Hacking, Code & Open Source Reads

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68 posts across 11 years

── 2026 ── 17 posts

05-09 Day One with the FortiGate 100F - Adding a Real NGFW to a MikroTik-Native Homelab
05-06 The Shabbat-Aware Homelab
05-03 The Art of Reading Support Files - Systematic Linux Diagnostics Before You Reach for strace
04-30 Why Your Router Cannot Just Switch ISPs
04-28 Reverse Engineering ISP Hardware - Inside the Sagemcom F@st 5370
04-25 MikroTik 5G without MikroTik Connectivity - provisioning a carrier eSIM by hand
04-23 Brave Origin on Linux - What a Nyxt User Actually Sees
04-22 Forward-Auth for Your Homelab With Tinyauth
04-20 Resurrecting a flash card with f3 and dd
04-12 Self-Hosting SearXNG
03-20 Building a Public MCP Server - pdf.c0xl.ch from FastMCP to Production
03-10 Trapping SSH Attackers with endlessh-go on a VPS
02-02 Enterprise Wireless on a Budget - Cisco WLC 2504 and Aironet 3600 in a Homelab
01-22 WireGuard Through CG-NAT
01-14 Installing Proxmox on a Dell PowerEdge VRTX
01-12 Practical OSINT in the Real World
01-01 What Is OSINT? A Beginner’s Guide to Open Source Intelligence

── 2025 ── 14 posts

12-31 Kiddushin and the Mystery of Becoming One
10-03 Understanding Pro-Palestine Demonstrations Through the Lens of Crowd Psychology
09-28 Shaping Reality with Schopenhauer and Kabbalah
09-22 Address Space Translation
09-21 Base and Bound Protection
09-20 Why Believing in God Matters
09-16 Your Friendly Guide to Archiving Files in Unix with tar
08-30 Reflection on Gilad Sharvit’s Dynamic Repetition
08-18 Finding God in the Everyday
07-07 Why Lenovo ThinkPads Are the Linux Power User’s Dream Machine
06-12 Living with Autism and Anxiety Through the Torah’s Light
05-30 Why Ubuntu Has Become the “Windows” of the Linux World
03-15 Reflections on The Sirens Dance by Anthony Walker
02-04 Finding Strength in Hashem’s Protection

── 2024 ── 7 posts

11-19 How Believing in God Shields Us From Life’s Storms
10-23 Why I Think Snap is Terrible
09-25 Don’t Use Kali Linux as Your Daily Driver
08-30 The Height of the Good in Rosenzweig and Levinas
04-12 A Personal Reflection on Joel Paris`s Borderline Guide
02-02 Reflections on Rachel Reilands Powerful Memoir
01-18 Why Debian Will Always Be My Linux Distribution of Choice

── 2023 ── 4 posts

11-21 An Introduction to .NET MAUI in .NET 8
07-15 The Moment I Turned to God Before Asking My Wife to Marry Me
05-20 Why Remnants of a Life on Paper Still Echo in My Mind
03-03 Halakha for Engineers - When Your Code Runs on Shabbat

── 2022 ── 4 posts

12-05 What Chosen People Actually Means
09-20 Learning to Love Through the Lens of Borderline Personality Disorder
06-29 The Hardened Heart of Pharaoh
06-14 Unlocking the Mystery of systemd

── 2021 ── 2 posts

12-15 Log4Shell
06-19 Vaultwarden - Self-Hosting the Bitwarden Server

── 2020 ── 4 posts

10-18 HTTP/3 and QUIC - What's About to Replace TCP
08-22 Tzedakah - Why Charity Loses What Hebrew Names
06-15 Caddy v2
03-30 Why Pi-hole Might Just Be Your New Best Friend Online

── 2019 ── 3 posts

12-23 Gustave Le Bon’s Timeless Dive into Mass Psychology
12-21 Exploring Nietzsche’s The Antichrist
08-04 Debian 10 - What Two Years Brought

── 2018 ── 4 posts

12-02 Why The Psychology of Money Feels More Relevant Than Ever in Today’s Wild Financial Ride
11-08 WireGuard - The VPN That's About to Change Everything
04-22 Reflection on Heschel's The Sabbath
01-15 Spectre and Meltdown - What Hardware Trust Looks Like After January 3

── 2017 ── 4 posts

09-19 The Two Torahs
07-02 Debian 9 - What Actually Changed
05-16 Timeless Wisdom from André Kostolany’s Notebook
02-18 Self-Hosting Email

── 2016 ── 5 posts

11-08 BorgBackup - Encrypted, Deduplicated Backups Done Right
07-15 What Tefillah Actually Is
05-10 Diving Into the High-Stakes World of Hedge Funds with Sebastian Mallaby's More Money Than God
04-22 Let's Encrypt - What Free Universal HTTPS Actually Changes
03-14 The Essays of Warren Buffett - Timeless Wisdom for Investors and Leaders