2026 is not going to be the year of the Linux desktop, but...
Posted: 2026-01-06
Holy cow, I don't think I've ever seen as much "I'm going to switch to Linux" type content as I've seen in the last week. Now don't get me wrong, this is great! With Microslops latest efforts being solely focused on haphazardly forcing AI into everything (and failing hilariously) and Apple's recent design decisions being quite questionable more people should reach out for alternatives. And the best alternative right now is Linux (sorry BSD folks). So as someone who has repeatedly tried to convert people onto the Linux side this recent surge in interest in the platform warms my heart.
Sending files from device A to B should not be this annoying
Posted: 2025-11-09
Computer networking has been around for a bit. And yet, it is still super annoying to send files from one device to another. Don't get me wrong. If you're in one software ecosystem it is made somewhat easy. Take Apple's Airdrop for example, which does some magic to send files using a temporary WIFI network that is just set up automagically. But because we can't have nice things this is not an open standard but just proprietary Apple software. There are some reimplementations, but this kinda looses the "automagic" portion of the whole ordeal.
How I stopped my laptop from giving me a seizure
Posted: 2024-08-17
Recently I treated myself to a Dell XPS 13 9340. The Thinkpad X220 I'd been rocking since university is a really nice machine, but it's low specs really started to interfere with my daily tasks...
Hosting a static site from S3 via Caddy
Posted: 2024-08-06
I had setup MinIO as a way to self-host S3 buckets for an unrelated project. As a way to force myself to test that setup regularly (and to make my VPS setup more enterprise-y), I opted to host my site(s) from there. Previously I just had the files on an XFS filesystem like a caveman and had Caddy serve them.
Finally releasing a thing I worked on for months without much fanfare
Posted: 2023-07-25
Back in 2020 I had a lot of free time on my hands. I had been working hard on my master's thesis during that year's summer as well, which did also take a huge chunk of time. But apart from that, there weren't really many other opportunities outside of my own four walls to waste time on. So I'd also work on a small game project on the side. It was nothing special really. Just a 2D top down shooter.