Welcome

Hi. I'm Albert, a software developer primarily interested in Linux and security.

Posts

2023-04-01: Chess: Moving from online chess to over the board events
2023-01-26: Fun with Gentoo: Why don't we just shuffle those ROP gadgets away?
2022-12-12: Font rendering config on Linux - What they didn't tell you
2022-11-07: Masking LUKS/Console passphrase input with asterisks
2022-10-27: Recent snap experience is absolutely disappointing
2022-08-12: Alpine Linux: When /tmp is not so temporary
2022-06-16: Introducing looqs - FTS for your files with previews for search results
2022-04-03: In the beginning, there was...

Projects

A selected overview of projects I work(ed) on in my free time:

looqs
Indexes files into a sqlite-based database to perform FTS searches. Also renders the portions of documents where hits have been found

adhocify
adhocify allows watching paths for events via inotify to launch commands once they occur.

exile.h
Painless Linux sandboxing API

qswiki
qswiki is a wiki written in C++. Primarily written only for myself, it runs this site.

git

More projects can be found on gitea.quitesimple.org, but most are work in progress and do not have a release yet.