If people haven't guessed by now, but against all recommendations, I decided to give Omarchy a try. I can see the appeal. I have to really study what is it that made Canonical's decision to do what it did with Ubuntu that knocked the distro down from popularity rankings for desktop Linux […]

I often struggled with Vim, but I finally decided to try Lazyvim, and it's now when Vim almost finally clicked. That said, I can't honestly be fully productive with it, but it's not bad.

I'm trying out Hyprland. If I had to guess what the appeal is even among those who aren't sold on tiling window management: it allows for different workspace per monitor, instead multiple workspace shared across all monitors. In the latter case, if one were to switch to a workspace on one […]

This thought just crossed my mind: tax revenue collection becomes tricky with EVs. Alberta levies an annual $200 EV registration tax. What if roads can recharge EVs; as in feed the cars back with power, and the vehicle itself can get charged with a recharge fee? Heheh […]

I don't want ARTIFICIAL intelligence. I don't want someone's opinion of what intelligence is, and using that opinion to build something that artificially implements intelligence.

Often times, for me, a CLI built in five minutes is better than a UI built in a day (or, these days, vibe coded in 5 minutes).

What's nice (and tragic) about browsing through X is that there are some deeply hateful people that post some gnarly comments on there, that force me to recalibrate how much criticism that I can tolerate. If there is a project that I've been holding back because I think it's stupid, frankly […]

This whole idea of "personal software" really hasn't taken off yet.

I feel like the most effective way to get a flywheel going is to just release CLIs and libraries that I would genuinely use, or someone asked my help on.

I've met a lot of people with the "I don't want to be a 'part of the system'" mindset, and they end up getting screwed pretty badly later in life. I have no issues with people framing it as a sacrifice, but as a pure benefit? Nah, I'm not seeing it. You're not going to take your pride of "not […]

Just the sheer amount of questions that I have to ask to an LLM to learn a topic from first principles makes me believe that it is highly unlikely that a lot of roles requiring expertise will ever go away in the age of AI. Not even teachers are going away, either. It's the same reason why you […]

The opposite of misery isn't happiness; it's gratitude.

The aphorism "to learn, I want better questions; not better answers" is especially true during the AI era. I've previously expressed the merit of it for prompting LLMs for learning about things in general. But it's especially true for posting content. If a piece of content has a lot of […]

Ignore the judgement of others.

An idiot in motion is far ahead of a genius at rest