Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • foam and fabric

    I sink into the couch
    three times a day
    and as my eyelids turn heavy
    the warmth surrounding me
    is no longer layers 
    of foam and fabric
    it is made of man
    

• Technology and Free Software

  • Unveiling I/O Riot NG — Part 2: install and compile once, run everywhere

    This is Part 2 of three. Part 1 is the demo-driven tour: what ior looks like, how the dashboard tabs work, how filtering and recording behave. This part is about the installation for Rocky Linux 8 and 9 and, more interestingly, why you only have to do that dance on a single machine: the resulting binary is portable to every other Linux box thanks to CO-RE (Compile Once, Run Everywhere) plus full static linking. Part 3 is the under-the-hood companion (per-event schema, async-syscall caveats, the syscall-coverage probe generator, and post-mortem SQL on the parquet output).

  • That one backup trick that stuck

    Backups are boring, there is no two ways about that. It's the reason many (most?) of us fail to do them with the regularity warranted. All the more reason to make them easy and near friction less.

    If your like me you don't trust a backup solution unless it's so easy to understand you could implement it by yourself in a couple of minutes. Years back, I came across this backup scheme that just used hard link copying and rsync. And that proved all I've needed since.

  • Accidental Cameras: The Future of Wireless Networks

    Our world is blanketed in wireless data transmissions. Beacons and towers and base-stations and devices everywhere are sending and receiving and relaying signals to each other through the air via wireless radios.

    Over the years, wireless technology has marched forward. New use cases constantly demand higher bandwidth and lower latency and longer range and reduced power consumption. On the surface, these demands are contradictory: for instance, to get better range you can either crank up the power or shift to a lower frequency (increasing latency). The truth is that all of these factors need to be tuned to their physical environment, especially based on the materials and physical structures in the coverage range (such as concrete buildings, drywall interiors, moving vehicles, etc).

  • Internet/Gemini

    • On likes, reposts, and bookmarks

      I received a nice email this week asking about my use of likes and bookmarks: how do I use them, and how are they different? The email made me realize I haven't been very consistent about my usage. Here's the mental model I have for them, and how I plan to use them from now onwards.

    • Words I’ve learnt from Spellbinding