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Tech Interview I

Today is the day. After sitting for a few minutes in a comfy chair in a lobby of an unassuming office building with serene art on the wall and pretending you are interested in the magazines availab...

Red Light Therapy for Hair Growth

Hair thinning and hair loss can be distressing, but there are several treatments that can help you regrow your hair. Non-invasive solutions like red light therapy are becoming more popular, and can...

Do I actually have selective mutism?

Content Warning: childhood trauma I was diagnosed with selective mutism at the age of four. It’s a label that defined me and explained my differences for most of my life (I only got an autism diagn...

2025_wrapped_games

A list and ranking of the games I played in 2025

2025_wrapped_games

A list and ranking of the games I played in 2025

The books I enjoyed the most in 2025

Here we are at the end of another year, so I will share again the two books I enjoyed the most. Before starting, here are the links to similar posts covering the previous years: This time, after th...

7 Proven Strategies for Learning Faster as an Adult

Learning faster as an adult is entirely possible with the right strategies and mindset tailored to how mature brains absorb and retain new information. By combining science-backed techniques with p...

Who Wants to Live Forever?

IF-ERGO Keyboard

I’ve owned a lot of mechanical keyboards. Over two years ago, I started using an Ergodox layout, starting with the SliceMK. It was difficult to get used to the ortholinear layout of the Ergodox, bu...

The Latest Kitchen and Bathroom Trends

When it comes to renovating a bathroom or kitchen, it’s important to balance functionality and contemporary style. The latest design trends are perfect for everyone, whether they’re giving their ho...

(My) Second Year of the Linux Desktop (For Gaming)

A look back at what it took for me to reach 0% Steam play time on Windows, even though I've been using Linux since I was a kid. Spoilers: Valve and the FOSS community are what made this possible.

10 Lines to Better Docker Compose Secrets

Keep secrets out of your images: use Docker Compose secrets mounted at /run/secrets and a tiny wrapper script that exports each secret file as an environment variable so unmodified apps keep workin...

We dodged a vaccine disaster (for now). And a quick virus weather report before the break.

The Dose (December 22)

The Indie Developer's Trial: Zipic's Productization Journey from 0 to 1

Building an indie product sounds easy, but you don't realize how deep the water is until you jump in. This is the true story of an indie developer turning a small workplace requirement into a flags...

Encryption vs. Compression

Is there a correct order when encrypting and compressing data?

The Martini Bar

Yapping with men whose names I don't know.

Weeknotes 2025-12-21

These weeknotes are coming in a day late because I had a busy and exhausting weekend. My Week Medical Update: I had a weird symptom appearing in routine tests lately. Nothing major, and certainly n...

Weekly Robotics #341

Luxonis Launches OAK 4 Standalone Vision System [Sponsored] Luxonis released OAK 4, a standalone AI vision device that bundles high-res RGB and depth sensors with 52 TOPS of on-device compute and a...

2025_wrapped_music.addendum

A short post looking at some of my favourite musical discoveries

2025_wrapped_music.addendum

A short post looking at some of my favourite musical discoveries