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Notes from whatever I am taking apart — Linux and NixOS, containers and systemd, Rust, and the edge.
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usbmon turns Wireshark into a cable tester, and finds retransmissions on cables that supposedly work.
USB· Linux· Wireshark· test
A flake that builds a signed unified kernel image, for rescuing a Steam Deck locked out by Secure Boot.
NixOS· Secure Boot· Steam Deck
Quadlets describe a container as a systemd unit, so systemd owns the lifecycle instead of Podman.
Linux· systemd· Podman· containers· Quadlet
Cloudflare email routing plus Workers AI: an inbox that answers its own mail.
TypeScript· serverless· Cloudflare
What a flake actually is: inputs, outputs, and a NixOS configuration with every dependency pinned.
NixOS
A tour of the rewritten cf-workers-telegram-bot API for running a Telegram bot on Cloudflare Workers.
TypeScript· Cloudflare
The fuzzy search on this site, built with fuse.js.
Svelte· SvelteKit· JavaScript· TypeScript· serverless· Cloudflare
HTTP Basic Auth with a session cookie in SvelteKit, backed by Cloudflare D1.
Wiring Workers AI into a Telegram bot: the AI binding, the model call, and getting a reply back.
TypeScript· Cloudflare· serverless
Ostree is not just for Silverblue. Using it as a content-addressed snapshot store for your own files.
Linux· backup· OSTree
Swapping the Flatpak Mesa runtime for mesa-git so a new AMD card stops falling back to software OpenGL.
Linux· graphics
Setting up a two-disk BTRFS RAID1 for a Steam library, and repairing it when a drive starts throwing errors.
Linux· backup· RAID
Flatpak makes the host distribution almost irrelevant, down to proprietary codecs and games on musl Alpine.
Compiling the out-of-tree 8814au driver for an Alfa AC1900 on Fedora, kernel headers and all.
Linux· kernel· development
Running GUI applications like telegram-desktop inside a container with x11docker, xpra and Wayland.
Docker· Podman· graphics
podman generate systemd plus an autoupdate label: containers that start on boot and update themselves.
Linux· Docker· Podman
Getting Podman onto cgroups v2 and crun on distributions that still default to cgroups v1 and runc.
useState, what triggers a re-render, and where React state should actually live.
programming· JavaScript· React
Building a reusable, nestable card component while learning how React composition works.
programming· JavaScript· CSS· React
Why an atomic rpm-ostree desktop stuck: updates that check out like git, and roll back the same way.
Linux
Alpine can commit changes back onto its own live ISO. Using LBU to build a persistent maintenance drive.
Linux· Alpine
Moving a password store between pass and KeePass, and getting two YubiKeys to guard all of it.
security· Linux
Part one of a Rust series: a WebSocket server built on the ws crate.
Rust· WebSocket· programming