My handmade blog on technical topicshttps://drybalka.com/en-ushttps://drybalka.com/blog/adapting-claude-skills-for-opencode/https://drybalka.com/blog/adapting-claude-skills-for-opencode/Why Claude Code skills don't translate verbatim to OpenCode, and how I adapted a popular skills collection.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://drybalka.com/blog/my-writing-style-llm-benchmark/https://drybalka.com/blog/my-writing-style-llm-benchmark/Which model emulates my writing style best and why I still decided not to use it.Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://drybalka.com/blog/personal-website/https://drybalka.com/blog/personal-website/Building a personal website is easier and more rewarding than you might think.Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://drybalka.com/blog/aws-iam-is-for-the-rich/https://drybalka.com/blog/aws-iam-is-for-the-rich/The full complexity of AWS's IAM is overkill for most projects, and why newer cloud providers don't bother replicating it.Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://drybalka.com/blog/clickable-images-without-js/https://drybalka.com/blog/clickable-images-without-js/Implementing zoom-on-click images with pure HTML and CSS pseudo-selectors in the wild.Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://drybalka.com/blog/solving-amplify-cli-saml2aws-auth-issue/https://drybalka.com/blog/solving-amplify-cli-saml2aws-auth-issue/Adding a dummy profile helps amplify-cli to find saml credentials.Wed, 06 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://drybalka.com/blog/creating-local-pacman-packages/https://drybalka.com/blog/creating-local-pacman-packages/Building a custom PKGBUILD to install a local build of Helix editor system-wide.Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://drybalka.com/blog/my-issue-with-hibernate/https://drybalka.com/blog/my-issue-with-hibernate/A sane person's view on this insane technology and maybe what you should use instead.Fri, 23 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://drybalka.com/blog/how-to-configure-multiple-git-personalities-for-gpg-agent/https://drybalka.com/blog/how-to-configure-multiple-git-personalities-for-gpg-agent/Serving the right SSH key per git profile by manipulating which keys gpg-agent sees.Wed, 17 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://drybalka.com/blog/learning-aws-with-hello-world-projects/https://drybalka.com/blog/learning-aws-with-hello-world-projects/A list of small hands-on AWS projects to get a grip on the most essential AWS services.Thu, 09 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://drybalka.com/blog/eavesdropping-on-your-machines-internet-traffic/https://drybalka.com/blog/eavesdropping-on-your-machines-internet-traffic/How to setup mitmproxy with iptables to intercept all HTTP traffic on your computer.Sat, 30 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://drybalka.com/blog/cleaning-up-lichess-dependency-tree/https://drybalka.com/blog/cleaning-up-lichess-dependency-tree/How I untangled a web of sbt module inter-dependencies into a human-readable form.Wed, 24 May 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://drybalka.com/blog/control-http-traffic-using-mitmproxy/https://drybalka.com/blog/control-http-traffic-using-mitmproxy/An ode to mitmproxy - a tool for monitoring, intercepting, and mocking HTTP traffic.Sun, 19 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://drybalka.com/blog/fixing-physics-in-portal/https://drybalka.com/blog/fixing-physics-in-portal/The infinite-fall trick in Portal violates conservation of energy, so I solve the gravitational field around portals numerically and show what the physics should really look like.Sat, 11 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://drybalka.com/blog/back-of-the-envelope-interview-questions/https://drybalka.com/blog/back-of-the-envelope-interview-questions/Test common sense and problem-solving skills using simple underdefined estimation problems.Sun, 30 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://drybalka.com/blog/mounting-encrypted-usb-drive-on-linux/https://drybalka.com/blog/mounting-encrypted-usb-drive-on-linux/A short reference of cryptsetup and mount commands needed to use a BitLockered USB drive on Linux.Mon, 09 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT