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HTTP/3 with Nginx

A few days ago I suddenly remembered that HTTP/3 is a thing and decided to look up how to get it running on my server.

Do not update to Ubuntu 25.04 over Tailscale

Or if you really want to, don't remove packages at the end of the process.

Better Tools: Difftastic

A very quick primer on an alternative diff tool that does some very smart highlighting in the terminal.

Better Tools: Bat

Sometimes reinventing the wheel is good and even a task like "show the contents of this file" can be improved upon.

Better Tools: Mosh

A short post about Mosh "the mobile shell", which handles network interruptions far better than SSH.

ECDSA Signatures: OpenSSL vs .NET

In which I figure out why they don't talk to each-other, because that would be far too easy.

How Git Clone Actually Works

"Begun, the Clone Wars have."

On The Value of Blogging

In which I ponder the value of personal blogs and once again consider writing more frequently.

The rabbit hole of xplat Docker .NET images

A little bit of a deeper dive into how building cross-platform Linux container images works, thanks to a bug with running .NET.

When sysctl took down my subnet

A rough edge case in Linux kernel configuration ended up taking my public /24 subnet offline regularly. Read this post to find out why.

... and I Must Scream

In this post I build a custom Linux kernel module to teach the computer how to scream.

Running Swift on a Nintendo DS

I came across a way for Swift code to compile for GameBoy Advance and decided to try it on real Nintendo hardware.

Replacing Kubernetes with systemd

In this post I go through the journey of overusing Kubernetes and how systemd can actually do most of what I use it for.

This Blog Post Was Written And Published On An Airplane

This blog post was written and published from my mobile phone whilst on an airplane at 21,500 feet above sea level (and climbing). The future is now, thanks to science! - Clemont, Pokémon X&Y

Bringing Pokémon from 2002 into 2023

To migrate Pokémon from the 3rd-gen games all the way to Home is possible, but for how much longer? I did it while I still could, here's how.