Main feed of posts from my bloghttps://fidonode.me/enCopyright © Aleksandr Mikhailov 2025https://fidonode.me/blog/ciphers-ii/https://fidonode.me/blog/ciphers-ii/This time I gonna go through two cipher-like things. Both of them are more like a device/method for encryption and decryption messages.Threat it more like a…Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://fidonode.me/blog/why-i-love-nix/https://fidonode.me/blog/why-i-love-nix/Despite the fact that I pretty often whine about nixos, it is still a powerful tool and has an awesome toolset from community. Yet I still find inspiration…Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://fidonode.me/blog/ciphers-cryptography-atbash-caesar/https://fidonode.me/blog/ciphers-cryptography-atbash-caesar/Now you may want to ask - why is Jewish mysticism even mentioned here?Let’s start step by step.Kabbalah forms the foundation of mystical religious…Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://fidonode.me/blog/ciphers-cryptography-announce/https://fidonode.me/blog/ciphers-cryptography-announce/Despite such a huge title I expect to keep everything simple.I've always been interested in ciphers and puzzles. But I've never been this clever kid with…Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://fidonode.me/blog/sbt-resource-management/https://fidonode.me/blog/sbt-resource-management/I'm writing this post mostly to capture my thoughts and a have a place to check how I've came to this implementation.So life is simple. You are writing JSON…Sun, 08 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://fidonode.me/blog/managing-small-nix-fleet/https://fidonode.me/blog/managing-small-nix-fleet/Over the last six months, I've deeply immersed myself in Nix, NixOS, and its ecosystem and tooling.Since then, I've been managing 3 aarch64 SBCs, 3 aarch64…Sat, 14 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://fidonode.me/blog/blog_index_and_tags_automation/https://fidonode.me/blog/blog_index_and_tags_automation/Tags are a nice and easy way to organize posts without explicit search. In the simplest way, you have a list of tags in posts, and each tag links to a page…Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://fidonode.me/blog/posts_preview/https://fidonode.me/blog/posts_preview/Imagemagick is a ffmpeg of the image world. You can do a lot of fun things with it. For example you can take a picture, cut corners on it, place it on top of…Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://fidonode.me/blog/improve_code_blocks/https://fidonode.me/blog/improve_code_blocks/Htmlize works poorly with headless publishing. It lacks extensibility, including features like line numbers, a copy button, and the ability to highlight…Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://fidonode.me/blog/add_rss_to_blog/https://fidonode.me/blog/add_rss_to_blog/RSS might seem like an outdated, marginal thing. But it still has at least one benefit-you can use an RSS feed as a sitemap for search engines. Plus, it's…Sun, 23 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://fidonode.me/blog/about_blog/https://fidonode.me/blog/about_blog/I'm neither proficient in Org Mode (further on "Org"), nor a good front-end engineer. I think that a simple solution is better than no solution. If you see a…Sat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://fidonode.me/blog/keeb/https://fidonode.me/blog/keeb/Sometimes I think about the long journey I've made with keebs. In childhood, I had decent membrane keyboards, most of which had an ergonomic profile like the…Wed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT