Hi! Partially a personal memo, partially a collection of tidbits, this blog is my attempt to improve myself and the world around me. Mostly the blog will ...
Containers can be used for easy and effective isolation of agent harnesses from your development environment Letting agent harnesses, like Pi or Claude Code run on your machine with your credentials is convenient but also very insecure. Limiting the bots by telling them 'thou shalt not' is pretty much as useless as it is with people, so some proper limitations to capabilities are warranted. If the…
It's been over a month since I started on my mission to move my app subscriptions , so now is a good time for some reflection. Photos to NextCloud Migration from Ente went really smoothly and I haven't really thought about it afterwards. Memories has been a solid app for viewing the gallery, collaborating on an album with friends is a breeze, and the auto-upload from the phone to the storage has…
GitHub Copilot CLI can work with custom models, but switching between these in an active session is not possible. This will hopefully be fixed soon, but in the meantime here's a decent-ish workaround I have in my Sidekick.nvim configuration. I'm currently testing Regolo.ai to see if working with European LLM inference would be a valid substitute for GitHub Copilot business subscriptions. I've been…
I thought that of all of the goals of my European migration journey, Kagi would be the easiest. I believed there to be no alternative, so I could just shrug and continue to be a happy customer. For those who do not know, Kagi is (or at least started as) a paid search engine. No ads, no tracking, just a stellar search tool. Sure, nowadays they've expanded a lot (creating a new browser among other…
wsl --manage <distribution> --move <target> happily starts without admin permissions but fails midway, leaving a broken installation behind. Luckily it's easy to roll back by moving the ext4.vhdx file back to the original location. Use the export-import mechanism instead, since that actually works... I was trying to set up VLLM with docker on my WSL Ubuntu when I ran out of disk space. I'd…
Now that my photos and emails have been relocated to Europe, it's time to move my credentials too. Bitwarden has been my password manager for many years. It provides a very smooth experience, is frequently audited, and supports open source. Although there may be something happening behind the scenes that has some people worried, my reason for switching is only due to my intented European migration…
Ente is done and next meal on the menu is Fastmail . I've been a happy Fastmail user for years. The service is good, the apps are nice, and everything works just as you'd expect an email provider to, with practically zero shenanigans or downtime I've observed. So why am I switching? Mostly it's about them being Australian, so a part of the 'five eyes' intelligence alliance, sharing the table with…
So begins the move to European providers . Ente is the easiest of the bunch to move since nothing depends on it. I already have a NextCloud instance running with spare capacity, so in this instance I'm also saving money. I'm not a photography enthusiast, so my requirements for a photo app are simple - a safe backup and a simple, efficient viewer with folder organization (which Ente still lacks ),…
Having talked about it for so long, it's finally time to put my money where my mouth is Update: here's my review after a month . Spoiler - totally worth it The movement for European tech sovereignty is picking up speed nicely, with the French leading the way with their public sector moves (🫡). I'm doing a lot of talking about using European alternatives in my organization, but my own stack is due…
I've been a very happy Rider user for many years - and still am! It's an excellent IDE for .NET work, with most batteries included, and most of those batteries (debugger, http client, integrated terminal, AI Assistant...) of very high quality. I was very content - until I brushed on the dark temptation of vim ... For many developers the first and only touch point to vim is as the default commit…