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• path.join Considered Harmful, or openat() All The Things

  January 8th, 2024 ✦ 9 min read

  Say goodbye to path traversal attacks by using modern kernel facilities and get ready for the capabilities-secure future at the same time! ✦ read more →

• Introducing TiddlyPWA: putting TiddlyWiki on modern web app steroids

  July 26th, 2023 ✦ 7 min read

  Oops, I think I just turned the legendary personal wiki system into an offline-first, installable, encrypted, synchronized Progressive Web App ✦ read more →

• Yet another keyboard post, or, introducing ErgoNICE

  January 10th, 2023 ✦ 19 min read

  I made a custom split mechanical keyboard! Because it's me, this involved things like contributing to a PCB design tool and discovering a ridiculously optimized way to read a keyboard matrix. ✦ read more →

• FreeBSD and custom firmware on the Google Pixelbook

  October 6th, 2019 ✦ 15 min read

  A search for a new thin-and-light laptop, a journey through the Chromebook firmware trust architecture, some FreeBSD kernel development, and finally, something about actually customizing open source firmware. ✦ read more →

• Moving VMs from VirtualBox to Client Hyper-V

  July 20th, 2017 ✦ 3 min read

  The year of Windows on the desktop? Taking Microsoft's hypervisor for a spin by setting up a modern FreeBSD VM. ✦ read more →

• FreeBSD on the ThinkPad X240

  January 3rd, 2016 ✦ 9 min read

  The beginning of my FreeBSD laptop adventure. 2016 was an awkward time for this but I have contributed to fixing that. ✦ read more →