Why I Moved from Arch to Boring Debian Testing
The recent AUR incident did not make me think Arch is suddenly unusable. It did remind me how much trust the whole setup requires.
WhileForLoop
Personal blog about software development, open source and other stuff.
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Why Linux Still Feels Unstable
Regular users expect applications to have bugs. An app can crash, an update can break something, and another update can fix it. That’s annoying, but it is still treated as normal software behavior.
When Metrics Become the Target
Metrics and analytical models are a double-edged sword. They make complex systems easier to compare, automate, and reason about. But once a metric becomes important, people start optimizing for it. Not for the reality behind it. For the number itself.
Wake a Lenovo Legion Go S with a Steam Controller
I wanted my Lenovo Legion Go S to wake up when I turned on a Steam Controller. It sounds like something that should just work, especially on SteamOS, but in my case it did not.
One Year with Hyprland
I’ve been running Hyprland as my daily driver for almost a year. It turned out to be more stable than I expected, more configurable than I needed, and more actively developed than any other project I follow.
AI Adoption Mirrors the Early Internet
The excitement, the blind trust, the security holes nobody wants to talk about. AI adoption today looks remarkably like the early days of the web - and we’re repeating the same mistakes.
Python's Dynamic Typing Problem
I’ve been writing Python professionally for a some time. It remains my favorite language for a specific class of problems. But after watching multiple codebases grow from scrappy prototypes into sprawling production systems, I’ve developed some strong opinions about where dynamic typing helps and where it quietly undermines you.
Feedy - RSS reader for e-ink (and more)
I’ve used many open source RSS readers. Miniflux, FreshRSS, Tiny Tiny RSS - all great projects, but something was always missing.
I like GitLab
I’ve been using GitLab for my private projects for years now. I just started using it at some point and never had a reason to switch.
Everyone Will Be a Programmer
We stand on the brink of a fundamental shift in the software world. The concept of Software as a Service, which dominated the market for the past decade, is slowly beginning to falter. Not because of new competition or better alternatives - but because the very idea of paying for generic solutions is losing its meaning.