Adrian Daub’s recent book got me thinking about Silicon Valley’s history. Its origins predate the age of Information Technology, and yet they still structure the Valley – as shown in a very curious marriage.
For the past two summers, I have been teaching parts of a computer science course to undergraduates. The professor is teaching the theory of computer architecture and operating systems and I do the hands-on exercise part. This summer, I decided to switch to typst for my slide sets. Here is why.
Proxmox VE has a great interface to configure SSL certificates for the web UI. From the CLI, not everything is as obvious. Here are some notes so that my future self avoids some of the traps we tapped into today.
Today, I was setting up Waterfox, a Firefox fork without Mozilla’s debatable AI integrations. I use KeePassXC for passwords and passkeys, for which I had to install the browser extension. Unfortunately, Waterfox and KeePassXC do not work together out of the box. A quick search sent me to a Github discussion that eventually led me […]
So, this is a blog. Do not expect mind-boggling insights. If you are reading this first post, I would not suspect you to, anyway. I do not have grand projects to talk about. There is no important package for which I am the maintainer. Maybe I will get around to making actual contributions some day, […]