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? 👇
There’s a popular thought experiment that makes the rounds on the internet, but the arguments presented are a false dichotomy between logic and empathy. The best rationale should use both.
Read more... 2026-05-01 1391 words 7 min philosophyTo be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of machine learning most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer’s head.
Read more... 2026-04-27 840 words 4 min technologyLife was easy when you first started out on NixOS with a single machine. Then you decided you want to have your configs available for macOS as well. Then you wanted to support an arbitrary number of hosts. Then you wanted to group modules more naturally. After some trials and many errors, here is where I ended up to achieve all three.
Read more... 2026-03-20 2844 words 14 min technology