AstralFire

Understanding Simple Login Systems

While it is fairly common to simplify login systems through the use of OAuth from...

18 Feb, 2026 — 3 minute read

Unlike stateless firewalls where each packet is individually checked, stateful firewalls maintain a table that...

08 Feb, 2026 — 2 minute read

Dealing with low level firewalling (ufw, iptables, nftables) is something that I haven’t done in...

31 Jan, 2026 — 3 minute read

For the first time in my life, I was modifying a piece of open source...

21 Dec, 2025 — 5 minute read

I recently got a cheap 3D printer and decided that I should actually, finally learn...

14 Dec, 2025 — 7 minute read

When I made my first custom disk image to use with Confidential VM on cloud,...

31 Jul, 2025 — 3 minute read

At the start of this year, I had the opportunity to setup what I would...

12 Jul, 2025 — 7 minute read

In the recent months, I’ve been attempting to make a custom disk image to deploy...

29 Jun, 2025 — 7 minute read

My recent exploration to understand more about Linux kernel memory allocation was purely a coincidental...

04 May, 2025 — 8 minute read

I recently took the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification as I had been slowly...

24 Dec, 2023 — 2 minute read

Two of the things my friends and I do on Pokemon S/V pretty often is...

30 Jan, 2023 — 3 minute read

Pokemon Violet is the first pokemon game that I’ve actually played on launch, partly because...

09 Dec, 2022 — 1 minute read

One of the things that is sometimes used by the FF14 end-game raiding community is...

15 Jul, 2022 — 7 minute read

This post is about something that I debugged together with a friend sometime ago (around...

30 Jul, 2021 — 7 minute read

I recently came to know about Keybase through a friend, and thought it was a...

18 Jun, 2018 — 3 minute read

One of my first challenges with using Jekyll was trying to deploy a blog on...

21 Mar, 2016 — 2 minute read