Before beginning, here is the source code for this website and everything I'll be talking about. If you've read my previous post and clicked on the little collapsible section up top, you will already know that something is afoot. I wrote the initial code for this blog nearly 5 years ago, since then it's mostly remained unchanged, with the occasional face-lift or Emacs version bump. The way it used…
This is a very quick write up, to share an optimization I did and to ask folks to try it out and see what they find. I run ZFS on my workstations and as such I get to both relish in the good parts of ZFS and also suffer under the bad parts daily. One of the primary issues I've had is Nix seeming very very slugish. In the past I've fixed some of it by VACUUM -ing the database that Nix uses (located…
I'm tired of a lot of things, of some people, of politics, but what's currently grinding my gears the most are LLMs. No! Don't click away, I'm not about try to convince you that LLMs are bad, I'm tired of that too. What I hope to convey is how tired I am of discovering new software projects. Back in the days of old, before this LLM shit took off, discovering a new project was pleasant. Someone…
If you're at least somewhat like me, then you use ZFS almost religiously. Every server, every laptop, every appliance (excluding those that really could not run ZFS due to memory constraints or fragile flash storage) runs ZFS. You run ZFS even if you don't use mirrors, stripes, or any kind of special vdevs. You run ZFS because you want to, because having snapshots, datasets and compression makes…
I've grown up with technology, when I was 10 it was already the 2010s, I never had the option of avoiding technology as back then I wasn't old enough to make these sort of decisions. YouTube Last year, while talking to a great friend of mine about addictions, he mentioned that making things inconvenient for oneself is a good way to stop doing them. I started off by DNS blocking YouTube domains on…
Today I'm starting a new experiment for my well-being. I have decided to cut down on almost all forms of instant messaging. Over the past few years I've noticed how attached to phones and other electronic devices my generation (I'm 21) is. I've also talked to multiple people that are older than me, who've also expressed concern about how my generation functions. Phones and instant messaging have…
In this N part blog post series, I'll show you the exact process of packaging Searx a meta seach engine. Here's an excerpt from Searx's readme to shine a bit of light on what we'll be packaging. Searx is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. Additionally, searx can be used over Tor for online anonymity.…
So after Christmas I decided to buy myself something nice. I thought about a buying a new home server. But because ideally I'd be moving to the Netherlands for university soon, I decided that it would be best to get something small and portable instead. After much pondering I settled on buying a crypto wallet. I could use it eventually to get into trading but also to replace my current janky GPG…