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• getting verified on X is unfair

  october 4, 2026 · 1 min read · internet

  how getting verified on X is OP.

• how does devmatei use AI?

  september 2, 2026 · 2 min read · ai, dev

  a breakdown of how I use LLMs in coding/writing

• why do I self-host my music?

  august 30, 2026 · 5 min read · homelab, selfhosted, music

  a explanation of why I dont just use spotify.

• gpu artifacting shows up in screenshots, actually

  august 16, 2026 · 5 min read · hot topic, dev, hardware

  a certain someone refused to believe artifacting can be screenshotted so now this exists

• the internet's favorite hobby is being confidently wrong

  august 14, 2026 · 3 min read · internet, hot take

  a tiktok comment section taught me more about how misinformation spreads than it did about geography, and i already knew the geography

• a github ban over a music app fork got messy fast

  august 10, 2026 · 6 min read · android, dev, internet

  ai-assisted navidrome fork, a rename under threat, a platform ban, and an accusation that didn't hold up

• why i switched from hyprland back to kde

  august 9, 2026 · 3 min read · dev, hot topic

  the ricing was fun until i actually needed to use my computer

• why ye actually became like this

  july 15, 2026 · 4 min read · hot topic, personal

  my actual theory on the kanye timeline and why everyone's take on it is too simple

• everyone's shoving an llm into their homelab now and i don't get it

  july 11, 2026 · 4 min read · homelab, selfhosted, hot topic

  local ai has become the default homelab layer apparently. i'm not buying it.

• i flashed derpfest on my 11t pro and yeah, it was worth it

  july 4, 2026 · 2 min read · android, custom rom, dev

  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

  june 26, 2026 · 6 min read · ai, hot topic

  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

  june 24, 2026 · 3 min read · hot topic, internet

  the math worked for like 11 days and then it just didn't anymore

• why the steam machine is replacing my ass pc (eventually)

  june 23, 2026 · 3 min read · hardware, steam, personal

  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

  june 22, 2026 · 3 min read · dev, internet, open source

  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

  june 20, 2026 · 2 min read · technology, review, phones

  How my experience with these brands were

• minecraft server hosting was free sysadmin training and i didn't even realize it

  june 19, 2026 · 3 min read · personal, sysadmin, gaming

  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

  june 13, 2026 · 5 min read · android, personal, dev

  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

  may 13, 2026 · 3 min read · open source, hot topic, dev

  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.

  may 12, 2026 · 3 min read · selfhosted, homelab, dev, hot topic

  the "one click" app store that had me manually fixing immich at midnight

• ye dropped bully and it actually slaps (mostly)

  april 5, 2026 · 4 min read · music, hot topic

  my full track-by-track review of kanye's bully album, scored and judged accordingly

• you don't own anything you bought digitally

  march 30, 2026 · 4 min read · internet, hot topic

  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

  march 29, 2026 · 5 min read · personal, hot topic

  a slightly frustrated, very sincere letter to the adults in my life who keep saying otherwise

• the internet is already cooked

  march 24, 2026 · 2 min read · ai, internet, hot topic

  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

  march 12, 2026 · 3 min read · ai, dev, hot topic

  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.

  march 10, 2026 · 4 min read · dev, personal

  a love letter to the projects that never shipped and why that's not actually a failure

• no, i'm not switching to proxmox

  march 9, 2026 · 3 min read · homelab, selfhosted, dev

  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

  february 27, 2026 · 4 min read · yap, dev, ai

  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

  february 26, 2026 · 3 min read · yap, personal, dev

  what happens when you want everyone to feel included and it backfires completely

• my brain is stuck in english

  february 1, 2026 · 2 min read · yap, personal

  forgetting my native language

• reflecting on my first "viral" project

  january 31, 2026 · 2 min read · dev, opensource, homelab

  what i learned when 2,500 people hit my homelab at once

• My homelab tour!

  january 25, 2026 · 3 min read · homelab, hardware

  showing around nerd stuff

• My take on AI using water

  january 20, 2026 · 2 min read · ai, hot topic

  explaining why ai doesnt actually use water like everyone thinks