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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

• DDC OLED (Driving OLED display via HDMI I2C pins)
• Passkeys: A Shattered Dream by William Brown
• Linux Security Hardening and Other Tweaks by blakkheim
• My deployment platform is a shell script by Jes Olson
• Timeline of the xz open source attack by Russ Cox

New articles from other interesting blogs

• I wish projects would reliably use their release announcements mechanisms (Wandering Thoughts)
• Much ado about "nothing" (Xe Iaso (Christine Dodrill))
• What is going on in Nix community? (Solène Rapenne)
• To Waste or to Waist: That is the question (Technoglot)
• How I search in 2024 (Data, tech, and sometimes Nutella)