Ramblings

It’s been an incredibly exciting time to work in software engineering, and at the same time I feel completely burnt out.

Thoughts on an experiment that I’ve been running for about a month.

Future post on this blog: why my home server is ‘production’ now.

Inspired by a true story.

I had a lot of time to think during an apartment renovation and how it’s eerily similar to what I do at my day job.

Coincidence? Maybe.

I’ve been pushing the limits of LLM-based tooling at work, with amusing results.

Having problems with your team being late to the daily stand-up? Try this!

Filtering profanities is ducking hard.

Out of all the technological hype cycles over the last decade, there is one that stands out the most to me.

Unacceptable.

How a few bad experiences turned me from a brand evangelist to someone who has sworn off of Fairphone products in the foreseeable future.

We can fix this, but it will require some effort on our part.

It was moving day, but for my home server.

Words that I never expected to say.

This is what happens when you know just barely enough to be dangerous.

I’ve thought a lot about the performance, cost and power consumption trade-offs of home servers. Maybe too much.

I’m not sure if I should take it as a compliment or an insult. Probably the latter, given the circumstances.

A few busted upgrades and the heavy-handed push of a software packaging solution has ruined Ubuntu for me.

It was the nerdiest thing ever, and I loved it!

The value of used business-grade laptops is unreasonably high, and I love it!

Writing a blog has been an incredibly rewarding experience for me, and I encourage you to give it a try.

A few seemingly unimportant experiences and choices can lead to big things.

I had the opportunity to speak at a career day for the first time!

Spoilers!

I’m sleep-deprived, completely exhausted, but incredibly excited about the whole experience. Here are my notes, impressions and a lot of pictures about FOSDEM 2024.

It turns out that you can’t trust any USB type A power adapter to be within spec.

How one toggle in the game settings allowed me to enjoy a notoriously difficult game.

A short explanation about what drives me to experiment with new hardware setups in my self-hosting hobby.

I ended up going to a small museum run by a passionate enthusiast in the beautiful countryside of south-east Estonia while on vacation, here are my notes on it.

I went to the hackathon, built some useful stuff and only did stupid things about 4 times!

I had the opportunity to talk about my self-hosting adventure and share some tech tips at k-space, the hackerspace in Tallinn, Estonia.

You can’t ignore maintenance, be it in software or other aspects of life, and here’s why.

I took a look at my site through the Wayback Machine and found that it used to belong to a political candidate in Estonia.

A cheap USB stick and the marketing around it caused disappointment, more at 11.

Whose idea was this?

Something is better than nothing.

Overview of basic analytics during that one time my blog post got traction on HackerNews, and the steps I took to prepare for just this occasion.

How trying out new laptops and messing with my personal computing setup motivated me to go back to a laptop that some would call ancient.

Quick rant about the state of PC-s in 2021 regarding power and resource usage.

Alternative title: ‘Obsessing over things that nobody else cares about’

0GB ought to be enough for anybody.

I’m not sure it does.