[drop_cap]L[/drop_cap]ast year, I moved to CachyOS on my laptop. I expected a different Kernel. I was ready to do some things differently. What I didn’t expect was a total disruption of my workflow. Not just on that Linux machine, but across any other machine I would touch afterward. Once you get familiar with Linux’s terminal-first […]
[drop_cap]W[/drop_cap]hen you’re juggling three repos in VS Code and a dozen browser tabs, Alt+Tab becomes a game of Russian Roulette. You’re looking for your frontend, but you end up staring at a Slack notification or a half-finished email. MacOS users get Native Tabs in VS Code. On Linux/Windows? You get one instance per workspace and […]
[drop_cap]W[/drop_cap]riting is hard. It’s messy, unresolved, chaotic. You scrape scenes out of your skull and massage syntactical turds until they shine (or get thrown out in the next rewrite). Code is different. Something either works or it doesn’t. Problems usually have clear paths to solutions. Prose has no linter. You can’t pre-compile a plot-twist to […]
If you’re reading this, you’re in the bad place. You’ve already googled “Windows 11 taskbar icons missing,” and you’ve spent the last three hours performing the standard Microsoft-sanctioned rituals that never actually work. Certain icons just refuse to show up on taskbar. Regardless of whether they are pinned or just currently running. And yes, like […]
[drop_cap]N[/drop_cap]ot so long ago, when you hit a weird bug, the ritual was always the same: Google the error message → pray to the old gods → land on a 2012 StackOverflow thread answered by someone named DenverCoder9. If the stars aligned, there was a code snippet that almost fit. You copied it, pasted it, […]
Social media is so insanely fragmented right now it’s honestly comical. Remember 2009? (15 years ago … how?) I joined Twitter and it felt like the future. Even Facebook—yes, Facebook—was kinda usable back then. Real humans having real conversations instead of performing for the algorithm. Now? It’s just oceans of AI slop, engagement-farming rage bait, […]
The better AI models become at certain things the more fun it is to find things they horribly fail at. My new favorite low brow “benchmark”: draw the Hebrew letter Aleph in SVG format. It should be pretty simple in practice. Three lines: one long diagonal, one shorter curved line at the bottom (with optional […]
[drop_cap]I[/drop_cap]t’s practically a meme at this point. Any time the market share percentage on Statcounter so much as flickers, bloggers and op-ed editors pump out fresh articles proclaiming the glorious dethroning of the Mac/Windows Duopoly. “That’s it, folks! We are finally here: The Year Of the Linux Desktop!” As a ghost-Redditor wrote over a decade […]
[drop_cap]T[/drop_cap]he canonical collection of Hebrew writings known as Tanakh is one of the cornerstones of human civilization. Not only is it the foundational text of the Hebrew people, but it also provides the source code the two biggest religions on the planet were forked from. If, for a moment, we step back and leave all […]
[drop_cap]E[/drop_cap]arlier this year I found myself at a crossroads. Spotify’s recommendation algorithms hadn’t been what they used to be for a long time. I noticed they kept serving up the same lazy “safe picks” over and over again … When my wife kept asking me, “Hey, it keeps recommending that one song, how do I […]