A place where I gather tangled strands of thought to draw something coherent.
Ripping the guts out of Emacs to build a static site generator that doesn't suck. No external dependencies, no string-templating garbage. Just a 40-year-old Lisp machine masquerading as a text editor, redlining a CPU core to beat modern web-dev at its own game. This is a story of stubborn engineering, a total refusal to compromise, and a slow, deliberate descent into madness.
Hand-drawn TikZ effect
The stupid information manager from hell
Codebase auditing and health diagnostics using git
Container log files can grow aut of proportions if left unchecked
Docker is a set of products that uses operating system-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers. Docker automates the deployment of applications within lightweight containers, enabling them to run consistently across different computing environments. The core software that runs and manages these containers is called Docker Engine. Docker was first released in 2013 and…
Ease motion into smooth transitions
Alternating key-value pairs in a flat list, using keywords as keys
Design systems to match user expectations and avoid surprises
Users expect new interfaces to function like familiar ones
Getting out of MSSQL shenanigans
Nmap commands to retrieve a computer name
Locating a machine using only its mac address
A fairy tale about networking
There comes an unavoidable time where you're asked to troubleshoot some misbehaving graphical binary on a shared remote server and, being the paranoid sysadmin you are, you won't simply accept another user's credentials. You're also not a pleb, so you won't open Xpra, NoMachine, or what have you. You use the one true way: X11Forwarding . 1 But because X11 is also paranoid, it won't just let you…
Something that will bite you at least once in your life