A deep dive into the convoluted and fascinating story of one of the most important keys on the keyboard

A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004

Great post explaining how the software engineering industry has been walking into a potential labor collapse by alienating junior engineers.

For one of my network storage PC builds, I was looking for an alternative to Flatcar Container Linux and tried out NixOS again (after an almost 10 year break). There are many ways to install NixOS, and in this article I will outline how I like to install NixOS on physical hardware or virtual machines: over the network and fully declaratively.

A quick look into the process of creating a font.

Debugging Gradle tasks can be challenging, especially when you have no access to tools like Develocity or need to work offline. This post shares a couple of strategies to help you gain more insight into your Gradle build.

Or would you?

Some clever tricks you can employ to salvage an essentially un-salvageable machine. I learned a lot of new things from this!

Very neat explanation of how databases work hard to keep your data safe. I was surprised to learn about the failure mode of reading from page cache twice and the database convincing itself that the data has been written out even though it really hasn't.

A great interview with Chris Person of Aftermath, who has over the course of the past 2 years has become something of a VHS decoding savant

Great read on the state of the AI industry post the release of DeepSeek R1, which has shattered the idea of AI training only being available to the biggest players in the field.

Beautifully written and illustrated video explaining shar's journey of creating a frog pond idler game

A great summary of a paper that analyzed how medical professionals teach themselves to work around security hygiene that prevents them from doing their job. It's a great look into how people working on securing systems often overlook the day to day reality of how these systems are operated.

A somewhat dated but still quite useful list of things to look out for when diving into building distributed systems

Super simple and straightforward guide to setting up backups on your NixOS machine via https://restic.net

Probably the most in-depth history of the events that led to the creation of Git by Linus. Great read!

Kinda wild to me that such a city could ever have existed outside the pages of Science Fiction.

Just beautifully written. I would recommend reading this even if you are in a good place mentally.