• unknown cyborg image with lineage OS text overlay

    adventures in android flashing part 1

    In this first part I will simply install Lineage OS, and then attempt to build my own kernel without modifications.
    Mostly I’ll simply be following the documentation, so I will only describes some notes on deviations or weird warnings.

  • Sci-Fi Alleyway with robot working in a repair shop

    adventures in android flashing prelude

    I’ve been using a motorola G4 plus for over a year after being disappointed with the direction of ubuntu phone. I picked the G4 because it was a cheap but capable phone that came with almost completely stock adroid, no bloatware, and the promise of updates.
    But now, its time to upgrade some more to a custom ROM.

  • messy ethernet switch

    cloudflare dns

    Yesterday cloudflare announced their new privacy-first consumer DNS service. Announcing it on April fools day was a bit suspicious but it made me re-evaluate my own home dns situation.

  • messy hacker room, with several large screens

    a perfect score, sorta

    I added some functionality to my image minify script so that it now also generates resized images that are cropped to fit in titles or index pages. This means the image selected will be more likely to match correctly.

  • messy hacker room, with several large screens

    more tweaks

    I made several tweaks to the site. Some improvements and some made everything worse.

  • messy hacker room, with several large screens

    finished basic layout

    I’ve finished the basic layout of the blog and it is now ready for accepting posts. I initially set several goals for it:

    1. Cheap/Free hosting
    2. https
    3. Cyberpunk vibe
    4. Scale across devices
    5. Fast loading
      Each of these had some challenges which I’ll get into in the following sections.
  • blade runner inspired android

    First Post!

    This is the very first blog post I’m making on this github.io page. I plan to use this at first to organize my study materials that I might still find useful after exams. And after that maybe as a regular place to blog about random things.