August 26, 2022 ❖ Tags: writeup, programming, arm, rust, pinephone, alpine, postmarketos, emacs
For the past ten months, I've been using my PinePhone as a "daily driver." By which, I mean it's been in my pocket everywhere I go, and it's the device I use to make phone calls. Depending on your familiarity with the PinePhone (or the state of "Linux Phones" more generally) this statement is either delirious, or vapid (why should I care that you use a "smart" phone just like the rest of us?) Don't be mistaken: the PinePhone is usable as a little cellular-capable PDA, and it's in a league of its own. This article is my attempt to document my experiences and rationale for wanting to use one, as well as my thoughts on mobile Linux in general.
April 14, 2022 ❖ Tags: writeup, capture-the-flag, emacs, binary-exploitation, heap-feng-shui
It's that time of year again where I take some time to reflect on UMass CTF. This is going to be shorter than last year's. I put out eight challenges, and I'm only going to be writing about one of them. Code, documentation, and write-ups for the others are available here.
May 04, 2019 ❖ Tags: writeup, programming, lisp, scheme, emacs, emacs-lisp
Rather than study for finals this week, I spent my time moving this blog over to Haunt. Previously, I was using Hugo, and while ox-hugo made the authoring workflow tolerable, doing anything on the rendering side of things was unsavory at best. I eventually had enough and decided to look for another solution, of which Haunt was the most enticing.
July 13, 2018 ❖ Tags: writeup, emacs, practices, lisp, math
Recently, I read Michael Nielsen's essay, "Augmenting Cognition". It talks about some very interesting use cases for the spaced repetition software "Anki" that made me want to try it out again. I'm familiar with Anki, as I used it extensively throughout my last year of high school to study for AP exams. At the time, Anki's "killer feature" for me over similar software was being able to typeset mathematical notation in LaTeX (the exams were Chemistry and Calculus, so almost all of the material to memorize was mathematical notation). It's a great piece of software; I've been using it with the brother I'm helping through summer school. But ever since I began using Gentoo, I've been trying to avoid packages like QtWebView, which has deterred me from installing Anki on my machine. With a little bit of searching, however, I found that there was an Emacs package for spaced repetition named 'org-drill', so I decided to check it out.