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Hello, and welcome to my blog! I am Dan.

This all started with me messing around on a lazy weekend, one thing led to another, and now I guess we are here! I write (and rant) about programming, Linux, technology, and whatever else crosses my mind.

Feel free to look around, if you’re not sure where to start, how about these? 👇

Latest Posts:

Does GitHub Copilot Improve Code Quality? Here's How We Lie With Statistics

A friend shared with me an article on GitHub’s official blog boasting a “scientifically significant” study on GitHub Copilot’s effectiveness. I read it out of curiosity, but it rubbed me the wrong way. So, here’s a rant about it.

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2024-11-20 2492 words 12 min technology ai software rant

The Unnecessarily Complicated (But Delightfully Convenient) Way I Edit My Nixfiles

As I was messing about in my NixOS VM, tweaking my little flake experiment, I found myself wondering how I can improve my development experience. What started as a “Could I?”, turned into “Should I?”, and finally settled on “Eh, Why Not?”.

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2024-11-19 1353 words 7 min technology nix linux

Installing NixOS with Flakes and LVM on LUKS

Do you want to set up your machine with NixOS? Are you fond of using full-disk encryption as well? Do you want to be spoon-fed best practices first and learn from them later? Then this is the guide for you!

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2024-08-16 2252 words 11 min technology nix tutorial