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"01a087b2-dd62-705d-b252-9ec1eb380586", "title": "Cleaning and compacting Git repositories", "url": "https://notes.volution.ro/v1/2020/05/snippets/47ef345c/", "published_at": "2020-05-04T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b2-dd62-705d-b252-9ec1eb8931fa", "title": "Properly sorting FQDNs in Bash", "url": "https://notes.volution.ro/v1/2020/05/snippets/b1ad317c/", "published_at": "2020-05-04T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b2-dd62-705d-b252-9ec1ec7ad7fb", "title": "The before time -- microsoft.com", "url": "https://notes.volution.ro/v1/2020/03/notes/d73a4684/", "published_at": "2020-03-08T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b2-dd62-705d-b252-9ec1ecde3bea", "title": "The before time -- google.com", "url": "https://notes.volution.ro/v1/2020/03/notes/621aab63/", "published_at": "2020-03-07T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087b2-dd62-705d-b252-9ec1ed1e9311", "title": "Good to know -- issue 2019.02", "url": "https://notes.volution.ro/v1/2019/10/notes/97efdbab/", "published_at": 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2026

Volution Notesoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
Designing a single-file mmap-backed read-only hashed multi-table databaseoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2026

2025

Individual URL compression experiment initial thoughtsoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2025
EU-based cloud alternatives affordability for small projects and companiesoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2025
Bot countermeasures impact on the quality of life on the weboriginal ↗
10 May 2025

2024

Misusing Linux policy based routing for firewallingoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2024
Linux UEFI booting simplifiedoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2024
Infineon TPM firmware update on the HP t620 thin clientoriginal ↗
25 Jul 2024
Musing about a secure computer for sensitive dataoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2024
Context binding password-based authenticationoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2024
Pre-hashing large password files used with PBKDFsoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2024

2023

Lightweight container building blocksoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2023
Please don't write application launchers in `sh`!original ↗
11 Sept 2023
We need deterministic installs, not just immutable OSsoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2023
Linux becoming a Windows / OSX cloneoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2023
Learning before dabbling in applied cryptographyoriginal ↗
15 May 2023
Misusing random oracles for practical purposesoriginal ↗
13 May 2023
Experimenting with multi-factor encryptionoriginal ↗
12 May 2023
My biases when choosing open-source toolsoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2023
SSH authorization keys experimentsoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2023
Privatizing our digital identitiesoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2023
Another take on the binary to text encodingoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2023
Binary to text encoding -- state of the art and missed opportunitiesoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2023
Debating deterministic passwordsoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2023
Containerized deployments, the Death Star of complexityoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2023
Passwords in deployment or development scripts?original ↗
12 Jan 2023
Memorable password schemes and patterns?original ↗
11 Jan 2023
Password strength for offline storage?original ↗
10 Jan 2023

2022

Securing my static site server with seccomporiginal ↗
11 Sept 2022
Static site hosting hurdlesoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2022
Useful Firefox addonsoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2022
The many flavors of hashingoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2022
On modern laptop requirementsoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2022
The impact of hacktivism / protestware in open-sourceoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2022
Single binary executable packagesoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2022

2021

Good to know -- issue 2021.02original ↗
28 Jul 2021
Security through stupidity, Banca Transilvania styleoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2021
Good to know -- issue 2021.01original ↗
19 Feb 2021
In Go-land you pay even for what you don't useoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2021
The curious case of shell commands, or how "this bug is required by POSIX"original ↗
3 Jan 2021

2020

Benchmarking "textual" file compression methodsoriginal ↗
5 May 2020
Cleaning and compacting Git repositoriesoriginal ↗
4 May 2020
Properly sorting FQDNs in Bashoriginal ↗
4 May 2020
The before time -- microsoft.comoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2020
The before time -- google.comoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2020

2019

Good to know -- issue 2019.02original ↗
8 Oct 2019
A visual comparison between HTTP/1.1 vs HTTP/2original ↗
15 Aug 2019
Exfiltrating Go current goroutine IDoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2019
Good to know -- issue 2019.01original ↗
28 Jun 2019
Containers Will Not Fix Your Broken Culture (and Other Hard Truths)original ↗
27 Jun 2019
Choosing Linux RAID5 chunk size (part 3) -- Ext4 / CDNjs raw dataoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2019
Choosing Linux RAID5 chunk size (part 2) -- the internet's wisdomoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2019
The State Of Software Security In 2019original ↗
16 Jan 2019

2018

Choosing Linux RAID5 chunk size (part 1) -- block-device level benchmarksoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2018
The chronicle of getting text sizing to just work in mobile browsersoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2018
Hello world!original ↗
22 Nov 2018