A rarely updated blog, mostly about programming.
Recently, a port of Notepad++ to macOS has been making the rounds online, mainly due to the project using the Notepad++ name without permission and in breach of the original author’s trademark. But does it deserve any attention, or is it just AI slop all the way down?
Docker is great, but how do you run Linux containers on Windows? In WSL, of course. The Docker Desktop application is certainly an option, but it eats up a lot of RAM thanks to its Electron-based GUI. It also has an LLM chatbot (because of course it does, it’s 2026 after all). Just the Docker Desktop installer takes up 598 MB. What if you want something simpler and with less RAM consumption? WSL 2…
Writing a static site generator is a developer rite of passage. For the past 13 years, this blog was generated using Nikola. This week, I finished implementing my own generator, the unoriginally named YetAnotherBlogGenerator. Why would I do that? Why would I use C# for it? And how fast is it? Continue reading to find out.
Ten years ago, almost to the day, I wrote a very long blog post titled Deploying Python Web Applications with nginx and uWSGI Emperor. This week, I’ve migrated the Python web applications hosted on my VPS to Docker containers. Here are some reasons why, and all my Docker files to help you do this on your server.
I’ve recently migrated my VPS from Fedora to Ubuntu. Here’s a list of things that might be useful to keep in mind before, during, and after a migration of a server that hosts publicly accessible Web sites and applications, as well as other personal services, and how to get rid of the most annoying parts of Ubuntu.
PowerShell is an interactive shell and scripting language from Microsoft. It’s object-oriented — and that’s not just a buzzword, that’s a big difference to how the standard Unix shells work. And it is actually usable as an interactive shell.
A year ago, I wrote about the sad state of Python packaging. The large number of tools in the space, the emphasis on writing vague standards instead of rallying around the One True Tool, and the complicated venv-based ecosystem instead of a solution similar to node_modules. What has changed in the past year? Has anything improved, is everything the same, or are things worse than they were before?
There is an area of Python that many developers have problems with. This is an area that has seen many different solutions pop up over the years, with many different opinions, wars, and attempts to solve it. Many have complained about the packaging ecosystem and tools making their lives harder. Many beginners are confused about virtual environments. But does it have to be this way? Are the current…
I recently wrote a simple console app in C#. This post tells you more about the language, the .NET ecosystem, and why you should write your next app in it.
You installed Windows on an Intel Mac via Boot Camp, and want to use virtualization in it. But there’s an issue — hardware virtualization extensions are not available. Luckily, this can be worked around easily with the help of rEFInd, an alternate boot manager.