Kagu's Corner
Kagu A.
For a few years, but more seriously starting around 2023, I have been interested in internet privacy, free and open source software (FOSS), and self hosting. I started exploring this interest by starting to build a home server and diving down that rabbit hole. This interest led me to stumble upon some videos about the IndieWeb and motivated me to start this website. My goal is to generally carve my own space out here on the internet.
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All posts (48)
In December I was fortunate enough to have a LOT of PTO banked up, and I spent almost all of it on 3 weeks in mainland China and Taiwan. I hit 3 cities in the mainland - Beijing, Shanghai, and Zhangjiajie - as well as Taipei in Taiwan. This wasn't my first time in China. I actually went as a middle schooler for one...
There have been a few updates to the software I'm running on my personal machines over the last few months that I thought I should cover. I realized the last time I wrote about my DEs and stuff I said I was testing Hyprland. Portable PC I finally replaced my 2016 Dell XPS laptop with a Surface Pro 7 that was laying...
Joan Westenberg wrote a thought-provoking article talking about how they believe that connoisseurship makes one "worse off". I think Westenberg has identified a valid critique of connoisseurship but broadened it's application beyond what I find reasonable. One thing I will absolutely agree with is the idea that a...
This year, my partner and I hosted a friendsgiving for her friends, and I committed to cooking the turkey and use my mom's lovely cornbread dressing recipe. My mother has always signle-handedly prepared a traditional little feast at our house, even when we were kids and lived in a country that has no Thanksgiving...
Articles Ayjay - Towards Old Man Willow A well put and succint piece that gives an interesting perspective to explain the pattern we have seen in the last decade of tech megacorps basically strong-arming the cultural zeitgeist into discussing only what benefits them. "People say, You can’t force this on us against...
Earlier this month my partner asked me something along the lines of: "What subconscious behaviors or impulses of yours do you think come from being raised under capitalism? And are you trying to combat any of them?" It sparked a really interesting conversation about both our consumerist tendences and also a topic...
Haven't posted in a month, it's been a while. This month I picked up a new hobby. I was in Denver two weeks ago to go see Madeon (my favorite artist) debut his new live show at Red Rocks. During this trip I ate around Denver a bunch and went to this place that mostly specialized in Jerk/Jamaican food, but had BBQ on...
This past month I've been enjoying a lot of new content from across my interests. Namely cooking, as I'm hoping to try my hand at a few more awesome recipes I found, and also learn how to smoke BBQ! There's also been some more drama around the white-nationalist views and asshole-ish nature of the creator of Omarchy...
My first unique - i.e. not ported over from old writings - blogpost on this little site was on August 13th, 2024. This current post is a little late on it but it was a nice realization today that this blog is officially a year old. Time dilation is a crazy thing but it definitely feels like less time, mostly because...
You browse Linux, productivity, or programming discussions online enough and I feel like you will come across some discussion about why Emacs, vim, or neovim is the best program ever created or something. Dozens of "this config unlocked my productivity" videos and posts. Arguments, threads, etc etc. I will say this...
Lately I've been noticing myself always seeking novelty. I'm re-styling this site. I switched from Gnome to Hyprland - and spent like 6 hours fiddling with configs and scripts to do so... I started learning how to draw pixel art. Etc etc I think - I'm hoping - it's a symptom that my plan to distance myself from...
Consequentialism as a philosophical framework is something that I think I've subconsciously leaned towards before I even learned the name of it in a college ethics class. Though I'd describe myself as a pluralist, the idea that an action's consequences heavily determine the ethical evaluation of said action seems...
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