The 'At Home' Burger
The go-to recipe for when a group of friends meets at someone’s house and want a delicious, classic burger.
Read more... 2025-05-02 551 words 3 min cookingConvenient Detekt Conventions
Detekt is an amazing static analysis tool for Kotlin that easily integrates within your workflows. However, since it needs to be flexible enough to support as many use-cases as possible, it’s not as straightforward to decide how to go about it. Here’s how I choose to configure Detekt for my Kotlin projects.
Read more... 2025-04-09 2007 words 10 min programmingThe Best Prank JavaScript Ever Pulled On Me
A short story about the time when software catches you by surprise, and doing silly things in the most unexpected way.
Read more... 2025-01-31 444 words 3 min technologyDoes 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.
Read more... 2024-11-20 2492 words 12 min technologyThe 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?”.
Read more... 2024-11-19 1353 words 7 min technologyInstalling 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!
Read more... 2024-08-16 2252 words 11 min technologyOptimizing the Fun Away
I recently got Beltmatic, a minimalist math-themed factory game. This is how I played through it.
Read more... 2024-07-01 1529 words 8 min gamingThe Future Is Self-Hosted
What started as a nerdy interest turned into a hobby now seems like a necessity. I firmly believe that everyone interested and capable, or willing to learn, should set up a home lab. Here’s why…
Read more... 2024-06-05 1111 words 6 min technologyTheme-Aware Edge-To-Edge In Compose
How to properly offer your Compose mobile apps more rendering freedom by enabling edge-to-edge mode, and then how to deal with the gotchas. In this article we’ll be looking at my attempt at a Material3 UI in Compose Multiplatform, the issues I faced, and the workarounds I ended up using to overcome them.
Read more... 2024-04-25 2623 words 13 min programmingPlease Stop Updating Yourself
Self-updating software is sometimes viewed as a feature, but to me, it’s just annoying. A rant about this practice and a plea to stop this trend.
Read more... 2024-03-31 965 words 5 min technology