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Technical writing and miscellaneous thoughts on software development and devops.
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The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code
https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-reading-code/
How To Fix Sticky Plastics
https://www.ifixit.com/News/93833/ask-ifixit-how-do-i-fix-sticky-plastics
NASA on Flickr
Artemis II has been incredible.
The Struggle of Resizing Windows on MacOS Tahoe
https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/
Everyone in Seattle Hates AI
https://jonready.com/blog/posts/everyone-in-seattle-hates-ai.html
Hire Junior Employees
Abandoning junior roles in your company is a life-or-death bet that AI will eventually replace ALL roles.
Warren Buffet’s Final Letter as Berkshire Hathaway’s CEO
You must read Warren Buffet’s final letter to shareholders as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.
The Stars are Aligned: 2026 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop
We’ve been joking about “the year of Linux on the desktop” for three decades now, but it really does feel like the stars are aligned for 2026 to be that year. For it to finally grab a non-niche marketshare in the desktop/laptop computer market.
Raised Panels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6iIqZY4gvc
The ‘Toy Story’ You Remember
https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-story-you-remember
SF Parking Cops
https://walzr.com/sf-parking/
The Em-Dash Debacle
If you’ve been anywhere on the internet in the last year or so, you’re probably familiar with what I am calling the “Em-Dash Debacle”. In case you missed it, the core issue is this: LLMs tend to generate a lot of em-dashes in their text output. Most people do not write with proper em-dashes these days. People (at least english speaking people) write with a lot of dashes, but they tend to actually…
Hosting a Website on a Disposable Vape
https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/
Why I Love Obsidian: Hackability
I use Obsidian as my primary note-taking tool. There’s so much I love about it: It’s fast. It’s local-first. It’s run by a small team with a focus on being a sustainable business. It’s got lots of plugins that extend functionality. But by far the best feature is that it stores all data in plain text files.
Implementing a Foil Sticker Effect
https://www.4rknova.com/blog/2025/08/30/foil-sticker
Giving Omarchy a Shot
If you’re at all involved in the web development, Ruby/Rails, Linux, or general tech community you’ve probably heard of Omarchy - a new “opinionated Arch + Hyprland Setup” by DHH - CTO at 37 Signals and creator of Ruby on Rails.
I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display
Engineered Addictions
The Most Dangerous Building in Manhattan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q56PMJbCFXQ
How to Build an Agent
https://ampcode.com/how-to-build-an-agent
Kagi Search Stats
https://kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboard
Creating a Linkblog
I am adding a “Linkblog” to this website. It’s a way for me to share interesting links I find online and maybe share a few thoughts or comments about it.
git who
https://github.com/sinclairtarget/git-who
This Material Gets Bigger When You Squish It
https://youtu.be/Pw3AvKcHeTw?si=Y0MxHxeOUtrlSh0A
Mac Mini Home Server
I just purchased a new Mac Mini with the intent of setting it up as a home server.
My Personal Software Stack - Fall 2024 Edition
It’s interesting to look at how one’s software usage changes over time. Some people use the same tools for years or even decades. Some people change productivity tools every six months. While I do have a /uses page that lists the tools I use to accomplish work and have fun on the computer I figured it would be nice to take a snapshot of the software tools I am using at a particular point in time.
How I Use AI
It’s the middle of 2024 and unless you live under a rock you’ve certainly encountered the trend of “AI” infiltrating virtually every piece of software we use. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but there are some AI features that are far more valuable than others. Here’s how I use AI in my day-to-day life.
Social Media Diet
Stop me if you’ve been there before.
2023 Year In Review
It’s 10:38 AM. I’m sitting at the kitchen table and the house is a warzone of opened presents and to-be-put-away special dishware and decorations from Christmas. I’ve got three loaves of sourdough that are halfway finished fermenting. One child is running around the house with a candy cane and sticky hands (my nightmare). But the youngest is napping so it’s going to be now or never. I’ve tried to…
Fighter Jets Can’t Go To Space
Fighter jets are a technological marvel. Capable of traveling at several times the speed of sound and flying miles above the surface of the earth. From our spot on the ground, it’s easy to look up and blown away by the power and speed on display and think ‘Wow, that thing is unstoppable.’
Back to Forums
In case you’ve been living under a rock the past couple of weeks, people are kind of mad at Reddit.
AI Pessimism
There has been a lot written about AI lately. Particularly large language models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT-4. Yet despite my best efforts, I find myself in a constant state of pessimism about LLMs and generative AIs and what they mean for humanity.
Enabling Comments
Quick update - I have enabled comments for blog posts on chambers.io. Scroll to the bottom of the page to check it out!
2022 Year In Review
Highlights
Heroku: Worth Reading About
If you are not familiar with Heroku, it’s a platform-as-a-service for deploying and running software applications. That sounds so simple, but Heroku was actually one of the first companies to do it, and do it well. Heroku started as a humble tool for building, deploying, and running ruby-on-rails websites, but grew to be so much more. At a time when most people were still deploying their…
2021 Year In Review
Highlights
2020 Year In Review
:book: Books I Read
vb4c - The Road to 1.0
Introducing vb4c - Vim Bindings for Chrome!
2019 Year In Review
Highlights
New Adventures Ahead
I’m joining Zendesk!
We use it for everything, and most of us have no control. It’s kind of insane.
Linux & Unix Command Line Essentials
When I got my first SysAdmin job (as a Student with the Center for High Throughput Computing) my Linux/Unix knowledge was passable but not great. I started to keep a list of commands I regularly used for my own education and technical improvement.
Rest Easy - You’re Now Browsing With HTTPS
As of today chambers.io is officially served up over HTTPS.
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Bash!
If you’re using a modern terminal emulator with unicode support (for example, the default Gnome terminal shipped with Ubuntu) you can add Emoji to your bash prompt.
What the Hell is a Shell?
You see the term ‘Shell’ tossed around a lot these days. The Bourne Shell (sh), Bash (Bourne Again Shell), Powershell, etc. What actually is a “shell”?
Don’t Fear the Command Line
Someone made a funny remark at work the other day. Before I begin, here’s a little background. At one point in time, long before my own computing years, a command line prompt and terminal window was the the primary - often only - way of interacting with a computer. Today, the thought of using a command line is alien to many. I was brought up in a GUI world, and I love every thing about it. Yet it…
On Keeping Notes
I made a tiny script for keeping simple text-based notes. You might find it useful too. Introducing: Note Keeper
Radiology Tech Stack
In January of 2018 I started a new job with the Department of Radiology in the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health. Phew, that was a mouthful. From here on out, I’ll just refer to it as “Radiology.” Our department is dual-purpose. We support both academic research in the School of Medicine and we build and support clinical applications that are used every day by doctors…
Git vs. The Competition
If you have been following along during Git Week 2018, you know that Git isn’t your only choice for version control. There are plenty of other options out there. Are they worth looking at? Git has a few features that set it apart from many other version control systems. In the final article for Git Week 2018 (a little late - sorry! :frowning:), we’ll look at how Git is different and how it stacks…