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November 5, 2026

Verifying a Linux guide with no Linux machine

A Mac, no Linux builder, and a NixOS installation guide to verify all the way to a boot. Four tiers of verification, and what each one can see that the one below it cannot.

nixqemumethode

October 28, 2026

Two mirrored SSDs under NixOS

Installing NixOS across two mirrored disks, under UEFI and under BIOS. The obvious way to make booting redundant produces a perfectly installed machine that will never boot, and none of the usual checks says so.

nixosbtrfsuefi

September 7, 2026

My CV is read over SSH

How I exposed an SSH server written in Rust on port 1337 to display my CV in a terminal, and why the interesting part is not the one you would expect.

rustsshsecurity

August 31, 2026

The shared HTTP cache died in 2020

The most repeated argument in favour of fonts.google.com rests on a mechanism browsers dismantled five years ago. An autopsy, with the numbers.

performancegdprweb