If You Don't Design Your Career, Someone Else Will - Greg McKeown A client once responded to one of my questions by saying, "Oh Greg, I am too busy living to think about life!” His off-the-cuff comment named a trap al ...
You're Not Burnt Out. You're Existentially Starving. - Neil Thanedar “Those who have a ‘Why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘How’.” ― Viktor Frankl quoting Friedrich Nietzsche, Man’s Search for Meaning Let me guess: Viktor Frankl calls this feeling the “existential vacuum” in his famous book Man’s Search for Meaning. Fr...
[Revised] You Don’t Need to Spend $100/mo on Claude Code: Your Guide to Local Coding Models What you need to know about local model tooling and the steps for setting one up yourself
The Quest To Replace My MagSafe Cable A perfectly normal cable replacement turned into a side quest where I was stuck managing Apple and FedEx's logistics nightmare.
Building Wine from Source on an M2 Mac Given that I'd like to move to Linux permanently some time, I want to get a deeper understanding of Wine. Please note this is not a tutorial, more like an adventure, so if you're looking for actual instructions, you may need to dissect this post yourself....
Switching to Omarchy I have a gaming desktop from 2017. Unfortunately, it does not have a chip, which prevents me from upgrading to Windows 11. My PC can run 90% of games on ste...
Why Can’t Gemini Generate Images With Transparent Backgrounds? I tried creating images with transparent backgrounds with Gemini but I was never able to get it working.
Beyond the Ledger: A Case for Self-Hosted P2P Storage - Carlos Felicio Discover why blockchain isn't necessary for personal backups. We explore "Ledgerless Storage": A self-hosted P2P storage architecture that prioritizes efficiency over global consensus.
I don't play the game. I have a lot of things of value to share. I know that a lot of people would appreciate them. I can think of posts that would be very welcome on Hacker News. ...
Developer convenience, infrastructure cost, and losing the open web Lately I’ve been thinking about the cloud platforms, SaaS, AI, scraping, costs, and the gradual closing of the web. At first glance thes...
Preact without a build step, including routing and signals Build tools add a lot of complexity. They solve real problems. But for small projects, they add layers of abstraction I don’t need. I want to write code and run it. No waiting for builds, no …