Thu Jun 15
I’m working on Marginalia Search full time. I left the office for the last time today, and it’s the strangest feeling. I’ve quit jobs, taken time off work, been laid off, but this is different from any of those things. This is deliberate. There’s a note of relief. I’ve essentially been working two pretty demanding...
NB: I've started an alternative social media email list, and I regularly email the list with news from the world of ASM. Since many ASM are free and open source software, it occurred to me that I should mirror those emails here on the blog. These might be the next iteration of "FOSS finds," a series I ran in...
Every time I see an engineer gets headroom to make some improvements in the system, I get worried. Even though they can turn complex tasks into complicated ones and solve them, they often struggle with freedom. Even though they know exactly where the problems are or where the team needs to improve, they get lost...
Finally got myself a new laptop: a second-hand ThinkPad T470 that I bought for a really good price. It’s in excellent shape and the seller sent it with a RAM upgrade and a 256GB NVMe SSD that I replaced with a 1TB stick. Not bad at all. Of course I’ve heard a million people wax poetic about the build quality and...
My comprehensive tutorial aimed at optimizing LibreOffice to match the functionality of Microsoft Office. Elevate your document editing experience with tips, tools, and enhancements for seamless and efficient productivity.
Anyone who uses Terraform must be familiar with the import command; it allows you to gather existing resources and put them into your statefile. This way, existing resources which were previously not created using Terraform are now under management of your infrastructure as code. You can import your resources in the...
I actually like writing code. That's really it. If I didn't, I still wouldn't use it due to the ethical/copyright issues, but I don't even have to think that far: I just like writing code. Why would I give something I like to a robot? I don't even mind writing boilerplate! I guess I am somekind of monster. But the...