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Hajime Obsidian Mode – A Quick Guide

Important Right now there's no direct Obsidian plugin, but maybe I'll get to it at some point. That being said, the process is actually quite simple, Now that Hajime v0.6.4 is out and backlink and relationship support is in, I figured it might be worthwhile to put together a short guide on how to wire Hajime and Obsidian together, in case others are interested in using this function. Requirements…

The Human Kintsugi

Kintsugi (金継ぎ; /kɪnˈtsuːɡi/ ) is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the cracks with lacquer mixed with gold, silver, or platinum. The cracks and missing pieces stay visible, and the damage becomes the whole point. This post, like many other things I think about, was born as a shower thought – a time where I let my poor fucking ADHD brain wander while listening to nature sounds…

It's the little things

This is just a short post to say this: it's the little things that matter. It might be the background on your phone, the air freshener scent in your car or just the damn theme toggle switch on your website – more often than not, changing and improving those tiny details can affect not only them, but also the whole experience in general. I generally try and not fuck around with my website's design…

hex

Warning This project is a work in progress, so the content in this post will most likely be updated. Last updated 2026-06-30 As I wrote before – I have ADHD. And while the systems that I put in place for myself do help a fair bit, there is still much that is left to chance, which obviously my brain will forget or get overwhelmed by. So, with the recent AI buzz-word explosion, I've decided to brush…

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ADHD is...

As I go through life, the understanding that some of us are just not... built for the chaotic, clusterfuck of a circus that society pressures the world to become was not only cemented, but also encased in an indestructible material. Every time I hear someone's downplaying, minimizing and trivializing "aren't we all a little bit ADHD?" comment I feel an urge to shake some sense into them. Instead…

AMD GPU Crashes

My Gigabyte RX6750XT Gaming has been crashing for no apparent reason. Warning I already ran DDU. Twice. 2026-05-07 ¶ I finally decided to try and investigate this shit further, so I'm making this a public post. While opening a tab in Obsidian, with no significant GPU load sans LM Studio running in the background with qwen3.5-9b-uncensored-hauhaucs-aggressive being loaded since yesterday (and…

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peek

Warning peek was a tool of necessity that was coded with LLM assistance due to lack of time. This means that bugs are more likely. Yesterday (2026-03-26) we experienced a power outage, and I realized that I'm a dumbass and that all of my monitoring abilities are inaccessible. The reason being is that Prom-Grafana is located on our NAS while Uptime Kuma is on the RPi together with HomeAssistant,…

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2025: A Reflection

2025 is done and dusted, and I'm strolling into 2026 feeling accomplished and happy, but also somewhat nervous, in pain, and unfortunately unemployed. This is my reflection on 2025. The Yearly Theme Travel Professional Career Backstory Analysis Job Hunting Family Health Onwards to 2026 The Yearly Theme ¶ The yearly theme for 2025 was to Focus, to be short, but as I've mentioned in my previous…

I Don’t Need an Office

We just don’t learn, do we? Not as employees, not as employers and not as people. As employees we’re not fighting for what we want, instead settling for whatever "perks" we’re so graciously given. As employers we’re not putting emphasis on what actually matters, instead flexing and peacocking our way into some abstract “Top X” list that shows to the whole world how big, shiny and important we are…

Automating ADHD

Important This article will be constantly updated with new solutions and improvements to existing solutions that I implement for myself. Note The automations below require some hardware (sensors, zigbee radio) and software (Home Assistant), but can probably achieved with other combinations. Adapt the logic to your needs and constraints! As I'm sure I wrote before – I have ADHD , which comes with a…

New Beginnings, 2025 edition

TL;DR Got laid off because of █u████it█ ██d█ up ██a██n█. Went on a trip to Italy with pregnant wife and the kid – 2091.7km in an EV. I'm now the father of two boys. My eyes are betraying me. Found a job as a contractor at TRMNL . Got laid off (again), as the expectations were not aligned (I'm doing more dev work than support). We're still friends. Had > 40 project notes created this year. Fucking…

mkcv

What is this? ¶ mkcv is a small and quick project designed to generate a resume from a YAML definition. Why? ¶ Seeing as quite a lot of people are being laid off recently, and in an effort to keep my own resume up to date, I wanted to try and minimize the effort it takes to keep multiple outputs up to date. The idea is to generate an HTML file that can be used for a webpage, and a PDF…

iOS Shortcuts

Why Shortcuts? New Things What have I created? Uber Shortcut Action Button Radio Picker Daily Quick Notes When we're not spending our evenings behind a heavy metal door, one of the things I find myself fucking around with is iOS' Shortcuts app. Yes yes, one of the reasons I switched to the iPhone was so that I'll stop screwing with my mobile device, but hear me out - Shortcuts are magical. With…

Dengonban

Source | Issues and Feature Requests What is this? ¶ Dengonban (伝言板, "Message Board" in Japanese) is a TRMNL plugin to provide a notice board functionality to the device. Why? ¶ Having received my TRMNL device, I figured a nice addition would be to create a plugin that will allow me and my wife to leave async messages for each other. Think of this like a announcement or a reminder. And…

Update, May 2025

The past three months felt very hectic for me, and at times it felt as if I was losing any sliver of control over things that I, personally, wanted to accomplish. Driven by work, fatherhood and sense of impending doom move (which, thank fuck, is now behind us... almost. Fucking never-ending boxes!), the mental capacity that I could devote towards self-expression and creation just.. wasn't there.…

2025 - The year of all the things

On one hand 2025 just started, while on the other -- oh fuck, we're already in April! The thing for me is, neither of those realizations help with the thought that this year is way more packed than my ADHD brain anticipated. Ain't nothing focus themed about this, but it is what it is. In all fairness, all of the below probably warrant their own in-depth entry, but I suppose I can at the very least…

Hajime + Obsidian = 🤯

Having recently made some adjustments to Hajime to make it possible to author posts via Obsidian, all I have to do now is write something somewhat coherent in Obsidian and run a command in Obsidian (or throw some gang signs that resemble a hotkey, if that's your jam). Here's a short guide on how I set it up. Requirements ¶ Hajime 0.5.7 and above . Obsidian. Shell commands plugin for Obsidian…

Todoist Wishlist

Todoist is great, but in my humble opinion it is missing some (a few of them basic) features that could make it that much better. I decided to consolidate them into a list. Task duration timer - i.e. I thought washing dishes would take me 20 minutes, while it actually took 10. Task dependencies/prerequisites - prevent a task from being completed until all sub-tasks have been completed.…

Yearly Theme 2025

"Focus, you fuck!" -- AvE It is that time of the year again for gyms to undergo expensive renovations fueled by the sudden cash influx caused by three months of "I'm gonna get fit this year" donations. TL;DR My yearly theme for 2025 - The Year of Focus. What's a "Yearly Theme"? ¶ Given that it's already 2025—holy fuck!—I'm assuming some of you might be familiar with the "yearly theme"…

Expando

Salt, Grains and everything in between The material presented here should be safe, but you're encouraged to make your own, better implementation. "I was too late... I should have been here sooner." ¶ Some time ago, I came across an interesting concept of text that was very short, and would expand when you'd click on links to reveal more information. In my infinite wisdom, I didn't think about…

About

I'm hxii hxii (or Paul Glushak) and I'm a developer Python (previously PHP) developer developer-ish kinda guy and team lead R&D Solutions team lead team lead in Forter . I like making ranting, reading and making trying to make cool nice and minimalistic sometimes useful and minimalistic things little projects projects like Hajime and Boku . Read my Now page or get in touch via bsky or Mastodon .

ADHD Productivity Report 2024

The Intro ¶ After realizing and being able to label the issues I was personally experiencing as ADHD, I finally knew which information and resources to seek out, which have allowed me to make quite a few adjustments to how I operate and organize myself and my day-to-day. This being said, every so often I try and review the software I use, especially when it comes to productivity with ADHD ,…

Developers aren't Nerds

Are Developers Nerds? ¶ For the longest of time, I was under the impression that developers and programmers, for the most part, are as or even more so interested in technology, tools, efficiency and productivity as I am. This came from the somewhat outdated understanding that the barrier of entry into programming was mentally taxing and required fucking around with compiling, development…

Now

This is a little now page, inspired by Derek Sivers where I share what I am doing at this point in life (I'll try and update this periodically). Updated August 6th, 2026. Static (The About Section) ¶ My name is Paul Glushak , I have ADHD and online I go by the pseudonym hxii . I am a small-web, lightweight tool enthusiast. This website, which is generated using Hajime , is a collection of…

Boku

Important Boku is still under active development, and some features (those that are intended to be included, that is) are missing. Demo | Source | Issues and Feature Requests What is this? ¶ Boku (僕, servant from Japanese) is a simple, sequential YAML task runner written in Python. While other, most likely much better tools exist that achieve this and much more, the intention was to create a…

Making Sense of The Calendar

I use multiple calendars to separate contexts as well as todo lists to get stuff done, and since I use Fantastical to consolidate all of these sources to a "single window" into my schedule (but also each source separately), not categorizing or writing meeting and block titles properly causes all of them to appear similar, which in turn requires more mental effort as I'd have to look and read the…

Hajime

Hajime (previously called Saisho-PY), meaning "beginning" in Japanese, is a simple, slightly opinionated static website generator built with Python. It is the spiritual successor and replacement to Saisho (which was made in PHP), and is currently still being developed. Get it on SourceHut , Report a Problem or Get in touch . Important It is important to note a few things, in case you are…

New Home on SourceHut

For the longest time, my blog was self-hosted on a Vultr.com server using Saisho . I decided to freshen things up a bit, by finishing what I started with Saisho-PY (temporary name. I think we need something new!) and moving to a CI/CD (or is it just CD?) workflow on Sourcehut . Now, instead of pushing MD files by SSH to my host (yeah yeah, this could've been simpler, I know. Sue me.), I push…

ADHD Productivity Fundamentals

Preface ¶ I'm not some self-proclaimed productivity guru, and this little post is not going to change your life, water your lawn, boost your memory, improve your relations with the opposite sex or revolutionize your productivity. It's very easy to get sucked in and get lost in guides, digital gardens, PKMs, workflows, KBs, automations and whatever else is being shared on the YouTubes and…

Productivity with ADHD

Preface ¶ We humans, oft have way more things than we need or actually know what to do with. It is something we usually can't (or won't) notice until it's either too late and we realize it ourselves or until someone else points it out to us. I recently went through this process again (in retrospect, this happened multiple times throughout the years), except this time, my realization was…

I'm alive

I realize it has been a while since I last wrote here, but I am good and well. Many things have occurred since I last wrote here, most of them good. I won't go into too much detail, but let's just say that life is improving. Recent Developments ¶ I was diagnosed with some level of ADHD: This explains a lot about me, but also helps me find ways of coping and dealing with this "gift". I briefly…

Garlic and Thyme Creamy Sauce Pasta

Meat ¶ I used chicken breast cut into relatively large pieces to make sure it gets marinaded thoroughly. In a bowl combine the following: Red wine that you like. Dried basil. Dried thyme. Dried oregano. Dried garlic powder/granules. Salt & pepper. Put chicken pieces with the marinade in a sealable bag (i.e. Ziploc), let air out and marinade for at least 1 hour. Fry in butter and oil until…

Stir Fry and Fried Tofu

This is here by request. The recipe is fairly undefined, as the choice is vegetables is mostly up to your likes. Tofu ¶ Cut tofu into large cubes, dry by removing water using paper towels and weight applied to tofu. Marinade the firm tofu in a mix of soy sauce, teriyaki sauce, mashed garlic, ginger, salt and pepper from a couple of hours to 2-3 days. Drain the marinade and set aside. Prepare…

Picksy

Picksy ¶ Preface ¶ Seeing as I have not written anything for a little while, a preface, if you will. Just before 2021 ended, I quit my job as I was unsatisfied with not being able to learn and develop myself. Being stagnant makes me just not enjoy what I do and takes me to dark places, so I prefer to avoid this situation. In December 2021 I've joined my new employer, Forter, as a tech…

Making Notes.cx

A couple of days ago I launched my newest project - Notes.cx , which is a small tool came to mind while I was in the car with my wife. At the time, I was working (and still am) on Diary.by , another project of mine, so I asked my wife what would be the chances that she would find use in something like Diary.by. My wife mentioned that she is not the kind of person that would keep a diary or a blog,…

Stoicism

A little while ago, I finished reading a book called The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck , which if I'm being honest, I approached because of it's title (and partially because of the "A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life" subtitle). My hopes were not high as I was not the type of person to read self-help literature, but I went ahead and read it anyways. Well, and sometimes, misplaced…

Saisho Mk. 3

No longer maintained This is no longer updated in favor of Saisho MK.4 – see Im Alive Saisho , the semi-static 1 website engine, has been through a couple of iterations now, and every time I try and make it better while keeping it as simple as I can (after all, the entire point is to have a CMS that offers minimal resistance in daily usage, little to no upkeep and minimal bloat). With each…

Twenty Twenty-one Mid-year

Hello reader. It's been a while. Life... you know? Not much has changed - parenthood is still exhausting; COVID-19 feels like a distant nightmare, at least to others it seems; we still didn't go on any vacations and a lot of my projects or ideas are yet to be written down (properly). It's been hard. It certainly has. But every experience is annealing. Mental state is good. Physical state, however,…

On creating a social network

Preface ¶ After stumbling upon Subreply my interest was piqued - do we still have a place for "alternative" social networks? How hard is it creating such a social network? What are the considerations when creating such a piece of software? The solution was "simple" - create a social network of my own and try to incorporate what I myself would like to see in such a network. Start ¶ Now,…

Plaintext - A simple social network

hxii's AntiSpam

Recently I've finally decided to deal with the spam problem I've been having while using FormSubmit . Despite FormSubmit having their own spam prevention methods, I was still receiving pointless emails from bots using the form: As banning specific IPs is as effective as chasing your own tail, I've decided to employ a fairly simple concept - a honeypot. To make it a bit more interesting, and most…

Picoblog API

This is a (VERY) simple and rudimentary API for Picoblog . It requires much work so, for now, this page is hidden and will be constantly updated. Note: If you're planning on using this, take note of the above! <?php class mblogapi { private $key = "YOUR_SUPER_SECRET_KEY_HERE"; private $post, $sourceFile; public function __construct(string $sourceFile) { $this->sourceFile = $sourceFile; $this->post…

Text Summarization Experiment

This text summarization experiment is(/was?) a small weekend experiment I ended up doing following a small improvement I was trying to do for my KMS project involving automatically generating tags for each document, which would hopefully improve search results. Note: While I do believe it will be clear from what you are about to read, but I will mention this regardless - I have no experience in…