Writing
Tutorials and thoughts from building software. Posts live on blog.msdqn.dev.
Two Android phones, one with a locked bootloader running nix-on-droid under proot, the other unlocked with Nix running natively at /nix. Both get the same zsh, Neovim and CLI tools as my Mac, built from one flake.
Three Macs, two NixOS machines, two VPSes, a Raspberry Pi, WSL and two Android phones, all built from one flake. How the repository is laid out, how home-manager is shared down to a phone, and the bugs that only showed up on real hardware.
A Chromium in a container does not look like anyone's computer, and stealth plugins can only cover that from JavaScript. What Cosmium patches in C++, how it keeps a fingerprint coherent, and how it compares to stealth plugins, patched drivers and other anti-detect browsers.
Axum is mostly Tokio, Hyper and Tower, with routing and extractors on top. Why that makes it my default for Rust backends, how extractors, errors and tests work in practice, and where it still falls short.
After rebuilding auth, roles, audit logs and CI for every new project, I put those decisions into one repository. What is in standard, how it keeps itself honest, and how to build your own.
A walk through my open-source boilerplate, standard: where ts-pattern replaces if and switch, where ts-belt replaces array methods, and how Effect handles errors, services and transactions in the API.