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This is a story about how I backed up an entire VPS from a commercial provider that really likes to fuck people over. With a NAS, sheer willpower, and a MacBook

The act of pumping immense, disproportionate resources into a previously casual or complex and layered activity to forcefully extract and squeeze out the purest, most concentrated dopamine hit

A guide on how to set up your own private DNS server with filtering capabilities using Caddy and AdGuard Home. This tutorial will help you create a secure, encrypted personal DNS endpoint that you can use from anywhere in the world.

A benchmark I devised to test the ability of various stupid LLMs to write a bash oneliner that parses the raw LLM streaming API output into a live-updating chat-style display. It's a fun, single-shot benchmark that tells me a lot about the models' coding ability, instruction-following, and tendency to overthink.

A rambly post about how some dumb LLMs, especially OpenAI's gpt-5-chat-latest, have a weird tendency to address users as Dear user, in responses, even when it doesn't make logical sense to do so. I explore possible reasons for this behavior and share some funny examples.