(And use XDG Base Directory for your next unicorn startup)

And I'm tired of pretending it's not

This article examines my frustration with the false dichotomy of theory vs practice and attempts to arrive at an understanding of how and why it continues to exist in the first place

And what lies in its wake

Don't leave valuble performance on the table, replace string manipulation with math when dealing with numbers

This is what the approach to solving FizzBuzz can tell you about how a person thinks about writing code.

Cassette tapes in 2023, because why not?

Recently I started making an effort to write poetry as a way to transform and process my feelings. This is a breakdown of that process.

Life can be difficult sometimes, this is one of those times.

Some of the difficulties I encountered while trying to self-host applications on my local network.

Balance in the universe of Star Wars isn't what we commonly understand it to be. This is my analysis of the subject.

Why there's value in the seemingly innocuous and the ordinary.

Why finding inspiration to write about something is difficult, the pitfalls of running a blog and more.

A brief look back at all the phones I used to (or still) own.

Ever wanted to encrypt your Email? Unfortunately, this crucial privacy tool is too complex for most people.

I always wanted to add support for comments on my blog. I just couldn't find a convinient way to go about implementing them, until I joined Mastodon!

You don't have to continue using Steam Guard for 2FA, here's how to use Bitwarden instead.

Redundant doccomments increase noise and hurt readability of code.

Summing up my experience after installing LineageOS with Micro-G.

Learn how to use guards to improve the readability of your code.

Gnome is possibly the best (or worst, depending on who you ask) desktop environment out there.

Key concepts of the OSI model explained.

Facebook's downtime may be over, but what to make of the damage they've caused and continue to cause to their users?

A blog allows for your own personal space. I'd argue that everyone should express themselves in this way.

Nvidia has never cared about anything but profit and the recent limiting of the hash rate on the RTX 3060 GPUs is no exception.

But surely you do. Everyone does. Here's why the nothing to hide argument is terrible.

Clear your android phone of useless junk that comes preinstalled with the system.

I recently started collecting all sorts of physical media, here's why you should too.

There is much hype about learning to use Linux, here's why you shouldn't.

The modern web is terrible, here's what we can do to fix it.

In case you happen to have a sizeable collection of FLAC audio files like I do you might want to encode them into a mobile friendly format.

Why using a permissive software license like MIT or BSD isn't ideal.

Why I no longer use JWT and why you shoud maybe consider doing the same.

Easily create a bootable USB drive for your *-NIX installations in just a few simple steps.

If you're running out of RAM creating a swap file can help improve performance

Find out how to easily create a new user on your GNU/Linux system