Archive · Volume 2 · 2022–2025. Read-only. Current blog · Volume 1
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I ToldYou So

Archive, Volume 2. Essays, systems tooling, and fiction from 2022 to 2025, frozen as they were published. The talks from 2010 to 2018 are in Volume 1. New writing is on the front page.

Entries
11
Topics
57
Span
2022 – 2025

Recent

  1. TX: TAR eXtender for resilient archives

    How TX turns plain tarballs into self-validating, chunked, resumable archives that are easy to ship, verify, and repair.

  2. 🌀 Spiral Burst 128

    SB128: a deterministic “data-bearing snowflake” that pairs a central Data Matrix with six spiral arms

  3. Moderate friction gates

    Bots hate gates, no, not Bill.

  4. Why your job turned against you

    It's not your fault.

  5. 3-2-1-1-0 Backup Automation

    Matthew’s 3-2-1-1-0 Backup Automation Makefile

  6. NGINX Hardening

    Matthew's NGINX hardening guidelines (CIS + STIG)

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