Team Management

Antigravity: How I Built an Autonomous Linux FinOps & Bloat Killer in Python ⚡

Every engineer who manages Linux servers or cloud VMs knows this headache: over time, disk space mysteriously vanishes. You find yourself digging th…

Claude Code and Linus Torvalds: the Linux patch tradeoffs

Claude Code helped Linus Torvalds explore a Linux memory-management change, write test programs and draft its explanation. The interesting part is i…

Action Scaling at the Harness Boundary Beats Trajectory Re-Runs

If you run terminal agents on real tasks, you know the exact point where a run dies. It is rarely a failure of high-level reasoning. The agent knows…

Your Python venv Is (Mostly) a Symlink — Here's Why That Matters

TL;DR — On Linux and macOS, python3 -m venv .venv does not create a copy of Python. The python inside your venv is a symlink that points back to the…

fzgrep: A zero-dependency, OpenMP-parallelized fuzzy line matcher in C

I built fzgrep , a lightweight, OpenMP-parallelized fuzzy line matcher written in pure C with zero external runtime dependencies. The Problem In sta…

Protecting local AI work with incremental cloud backups in TuxInDrive 0.26.57

AI-assisted work increasingly depends on local state that does not live in a normal project repository: conversations, prompts, memories, skills, co…

ChatGPT Desktop for Linux app has a gap - I fixed it

OpenAI recently released the Linux counterpart of the ChatGPT/Codex Desktop app. As someone who recently switched from Windows to Linux, I was prett…

Learning Notes

Note: These are my learning notes from my current phase. I am keeping them as I wrote them so I can look back and see my progress. watched a 1 hour…

Sandboxing Firefox with Firejail: a no-trace browser that can't read my files or reach my LAN

Sandboxing Firefox with Firejail: a no-trace browser that can't read my files or reach my LAN Context I wanted one Firefox profile for "dirty" brows…

I got tired of checking which process was using my ports, so I built Portop

If you work with Linux long enough, you've probably seen this: bind: address already in use And then the usual routine starts. ss -tlnp lsof -i :808…

Architecture of WarchOS: A Custom Arch-Based Setup with Hyprland, a Dynamic CPU Scheduling Daemon, and an Automated Wine Prefix Manager

WarchOS is a custom Arch Linux environment aimed at maximizing system performance, optimizing Wayland workflows, and handling Windows executables na…

Building a Real Android Development Loop on an ARM64 Phone with Ternux + ADT

What if your Android phone could be more than the device you build for? What if it could also be the Linux development environment you build on, whi…

Ephemeral Shouldn't Mean Downloading ffmpeg Again

ADR-010." width="800" height="420" Part 3 got me a clean rebuild from a recipe. It also got me a stupid situation. Every time I launch a Workshop, o…

How I Built a GNOME Utility to Disable My Laptop Keyboard (and What I Learned About Linux Input Devices)

If you've ever used an external keyboard with your laptop, you know the problem: you rest a wrist on the trackpad, or the laptop shifts slightly, an…

**I wrote two practical books for Linux developers, and I’d love feedback from the community** Over the last few years working with Linux, C, embedded systems and kernel-level code, I kept seeing the same problem: there are plenty of resources explaining

Power grab

Stop Hand-Partitioning Disks: Practical systemd-repart on Linux

Stop Hand-Partitioning Disks: Practical systemd-repart on Linux You ship a minimal OS image. The target disk is 64 GB, 256 GB, or 2 TB. Root is stil…

Tailscale VPN Exit Node with Split-Tunneling using WireGuard and Namespaces

Like all other mid-thirties nerds, I run a janky homelab out of my living room. In addition to being my daily driver for gaming and coding, my trust…

I built the Linux client for Azure Virtual Desktop that Microsoft never shipped

A native Linux client for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 with real feed discovery, Entra ID sign-in, and a hardened FreeRDP: packaged as a Fl…

smart agriculture system

This is documentation of my latest and most exciting project so far a smart agriculture system on raspberry pi running a linux image that was custom…

macOS is LEGO. Linux is Minecraft. Notes from building the same app in both.

A Japanese version of this is on Note . Building an app for a Mac is like LEGO. The box comes full of well-made, standardized parts: tidy UI pieces,…

Linux Collaborative Directories

The Nautilus team doesn't want its data to be accessed by any of the other groups/teams due to security reasons and want their data to be strictly a…

Put SSH Behind Tailscale and Close Port 22

Once a VPS is hardened the usual way, keys only, firewalled, patched, there is a bigger move you can make: stop exposing SSH to the public internet…

Your App Center List Is Not a Security Audit

I opened Ubuntu's App Center, scrolled through ~90 installed packages, and asked the obvious question: is any of this malware? The list looked suspi…

Stop Thrashing Under Memory Pressure: Practical zram + systemd-oomd on Linux

Stop Thrashing Under Memory Pressure: Practical zram + systemd-oomd on Linux When a homelab box or small VPS runs out of free RAM, the failure mode…

Why Opinionated Linux Is Back: What Omarchy Teaches Us About Developer Workstations

Why Opinionated Linux Is Back: What Omarchy Teaches Us About Developer Workstations The Linux desktop has spent decades promising freedom. You can c…

Linus Trovalds ~ Founder of Linus and GIT

A brilliant engineer who could have become a billionaire, built a trillion-dollar company, and chased every measure of commercial success. But inste…

systemd vs BusyBox init: Which Init System Fits Your Device?

For most embedded products with a fixed set of services and no user-installable software, BusyBox init is the right default: small, no dependency ch…

Feedback for the first post on my blog

I just started a blog and published my first blog post about Logical Volume Management. I'm new to documenting my work, so I'd really appreciate any…

A Linux video player with NVIDIA VFX VSR support (real-time upscaling + frame interpolation, built with an AI coding agent)

Short version of a recent write-up — no full article here, just the pitch. I wanted RTX VSR-class upscaling on Linux, where NVIDIA only opens it to…