Something I didn’t know existed until this week was the ability to hotkey Chromium extensions so that you have them one keypress away. Two examples for me would be the following: Running no javascript via uBlock origin (you can easily install full uBlock in Ungoogled Chromium via downloading the latest release zip...

Posting LLM generated writing is an afront to the intelligence of everyone that you want to read it, and a direct insult to humanity as a whole. The time to mince words about this is long gone. I saw a piece of writing on Hackernews the other day that was obviously LLM generated, and I had a bit of a crashout. I...

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell” Edward Abbey The modern world is built on a system in which we must “progress” in order to survive. The issue is that we never ask the question “towards what are we progressing?” When we look at a “growth at all costs” mentality, we can rationalize...

If you follow me for even five minutes, you will find my disenfranchisement with modern smartphones is palpable. It seems to be a massive waste to have this capable device that sits in your pocket be nothing more for 95% of people than a doomscrolling facilitator. As such, I have wanted my phone to be the fablelled...

“In 6 months, programming will be solved!” “Coding is dead!” We’ve been hearing for the last 2 and a half years. So - if programming is dead, if all the coding jobs are going to be automated away, why would I go all-in on studying Computer Science and Programming? Why would I choose to deeply study the low level,...

“You’re just nostalgic!” They will say when you point out the fact that everything today is crumbling around us. Where every McDonalds has transformed into a grey box without a playplace - because the playplace would mean people stay longer without paying more money, and the grey box can be sold in the future when...

For 6 years or so, I have been down the custom, split, ergonomic keyboard rabbit hole. And, since running a few different boards, I have found what I like and dislike in a board - to the point that it sounded like a good idea to build one that ticked all the boxes of preferences - 34 keys, MX switches, wired (more...

Building your own keyboard is a rite of passage for those caught up in the ergonomic rabbit hole. So, it was only a matter of time before I went all the way and did so. However, as a complete noob when it comes to soldering, I had a rough time getting started. I hope that this brief guide saves you hours of anguish!...

In 2019, I started using DOOM emacs as my main emacs “distribution”. A decision which I figured I’d stick with for many years to come. In late 2023, I switched back to neovim for some time, and finally came back to the light early last year. However, we all knew this day would come. I have been bitten by the vanilla...

“What we do in life echoes in eternity.” Maximus Decimus Meridius When I look around, the hardest thing to find is a person who cares. I see people doing the bare minimum, value-extracting, and overtly ‘screwing over’ their fellow man to “get ahead”. But, more than this, I seen an overwhelming comfort with...

Back in 2014, I was on a cruise with family (boomer parents, I don’t actually like cruises) - and I did not have my phone or internet access for 17 days. This was in the time when internet access out at sea was exorbitantly expensive, and we just forewent connectivity. For the first few days, it wasn’t easy. I would...

As a heavy emacs user, Guix system seems to be the logical place to rest one’s head in the perpetual distro hop. As an all-or-nothing type guy, I’ve been running NixOS for the better part of a year now, but Guix seems to philosophically align with me. That’s right, forget about pragmatism when you can have...