Where I yap about life, programming, or anything inbetween
I am starting to feel like I have taken on way too much at once. I have not been able to catch a break since I graduated high school in April, the reason being that I was and still am quite desparate to move out on my own, and that meant having to take an additional two exams on top of the six I already had to take, so that I could study in a different country. Now thankfully I am over most of…
In recent years many people have started pushing back against the addictive nature of social media – mostly by completely denouncing it. This can range from people retreating to their own personal blogs to big influencers telling you how you need to throw your smartphone away and just be present in the moment (how ironic). In and of itself, this is mostly innocuous. Nobody is forced to stay on a…
About a month ago I finally got my first laptop 1 . It's a ThinkPad T15 Gen 2 that was my mother's old work laptop before it got decommissioned. At the time my main system was a desktop computer with NixOS. NixOS is an excellent operating system in its own right, but I was itching to try something different, mostly because having to write complex derivations just to try out a new program was…
I spent yesterday coding a little utility I have been intending on making for quite a while. I've been tracking my finances using a libreoffice calc spreadsheet for over a year, and it works great. It's relatively easy to add a fancy graph or achieve a specific summary format. However, there are some issues with this setup. For one, every expression is evaluated whenever I change something, which…
I love chronological, non-algorithmic 1 feeds. That is part of the appeal of the fediverse over other social media for me, and it is why I love RSS as well. I enjoy being able to curate my own experience on the web. However, there is a small problem with this approach that becomes obvious after a while of using it: you accumulate subscriptions to people whose writing you don't end up being all…
Content Warning: discussion of parental mortality, dysphoria, depression and suicidal thoughts I came across this post on fedi today and it inspired me to write quite a few messy paragraphs in response, which I felt went off-topic quite a bit and would be more appropriate as an independent blog post, so I expanded on it slightly. It's a bit strange writing about this because it feels like I've…
As the renewal date for one of my domains got closer and closer, I decided to look at my Porkbun account and get rid of some of my old domains that don't see much use. I have better things to spend my money on than digital rent. Those domains and their expiry dates are the following: bananaforscale.pics: 2026-05-15 markov.wtf: 2026-09-17 redirect.gay: 2026-10-28 gaycat.me: 2026-06-02 If you would…
Welcome call 2026-02-08: Megvolt az első Welcome call . Egy kedves lánnyal beszéltem, aki először megválaszolta a kérdéseimet. Utána rákérdezett, hogy miért / hogyan döntöttem mellettük. Ezután gyorsan elmagyarázta a következő lépéseket. A kérdéseimre kapott válaszok Ha időközben kiköltöznék külföldre, az probléma? Ha az EU-n belülre, akkor nem Le kell fordítanom a vérvételi leleteket? Nem A…
Két év várakozás után a mai nap végre megtettem az első lépést a hormonterápia megkezdése felé. Mivel magán úton, az Imago nál szeretném elkezdeni a HRT-t, a legegyszerűbb az volt, hogy a vérvételt is magán úton, a Synlab nál csináltassam meg. Időpontfoglalás A Synlabnál van lehetőség online időpontot foglalni. Ez nem feltétlen szükséges, időpont nélkül érkezési sorrendben hívnak be. Viszont…
I'm sure you have heard of Revolut before. They're an online-only bank that has become really big in recent years. They have also caused what was probably the most frustrating experience I've ever had trying to use any online service. You see, Revolut only runs on smartphones 1 . That's not that bad in and of itself, however, they have implemented the strictest root/custom firmware detection…
So apparently I've been gone for an entire month, oops 😅 It's with good reason though, I promise. You might not have noticed if you are reading this through an RSS reader, but I've completely overhauled this website. From the static site generator to the deployment architecture, everything is different about it. I didn't expect it to take this long when I started, but I'm glad I pushed through…
This week went by surprisingly fast. It feels like it just began. Anyway, I spent it mostly doing school stuff. I got the results of my last 2 exams, 97% and 98% respectively, which I am very happy with. I had the oral exams for those this Friday and Saturday, which I feel less confident about, but hopefully they won't drag down my grades significantly. The scheduling of the oral exams was not…
Like many people, I feel like I spend way too much time online. It's a problem I've been trying to fix for some years now, but my half-hearted attepmts have never been enough to drastically change my habits long-term. But with the (corporate) internet landscape becoming increasingly worse and worse over time, I've been feeling more and more compelled to reduce my internet (and computer) usage. The…
Sorry for missing last week's post! I was very tired at the end of Sunday and didn't have enough energy to write, and I didn't want to throw something together just so I wouldn't break a streak. It was autumn break for us in Hungary, but it might as well not have been considering how much schoolwork we had to do. I did finish the big assignment on the first day of the break, and it was nice not to…
Alas, despite promising that I would, I haven't started journaling daily yet. It's hard to get used to a new routine. I don't really remember the beginning of the week very well now, which shows that I do really need it to be able to do these posts consistently. The autumn exam season for high school seniors has finally begun this week, and I'm already through one of my exams. It was the written…
I don't have much to say this week, so I'll keep it short. There was quite a bit of chaos in school, but other than that, it was a pretty regular week. On Tuesday I wrote a maths test about integrals, and I saw some juggling clowns performing at a red light on my way home. On Thursday we received a message from our drama teacher saying that we would need to go into class the next day. For context,…
Hi! School was a lot more chill this week. I wrote some tests I missed during the past few weeks on Monday and Tuesday. On Thursday we had a small obstacle course taken to our school as part of a campaign to get people to be more active. After that, we had about 90 minutes of dancing to prepare for prom. Prom in Hungary is quite different to the American type. Here it's typically about the seniors…
This was a very exhausting week, I didn't really have energy to do much outside of school. Still, I wrote some small scripts (one for bulk renaming files, and a pomodoro timer that integrates with my waybar). On Friday I played some Hypixel bedwars with one of my friends. It's been quite a while since either of us had played, and we didn't win any rounds, but we came second multiple times! I spent…
Having been absent from school for two weeks, a lot of responsibilities have piled up in the meantime. Tests, homework, prom dance lessons. It's exhausting trying to catch up. At the same time, I am full of ideas that I want to turn into reality. New projects I want to create, new skills and hobbies I want to learn, the possibilities are endless. Unfortunately my schedule is extremely busy for at…
I spent this week in Wildeshausen , a small town in Niedersachsen in northern Germany. I was there as an exchange student. Since I knew my week would be action-packed, I switched things up a bit and wrote a small section after each day. Day 1 (Sunday) Today I woke up at 9, and at 12 cycled to Erik 's house with Mattis , my exchange partner. From there his father drove us a few kilometres out of…
After I wrote my last recap post, I caught an illness and ended up staying home for the entire week. Thankfully I recovered quickly, and as I write this (on Saturday), I'm sitting on a train to Wildeshausen for a student exchange, which I'm very excited about since it will be my first time in Germany. To avoid completely draining my phone battery on the 14‑hour journey, I dug up an old MP3 player…
As I was cleaning my room (which I touched on in my previous post ), I found an old 2-megapixel webcam that we've had for about 10 years now. And as I'm now home all day because I got sick, I wanted a quick little project I could spend my time on (instead of studying, of course). I wanted to add a camera to my 3D printing setup so that I could watch a print in real time, even if I'm not in my…
I'm officially in my last year of high school now. As with every period of change, it's kind of scary, but it's also very exciting to think about all the possibilities that will open up for me once I finally graduate. Originally, I wanted to clean my room before school began, but it took a total of two full days and two afternoons to clean everything, so I only finished on Tuesday. I shouldn't…
I have built what I think is a pretty good CSS-only * gallery for this website. Currently it contains the pictures I took in Vienna, but as soon as I edit my other pictures, they will be uploaded as well. The interactivity relies on one of my favourite css tricks: using invisible checkboxes and styling based on the :checked selector. I have my static site generator populate the HTML with a…
I own way too many domains. Whenever a funny domain name comes up during a discussion or randomly pops into my head, I have an irresistable urge to do something with it. At time of writing, I have 9 active domains and 3 expired ones. My latest purchase was bananaforscale.pics . I spent like a month building a website on that domain to justify spending money on it so please use it thank uuu :3
I made an enby flag!! I've been procrastinating on buying a flag like this for ages now. However, I didn't know of any place that would sell this locally, and I didn't want to order one from abroad. So, with the invaluable help of my mom, I made my own. I decided to use cotton instead of the more commonly used flag materials like nylon or polyester, partly because it was easy to find and work…
If you haven't seen the first post about this topic, you might want to check that out before this one. In the previous post, I made some admittedly very subpar looking pins. I wasn't very satisfied with how they looked. And after a couple months, the glue just failed. So I decided to try again using a slightly different approach. This time I made the following changes: Made the pins circular so…
Recently I've been acquiring some pins to make my bag look less boring. But I ran into two issues: I can't always get exactly the design I want, and they're also way too expensive. To remedy this, I decided that I would just make my own. How hard could it be, right? Turns out, actually not that difficult. I wanted to use things that I already had at home, so the basic process I came up with looks…
Hi! I haven't written anything proper for this blog for a while. So, um, happy new year I guess? I'm a little bit late with that lol. I have started rewriting my website again (this is the 8th time if I'm counting correctly), from the ground up. I wrote a new static site generator which is way more usable than my previous one and hopefully should be portable enough that someone else could use it…
I'm scared. Absolutely terrified. Our future is seeming more and more bleak with every passing day. It makes me furious. Furious, that most people are complicit in this. That those who would rather see us dead can get away with anything. We must fight. We must not let them erase us silently. We will fight until we can, and we will not be defeated. FUCK NAZIS
Note (2025-10-19): This post doesn't necessarily reflect my opinions about the subject anymore. (oh no she's writing from frustration again) In the past couple of months, I've been seeing one sentence come up over and over again on fedi: "damn this place sucks, i wanna leave forever." And I agree. I have been debating the same thing in my head as well. Fedi just isn't a good place anymore. When I…
Note (2025-10-19): This post doesn't necessarily reflect my opinions about the subject anymore. Fedi fucking sucks. Especially as a minor, but that's not what i want to focus on right now (there are people who've covered that way better than i could). Rather, i want to talk about metas. Why the fuck are we still doing this? Have we learned nothing? Every couple of months, the entire network turns…
I've been selfhosting a lot of things for myself for a while. It started around 4 years ago, when I got my first VPS . Over time I've increased the amount of things I host by a lot. When you're already running your entire online life on an old PC in your bedroom, it's tempting to set up more services, even if it's not strictly necessary. And that quickly became overwhelming. I got to a point where…
Welcome to my new website (this is like the 7th version, hopefully i don't end up remaking it again (it will definitely happen)) Anyway, i kinda went back to basics with styling on this one. Just some simple colours and fonts. But it looks good, or at least i think so :3 I do want to introduce some dynamic elements though, i already had the guestbook but that was broken for a long time, and now i…