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When our feelings & emotions go against what we think is best

For the past month or so, I've been trying to craft (for it is an act of craftsmanship) a morning routine for myself. In an ideal world, it would look something like this: wake up around 5:20am (ki...

Parametric Subtyping for Structural Parametric Polymorphism

Recursive types, generics (sometimes called parametric polymorphism), and subtyping are all essential features for modern programming languages across numerous paradigms. However, structural subtyp...

Living and Working in a Bizarro World

Reflecting on trying to go through the normal day to day while the world burns around you.

Notes on Deepseek R1

DeepSeek R1 is a large language model which employs test-time compute to generate a response. Unlike many decoder-based models in the past which simply continue the given text (and may be fine-tune...

A Macintosh Story

This is the first post in what I am hoping a series of how I took my 512Ke “Fat Mac” and enhanched it to the state it is today. My Macintosh editing this blog post in MacWrite Releasing the Magic S...

Behold! The Barcode Scanner

Good morning

Woke up pretty early today, around 4:30 AM, and didn’t manage to go back to sleep. But all is good. I spent pretty much the whole time listening to Brandon Sanderson’s Rhythms of War, and it was aw...

Certificate Transparency in Firefox

Firefox 136 looks poised to enforce Certificate Transparency.It may be late, but combined with CRLite (and its other Web PKI progress), it may soon be the browser with the most robust Web PKI suppo...

It's time to move on

In the past few months, I started thinking about how I use social networks and the impact they have on my life. Today, I took a strong decision: it’s time to move on from Instagram, a platform that...

Special Edition — App Defaults, 2025 Edition

Special Edition — App Defaults, 2025 Edition TL;DR:Here are my "app defaults" for the year 2025! This blog post has approximately 250 words and may take 1 minutes to read. Inspired by @robb's first...

Tentative steps back into blogging

So yeah, hi. Hello. Ahem... Good to see you again! It's been a while, and I hope things have been going well for you. Not so long ago, my second son was born, and I stopped writing here. I kept jou...

Don’t use TypeScript’s string enums

I’ve written about TypeScript enums in the past, and back then I encouraged the use of enums with string values instead of numeric ones due to the improved type safety and debuggability you get. Th...

SilverStone Technology CS382: Six Months Later

I share what I like and what I dislike about the SilverStone Technology CS382 case after using it for 6 months.

Switching to Ghostty

Ghostty 👻 In December 2024 the new terminal emulator ghostty created by mitchellh (founder of Hashicorp) was released. I originally had the (incorrect) assumption that it was similar to other “new”...

The Debate Bro and his fallacy

“Debate” as a sport is one of the most degenerate sports there is. I say this as a former participant in the sport, having done quite well for a first-timer, but quickly realizing how vapid and mas...

Separating dark mode and night shift on a Mac

On iOS, it’s possible to use a custom schedule to turn on the night shift (slightly tinted yellow-orange) mode separately from a custom schedule for dark mode. For some reason, this isn’t possible ...

Accessing Home Network Resources with a Cloudflare Tunnel

I have plans to eventually set up a VPN to access my home network, but in the meantime, I opted to set up a Cloudflare Tunnel to access certain local resources. I also just wanted to play around wi...

Linkfest #30: Greyscale Gelato, the "Ott Derivimeter", and Vangelis' Ambient Music For Surgeries

Hello again! Time once again for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, for which I cruise the endless overpasses of the Global Information Superhighway, searching for the finest p...

atproto and ownership of identity

The new age of social-enabled apps atproto is very exciting to me as it’s the perfect abstraction between the identity and user data layer, and the application layer. Compare that to the fediverse ...

Blog Questions Challenge

I've seen this challenge on Herman's blog. I liked it, so I decided to do my own version, even though I'm not using the bear blog. For the same reason, I slightly adapted the original questions. Wh...