17 January 2026

24 links · Saturday

Stop Pulling Yourself Down

A tidbit on Procrastination and delay of results with a long period of time

Why Creativity Just Became the Most Practical Skill

In an AI-saturated world where execution is cheap, the scarce resource is original framing. This blog post explores how to treat creativity as a practical, trainable skill and how to build it with simple daily habits.

Ruby IO buffering

Understanding why Ruby/Rails logs are delayed in Docker containers but instant on localhost. Dive into TTY detection, libc buffering and Ruby IO buffering layers in detail.

Why Politics Appear in Organizations

When clarity collapses, politics becomes survival. A blunt look at how uncertainty rewires workplaces, incentives, and trust.

The Myth of the ThinkPad

Lenovo does not care about you.IBM did not care about you.Thinkpads do not exist for your benefit. There are a lot of videos and blogs seeking to answer the question “why are ThinkPads so popular” …

I’m not a good enough engineer to code with LLMs – Kian.WTF

I experimented with LLM coding for a bit but quickly scaled back my usage to only niche use cases. I started by using it for data visualization and it one-shot converted my descriptions to the exact visuals in my mind. I then was dealing with a chunking edge c…