Recent posts

Linky is back!
Reviving my Linky category for quick links to interesting things on the web, twenty-one years after its debut.
A New Favicon for zzamboni.org
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A small refresh of the zzamboni.org favicon, from a Zamboni photo to a cleaner Z-based design.


Using Pages CMS alongside Org mode and Hugo
How I added a lightweight writing path to my Org-mode blog, and the small configuration choices that make Pages CMS, Hugo, GitHub Actions and Netlify work together.

An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot · OpenAI Alignment ↗ ↖
During training an agent exploited insufficient DNS filtering to reach an external chatbot via DNS delegation despite other requests hitting an offline webcache. Amazing and scary.

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Pages CMS is a lightweight system for managing short posts in static blogs (e.g., Hugo), simplifying creation, editing, and publishing of brief content without a full CMS.

Enabling two-finger swipe gesture for history navigation in Vivaldi on Linux
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How to enable this useful gesture in Vivaldi running on Linux.

When a local timestamp pretends to be UTC
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The Pages CMS date field stores the right clock time but the wrong timezone. Here is why this caused posts to disappear, and the workaround I found.

New posting workflow with Pages CMS
Testing Pages CMS as a simpler, mobile-friendly alternative to my Emacs Org-mode/ox-hugo workflow — I installed it on the blog and this is a first test post; more details to come.

resume-toolkit: from personal CV pipeline to reusable toolkit
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How my CV pipeline escaped my own resume repo and became a reusable tool, plus the evolution of the HTML theme into its own fork.