I write anywhere. Like right now, sitting outside at night with a campfire going. I wish I could share a picture of it… but my whole thing about not posting anything that could expose my identity won’...
Personal Privacy Hidden-Service
Journal Archive
A healthy mix of deep thoughts and occasional rants.
Hidden-Service Personal Privacy Science Security Self-Hosted Software Space
2026
May
Goodbye Nextcloud, it's not you, it's my RAM. -
I just finished migrating from Nextcloud to OpenCloud. And after a few weeks of using OpenCloud, I just kept thinking… why didn’t I do this sooner?Nextcloud is great and has an absolutely insane app e...
Software Self-Hosted
How I Turned My Old Phone Into a Mini Homelab -
I have an old Android that barely gets any use. I charge it, it drains on its own, dies, then I charge it again, repeat. So since I had already rooted it before, I figured I’d turn it into a mini home...
Software Self-Hosted
Hello From the Decentralized Side -
This week, I finally pulled the plug on my internet life on Twitter and Reddit. Deleted both accounts and I’m moving over to Mastodon and Lemmy full time. And of course, self hosting again (if you can...
Privacy Self-Hosted
A screenshot of Eta Carinae from Space EngineThis is my favorite star system, and honestly the one that got me into astrophysics. It also happens to be the one that makes me feel like the universe (es...
Space Science
This is a follow-up to my previous post where I walked through deriving the speed of light using Maxwell’s third and fourth equations. Honestly, once I got to this point things started getting harder...
Science
April
Infrastructure & Key Rotation -
So I just got through a pretty hectic week haha. Had to migrate the server for my blog and Forgejo, and also move away from Minio since it went publicly archived. Kinda frustrating but honestly saw it...
Privacy Self-Hosted
Well, I want to write about objects in outer space. But since most of them are estimates or theories that keep getting updated every year, I’m just going to enjoy the theories. While taking notes on w...
Space Science
I honestly don’t know where to start writing this, but from now on I’m going to write down everything I’ve learned so I don’t forget it. Writing helps strengthen memory and moves information from shor...
Science
Visualizing the universe with Gaia Sky -
If you enjoy exploring the universe on your PC, Gaia Sky is worth a try. It’s open source and developed by the Gaia group at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut in Heidelberg. It runs on Windows, Linux...
Space Software
March
I Just Wanted to Write Some Code -
This started with the most innocent question in the world. I was supposed to be writing C code for my ESP32, a simple IoT project that should have taken maybe an hour to finish. But I stared at an if-...
Science Personal
So earlier I was reading about Laplace and my brain literally froze for a second. Imagine this: there is a person in 1814, sitting in Paris, and calmly writing that if there was an intellect vast enou...
Science Personal
How I handle malicious traffic on Hidden Services -
During the alpha release of my custom WAF, I realized a few things about handling malicious traffic. When I first built it, I was too confident and directly killed Tor circuits. But if you kill a circ...
Software Hidden-Service
February
Stateless Anti-Bot Protection for Hidden Services -
I finally finished the stateless CAPTCHA I’ve been obsessing over for the last few weeks. The idea had been rotting in the back of my head while I worked on other things, but the absolute state of ant...
Software Hidden-Service
How to Build a Secure Hidden Service -
I spend time exploring darknet sites, only to find many that are vibe-coded or have weak security. These developers probably don’t realize how brutal the darknet is. Their sites get scanned every damn...
Security Software
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