linuxcppwaylandhyprland
Reviving a Dead Plugin: Porting Hycov to Hyprland v0.53
When member function pointers corrupt your mouse input and GCC 15 breaks your build - lessons from updating a 2-year-old Hyprland plugin.
January 3, 2026•5 min read
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Write-ups
Technical deep-dives, lessons learned, and things I find interesting.
rusttaurireactnetworkingengineering
Why I Built Packet: My attempt at a terminal
How configuring 60+ Cisco switches drove me to build a custom terminal multiplexer using Rust, Tauri, and React.
December 23, 2025•5 min read
networkingsecurityself-hostingcloudflare
The Hard Way vs. The Right Way: Exposing Services Safely
My journey from port forwarding with VLANs to Cloudflare Tunnels - lessons learned in securing self-hosted infrastructure.
December 11, 2025•3 min read
linuxkernelcsystems
From Raw USB to Kernel Events: Why I Rewrote My Input Driver
Interfacing directly with Linux's evdev and uinput subsystems to build an input remapper that works everywhere - X11, Wayland, and TTY.
December 11, 2025•5 min read
rustnetworkingasynctokio
UDP vs TCP: Designing a Dual-Protocol Voice Chat
Why TCP is terrible for voice, how to map UDP packets to authenticated sessions, and the jitter buffer problem.
December 10, 2025•4 min read