devmatei blog
thoughts on code, tech, homelabs, and whatever else is on my mind. no filter, just vibes.
Latest Posts
- i flashed derpfest on my 11t pro and yeah, it was worth it —
the follow-up post where i actually do the thing i said i'd do - i let three ais guess my politics and they all flopped the same exact way —
ran gemini, claude, and chatgpt through the same political compass experiment, receipts included. all three guessed wrong in the exact same direction. - elon was never actually a trillionaire —
the math worked for like 11 days and then it just didn't anymore - why the steam machine is replacing my ass pc (eventually) —
my i5-11400F and 3050 are cooked, the steam machine is a real upgrade, and the ram crisis means im saving up for it instead of building anything - curl is just closing its inbox for a month and honestly good for them —
daniel stenberg looked at the AI slop pile and said no thanks, see you in august - My (aka Dan's) experience with Samsung, Xiaomi and Google —
How my experience with these brands were - minecraft server hosting was free sysadmin training and i didn't even realize it —
how getting roped into a slightly shady hosting "company" by a guy i met online turned into my first real linux experience - derpfest made me want to daily drive a custom rom —
i flashed derpfest on my poco x3 pro as a test and it somehow runs better than my actual main phone on hyperos - "open source is dead" is the dumbest thing i've read this month —
cal.com went closed source and their ceo posted the most confidently wrong take of 2026 - casaos promised me a homelab. it gave me a headache. —
the "one click" app store that had me manually fixing immich at midnight - ye dropped bully and it actually slaps (mostly) —
my full track-by-track review of kanye's bully album, scored and judged accordingly - you don't own anything you bought digitally —
the "buy" button is a lie and has been for years, we just don't talk about it enough. - school is not your only priority —
a slightly frustrated, very sincere letter to the adults in my life who keep saying otherwise - the internet is already cooked —
we spent years worrying about AI slop taking over the internet. it already did. - "coding is dead" has been said every 6 months for 2 years and nobody cares —
a running log of tech ceos telling you to switch careers, with zero accountability - most of my side projects go nowhere. i'm fine with it. —
a love letter to the projects that never shipped and why that's not actually a failure - no, i'm not switching to proxmox —
docker on a minimal debian install is enough for a homelab and i'm tired of pretending otherwise - vibe coding isn't the flex you think it is —
using ai to code faster is great. shipping code you don't understand is a disaster waiting to happen. - i killed my own project by being too nice —
what happens when you want everyone to feel included and it backfires completely - my brain is stuck in english —
forgetting my native language - reflecting on my first "viral" project —
what i learned when 2,500 people hit my homelab at once - My homelab tour! —
showing around nerd stuff - My take on AI using water —
explaining why ai doesnt actually use water like everyone thinks