Kagi Search user reports improved search quality and more blog-based results after switching from other search engines, noting a significant reduction in AI-generated content. The user also argues tha…
The article discusses the growing fragmentation of code forges as users and companies migrate from GitHub to alternatives like Codeberg, Forgejo, and GitLab. It highlights key concerns such as trackin…
The article describes a technique for improving focus and productivity by staring at a blank wall for 5-10 minutes when feeling mentally drained, which helps reset the brain after information overload…
The author reflects on how a personal crisis (being sick) led them to rediscover the joy of writing code manually, rather than relying on AI-driven development tools. They contrast this experience wit…
The article describes a small Rust-based back-end system called "upvoters," created to handle anonymous upvotes on static blogs, with compatibility for Hugo. The author also mentions recent website de…
The author confesses that some previous blog posts contained unedited AI-generated segments, which compromised authenticity and hindered the development of their personal writing style. After reflecti…
The article introduces an individual who is a father of two, a husband, and a scientific backend software developer with a PhD in Computational Materials Science from Georgia Tech. It lists their tech…
The Pillars, Pipelines, and Vaults (PPV) system, created by August Bradley, is a productivity framework designed to align daily actions with long-term goals across key life areas called pillars. The a…
The author explains their decision to switch from the st terminal emulator, which they valued for its speed and compatibility with DWM's swallow patch, to the Ghostty terminal. The primary reasons for…
The article describes a user's attempt to unify keybindings between a Mac work laptop and a personal Void Linux system running the dwm window manager. To resolve the frustration of accidentally pressi…
On Void Linux, an NVIDIA MX150 GPU in a ThinkPad T480 was experiencing CUDA initialization failures after sleep/wake cycles due to corrupted GPU memory mappings and MMU faults. The solution involves a…
The author, a software developer, finds generative AI tools like Claude highly useful for certain tasks, such as Java Spring Boot development, but notes that local models are only adequate and that th…
The author attempted to upgrade their Debian server from Buster to a newer version but encountered a critical failure when installing a new package, which removed libcrypt and locked them out of the s…
This article provides instructions for installing the CUDA toolkit on Void Linux, detailing the use of a silent installation command with specific flags like `--override` and `--no-opengl-libs`. The a…
The article documents two solutions to Java development issues. The first problem, where jdtls crashes with status code 13, is resolved by deleting the `~/.cache/jdtls` cache directory. The second pro…
After two months of full-time Rust development, the author plans to use Rust instead of C++ for future performance-critical projects. A key reason is that Rust's syntax is cleaner than modern C++, par…
The article describes the author's workflow integrating tmux with Neovim for efficient terminal-based development, including custom tmux configurations like remapping the prefix key to `C-p` and enabl…
The author switched from Artix Linux to Void Linux after experiencing stability and compatibility issues with Artix, including problems with package mixing and configuration debt. They praise Void Lin…
The article describes the author's difficulty using Valgrind for memory debugging on Artix Linux, as both Artix and Arch Linux have removed debug packages in favor of a debuginfod system. While debugi…
The article explains how to highlight the active menu item in a Hugo website by ensuring menu URLs end with a trailing slash. The author describes creating a custom theme with a navbar defined in `hug…