boundaries of mere competence.
2022-06-05: Collapse: Limits to Sustainability
Collapse marks a rapid simplification of society. Surprisingly, collapse tends to be driven by the efforts of civilizations to sustain themselves. Sustainability requires greater consumption and increased complexity. Complexity is a function of problem solving and allows societies to grow, but it is also a key driver behind collapse.
2022-03-28: Matrix and Vector Arithmetic With Gonum
Multiplying matrices and vectors with Gonum, a set of numeric libraries for Golang, supporting linear algebra, statistics, optimization, and more.
2022-03-27: Observability: OpenTelemetry Context Propagation in Go
The goal of observability is a holistic understanding of one or more application operations in distributed systems. A superset of monitoring, that holds the ability to measure system internal state by its outputs, such as metrics, events, logs and traces.
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.
With too much information for us humans to process and filter, we're increasingly susceptible to cognitive biases. In order to avoid biases, it is important to become self aware first and subsequently aware of our biases.
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
Expected frequency calculation of N sigma events, Black Swan probabilities and fat tails. On 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. 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.
2021-10-01: Distributed, Fault-Tolerant SQLite Databases
Globally distributed database for reliability with SQLite as a storage engine, allowing for ease of implementation, setup and maintenance.
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.
2021-08-29: Privacy Phone With Google Pixel and Calyx OS
Driven by growing mistrust in Big Tech, this is an educational journey with a deGoogled, privacy phone, so everything that happens on the phone, stays on the phone.
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.