Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• Unix Is Art

  19 Oct, 2026

  A personal essay on the Unix philosophy as an aesthetic — its history, its critics, and what it made me.

• Keeping secrets out of Git

  14 Oct, 2026

  A short checklist for keeping secrets out of git — why a committed secret is already compromised, the .gitignore patterns to add, where to state the policy (README, AGENTS.md), and three commands to verify nothing is hiding; with a visual summary infographic

• Encrypting Linux: from a hack 20+ years ago to firewalls, LUKS and Veracrypt

  11 Oct, 2026

  A personal Linux security story — how a break-in 20+ years ago pushed me from detecting tampering (tripwire) to preventing it: firewall first, then LUKS full-disk encryption, Veracrypt USB volumes, the threat model and its honest limits, and a daily rsync backup between two encrypted disks

• 林徽因

  9 Oct, 2026

  中国第一位女性建筑学家林徽因的一生：古建筑考察、《营造法式》破解、国徽设计，兼及她的诗歌与身后迟到的学位。