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Blog
Some stuff that came to mind.
Taming SDDM: How I Made My Second Monitor Behave on Login
Fixing a rotated secondary monitor on the SDDM login screen. A look at how I moved from a hacky package-manager patch to a clean, update-safe configuration.
Zero Servers, All Power: Building a Jamstack Blog That Publishes Itself
I wanted a blog that worked like a modern web app (a rich editor with media management and draft workflows) but served like it was 1999: static HTML, zero server cost, and fast enough to make a CDN blush.
My Brain Cells are Stretching: Structs, Slices, and Mind-Bending Closures in Go
From confusion to solving the Fibonacci closure on my own! Adjusting to Go's strict rules has been a challenge, but Part 2 of the Go Tour brought some incredibly rewarding breakthroughs.
I Need To Go: My First Steps in Go
Does Go bring together the best of Python and JavaScript? 🤔 I recently started the Go Tour and documented some of the syntax quirks that caught me off guard, like the naked returns or the "for-as-while" loop. Here is a look at my first steps learning Go as a JS/Python developer.
Keyboard-Only Mastery: Why I Switched to Hyprland
After testing Hyprland via Omarchy on a budget 2018 Pentium Silver laptop, I knew the performance was real. Three months into daily driving HyDE on CachyOS for my software engineering work, here is why I migrated to a keyboard-first workspace.
From Bloat to 5% CPU: Tuning My Workspace with CachyOS and HyDE
Tiling window managers offer incredible speed, but configuring them can quickly turn into a maintainability nightmare. Here is how I used HyDE on CachyOS to build an ultra-fast, modular desktop environment, complete with a custom NextDNS Waybar widget, treated exactly like production code.
From GUI to TUI: Why I Switched to Yazi
File managers are the unsung heroes of our daily development workflows. We use them constantly, yet we rarely think about them until they slow us down, or worse, break entirely.