Most recently: Two Years of Using Nix and Home Manager

I write about cybersecurity, leadership, weightlifting, and writing, with a few other topics thrown in here and there.

Mostly open source apps that I build to scratch an itch and then write tutorials about after putting it up on GitHub.

Lately, more AI and DevEx type stuff.

I write about cybersecurity, leadership, weightlifting, and writing, with a few other topics thrown in here and there.

[0] https://lovebloodrhetoric.com/2023/06/20/prompt-engineering-...

[1] https://lovebloodrhetoric.com/2019/05/08/writing-the-fight-r...

Very much a work in progress and hope to start blogging actively soon

A lot of Emacs stuff, but also some generative art, nix, and til posts. Tags page here: https://zck.org/tags

My favorite is Schrödinger's Microservice, which was fun to write https://zdwolfe.medium.com/schr%C3%B6dingers-microservice-c4...

Mostly journaling projects in the physical realm. I’ve been enjoying making things with wood, leather, metal, electronics, 3D printing. And some introspective writing, mostly for myself. I have lots more drafts of projects that I’m hoping to publish in the near future.

Started in 2012, some of blog posts featured on HN, sorted by more popular first:

HN points, Title, URL, HN discussion

346 points, "Worst CAPTCHA Ever", https://svedic.org/programming/worst-captcha-ever, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5465716

184 points, "Web Bloat Score Calculator", https://www.webbloatscore.com/, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12783898

124 points, "I was kicked out from TEDx event for saying water-fuelled car is a scam", https://svedic.org/skepticism/i-was-kicked-out-from-tedx-eve..., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6409062

61 points, "34 little POS machines", https://svedic.org/philosophy/34-little-pos-machines, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11001819

58 points, "Daddy, did you really need to buy an electric car?", https://svedic.org/tech/daddy-did-you-really-need-electric-c..., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24342495

43 points, "Screwed by Lufthansa and the German Government, Saved by PayPal", https://svedic.org/travel/screwed-by-lufthansa-german-govern..., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23898423

Noteworthy posts:

- https://alicegg.tech/2023/02/06/4dollar-vps.html : How much can you really get out of a 4$ VPS?

- https://alicegg.tech/2020/01/03/solitaire.html : Low Tech Crypto : Solitaire

- https://alicegg.tech/2019/06/23/aes-cbc.html : The dangers of AES-CBC

A site about the most effective techniques to improve your memory, intelligence, and effectiveness. Built with a custom software stack, want to put more time into it soon.

Selection of posts:

· Adults learn faster than children: challenging a discouraging myth that children are suited for learning more than adults. (https://wetware.engineering/adult-learning)

· A new curriculum: The topics we fail to emphasize in school. Was on HN front page for a bit. (https://wetware.engineering/curriculum)

· Everyday memory palaces: How to increase your memory by orders of magnitude, and apply that in daily life (https://wetware.engineering/memory-palaces)

· How to draw a 4D hypercube: Wrap your mind around higher dimensions. (https://wetware.engineering/hypercube)

My posts are sporadic and span nearly two decades now. It's all programming related -- stuff on statistics, music notation, systems administration, etc. Some of these got to the HN front page. :-)