Disaster Recovery Backups With Rsync
A NAS with ZFS is both reliable and easy to back up, but to avoid surprises and for peace of mind, let’s also set up a conventional failsafe backup as well!
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To 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 technologyUnified Modules For Your Nixfiles
Life 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 technologyAcademic Slop Just Reached a New Low
In an effort to justify more use-cases for their chatbot, OpenAI introduces Prism: an online LaTeX editor tailored for professional researchers. There’s only one problem: everything.
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There are many projects that can remotely manage NixOS in the most fabulous ways. But, let’s be honest… they seem daunting and overengineered for beginner to intermediate hobbyists. Is there a simpler way?
Read more... 2025-11-28 1012 words 5 min technologyProject MiniNAS
A pragmatic guide for simplifying personal storage with TrueNAS and the Beelink ME Mini.
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Over the past couple of years I’ve been experimenting with MiniPCs, and the more I do, the more I’m convinced this is the future I want to invest in.
Read more... 2025-08-24 1611 words 8 min technologyHow I Lost The Silicon Lottery
A tragicomedy about being an early adopter in the current tech ecosystem.
Read more... 2025-05-08 3448 words 17 min technologyThe 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.
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