Not a blog. Not a wiki. Just my Blah! page.

Hello there!

I’m a midly educated nerd, often bad-tempered adulescent, slightly depressive IT engineer, whose poorly organized thoughts, bitter rants and pretense gibberish would not make it up to any well-thought blog or instructive wiki.

Instead, I welcome you to my Blah! page, fed on the spur of the moments, in turn spillage of noxious self-satisfaction or outburst of raging acrimony, which my therapist recommended I use as an attempt to balance my bipolar disorder and reach out to people who might share the same obsessions.

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Latest Rants

Infuriating Technologies

• Git History/Repository (Partial) Compaction (2023.03.29)
• Git- and Diff-friendly Code Comments/Spacing (2022.10.21)
• ssh-rsa SSH keys (type) are NOT deprecated! (2022.06.23)
• Raspberry Pi, Arduino and I2C (2021.11.25)
• Storage encryption with LVM, LUKS and HashiCorp Vault (2021.07.22)
• GnuPG - A (most certainly outdated) Primer (circa 2017) (UPDATED 2021.04.16)
• Graceful, Adaptive Throttling with HAProxy (2019.11.03)
• Entropy and Random Number Generation on Virtual Machines (2019.08.08)
• Yubico’s YubiKey (PIV) - How-to (2019.05.30) (UPDATED 2022.10.27)
• Running Debian on the New Dell XPS 13 (2019.05.22) (UPDATED: 2023.07.10)
• Linux and smart cards (OpenSC) - How-to (2018.12.21) (UPDATED: 2022.07.06)
• OpenSSL made easy (2018.08.10) (UPDATED 2019.11.03)
• Apache SSL client authentication vs LDAP authorization (2018.08.07)
• Linux and smart cards for PKI - Overview (2018.06.20)
• Highly-available ZFS-on-Linux, on top of DRBD (2018.06.14)
• Home server, remote public IP address, VPN and tagged routing (2018.06.06)
• Hail Markdown! (2018.06.05)

Misguided Opinions

• Hail Thomas Minder! (2019.10.22)