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piankris.bsky.social @piankris.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

cloudflare blesses us with another incident report that's just delightful to read (well, before blessing us with an incident that prompted it, naturally). and DNS strikes again! This time, in the form of RFC 1034 ambiguity on RR ordering and different client implementations

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What came first- the CNAME or the A record

A recent change to 1.1.1.1 accidentally altered the order of CNAME records in DNS responses, breaking resolution for some clients. This post explores the technical root cause, examines the source code...

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piankris.bsky.social @piankris.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Noticed a few stars on my GitHub repository with a Neovim plugin for remote code execution on a Databricks cluster. No clue how as I didn't announce, let alone promote it anywhere. Long story short, I cooked up a disclaimer given the interest. Guess I can forget about ever being hired by Databricks

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piankris.bsky.social @piankris.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I love the Nix packaging system. Such a hacky approach but somehow it works, it's incredibly easy to use and pretty robust. What an incredible display of community effort though, it wouldn't have worked without. Man, open source sometimes seems like a beam of light in this whole mess of software.

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piankris.bsky.social @piankris.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Can I even call myself an arch user if I use gnome like a basic bitch instead of hyprland?

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piankris.bsky.social @piankris.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

No one: Absolutely no one: Me to my climbing friends: vscode sucks ass

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piankris.bsky.social @piankris.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Every good story starts with "Why don't I quickly do X?". 2 hours later, you find yourself chrooting from a live system on a bootable USB into your installed system to save yourself from Arch re-installation. And surprisingly, it works. kristina-pianykh.github.io/blog/posts/c...

kristina-pianykh.github.io

~~Truth~~ Chroot or Dare

It was a late evening before a working day (doesn’t any good story start like this?). I was thinking why the new Nix API wasn’t working for me by default. TLDR: the thing about Nix is that there’s a l...

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piankris.bsky.social @piankris.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Integrating Copilot into GitHub view of PR diffs is probably one of the most sensible AI applications I've seen to this day

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piankris.bsky.social @piankris.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I find it interesting that the primary entry for "first-class citizen" in Wikipedia relates to the programming concept, but the entry for "second-class citizen" - to the social construct. A curious case of conceptual asymmetry.

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piankris.bsky.social @piankris.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Today's episode is about digital hygiene, privacy paranoia, and a deep dive into setting up a physical storage for backing up personal data. Sources: ChatGPT and Co. - 0% Arch Wiki - 69% Brain cells - 420% kristina-pianykh.github.io/blog/posts/b...

kristina-pianykh.github.io

Hard (drive) adventures

Paranoya or common sense? It’s only recently that I started paying close attention to digital hygiene. In fact, I clearly remember the feeling of lingering sticky anxiety learning about IT security at...

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piankris.bsky.social @piankris.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Just realized I was about to write a simple version of `rclone sync --dry-run --checksum` and `rclone dedupe --dry-run --by-hash`. Also in Go (of course). The irony. I'm so happy I've discovered rclone though. Brought so much more order into my files on cloud and local backup.

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piankris.bsky.social @piankris.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I was today years old when I discovered iota in Go const declarations for enum-like ordering. In fact, it can do much more than that.

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piankris.bsky.social @piankris.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I like the idea of using asserts as part of a strong defensive code strategy. Most of the time I don't even write tests for my side projects.

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piankris.bsky.social @piankris.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Scraping and clawing through the last feature of my shell in Go before I can call it complete with a clear conscience. At this point, I am not learning anything new anymore and finding myself reimplementing bash instead. It's just not fun anymore

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piankris.bsky.social @piankris.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Casey goes on a rant about a certain language performance benchmark circulating in the internet lately and explains why it's dog shit (or why you should never trust "baity" claims with no solid work behind it). Trigger warning: assembly inspection www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH12...

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It's Really Just That Bad

YouTube video by ThePrimeTime

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piankris.bsky.social @piankris.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Does #Ghostty have a way of changing the layout of split windows (e.g. if I want to change a vertical split to horizontal)? Java folks would understand what I mean

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piankris.bsky.social @piankris.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

"Linen Layout" -Day 19- #AdventOfCode 2024 in #Golang adventofcode.com/2024/day/19 Rinse and repeat of the previous days. The role reveal sound from Among Us in the puzzle text is such a great touch though (red is sus🤫) Code: github.com/Kristina-Pia...