Orange Sun

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This corner of the Web is maintained by Vitaly Potyarkin. I am a computer enthusiast, hobbyist programmer and an accidental system administrator for my household

I write a blog, publish some open source projects at GitHub and I enjoy receiving feedback and comments via email

Latest blog entries

• Declaring bankruptcy on Advent of Purescript 2023

  2024-01-09

  Advent of Code is a fun challenge and this year I decided to attempt solving it in Purescript. Today I'm declaring this attempt a failure. This post will serve as a postmortem. Choosing Purescript Last year I solved my first Advent of Code using Go. It was fun and I …
• Benchmarking ssh-agent performance 2023-07-19
• Many-to-many relationships in Excel data model 2023-06-02
• A pull request 10 years in the making 2023-05-03
• Advent of Code 2022 was fun! 2023-03-09
• Negotiating down to 100Mbit between two 1Gbit devices 2022-07-29
• "No user exists for uid" when pushing to git repo 2022-07-21
• Pip-installable Pelican themes 2022-06-10
• Unexpected workaround for Libvirt VMs with cgroups v2 in Cirrus CI 2022-03-02
• D-Link DIR-825 (rev.B1) throughput test 2022-01-31

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See also

I maintain a public list of bookmarks and a blogroll. You may want to browse those when you're done with my writings. Here is a sneak peek:

Bookmarks

• TechInfoDepot Wiki (hardware specs for wireless routers)
• Fight understanding decay with a rich Incident Summary by Dan Slimmon
• What is PID 0? by Dave Anderson
• The curious case of stalled squashfs reads by Chris Down
• "Is This Project Still Maintained?" by Matt Palmer

New articles from other interesting blogs

• Our broad reasons for and approach to mirroring disks (Wandering Thoughts)
• How to completely bypass authentication on RushOrderTees (Xe Iaso (Christine Dodrill))
• Dead Internet Souls (Data, tech, and sometimes Nutella)
• A Signal run a day keeps the un-link away (Michael Stapelberg)
• I moved my emails to Proton Mail (Solène Rapenne)