OpenPGP: Best Practices (and Git)

I decided to start signing my Git commits for personal, and work Git repositories. Currently, most third-party Git repository hosts only support signed commits and do not support signed pushes. ...

February 17, 2019 · 3 min · Bastian de Byl

A Study in Aperture

I found out recently that using the maximum aperture for a lens can have deminishing returns. Simply put: it makes the image look “soft”, or otherwise out-of-focus. In this post I aim to find out find the best acceptable aperture setting for a specific lens. ...

January 16, 2019 · 2 min · Bastian de Byl

Installing Arch Linux with Full Disk Encryption (LUKS)

This is a guide written on how to install Arch Linux using LUKS for disk encryption, and Systemd-boot as the bootloader. ...

December 19, 2018 · 5 min · Bastian de Byl

Make Your Ears Bern

A colleague offered a pair of Bern Bluetooth drop-in headphones to me fore free, with the catch being: I had to fix them ...

January 11, 2018 · 3 min · Bastian de Byl

Humble Beginnings

After running into too many road blocks I’ve decided to go with the Tranquilpeak theme for this site. Before this, I was really looking forward to using the Tracks theme (ported from WordPress) ...

December 21, 2017 · 3 min · Bastian de Byl