Service Complete
Military service is over. Back online (January 2025).
Hi I am Mahdi Mirzadeh, I love computer related stuff and I spend quite some time learning about them. I'm interested in FOSS (Free Open Source Software) and have been using GNU+Linux for my main machine since 2018.
Military service is over. Back online (January 2025).
Lost backups, bad sectors, and a data recovery nightmare (September 2024).
A brief update from military service leave (February 2024).
Preparing for military service and a long break from computing (June 2023).
How Arch/Rostam packages and pacman work, and why rostam-packages exists
A short introduction and the timeline of my path through GNU/Linux, suckless tools, and the BSDs (2016–2022).
How and why I built my own static site generator in 150 lines of shell script (September 2022).
A deep dive (as of 2022) into static sites: pros/cons, web bloat, and why I use both GitHub and stagit for my projects.
Why I use POSIX shell for everything and why you should too (2021).
I made a pizza and filmed it. This is the result (June 2021).