Journal

A brief review of the Garmin tactix 7 AMOLED smartwatch, coming from an Instinct 2X Solar Tactical Edition, specifically focusing on a feature that is exclusive to Garmin’s high-end models: The Electrocardiogram.

Having gotten rid of my sole multimedia editing machine – a 2018 MacBook Pro – and tried but failed to implement a workflow on my computer, I set out and tried a different approach with the Google Pixel Tablet. Instead of using Google’s Android, however, I’m running GrapheneOS. This is a brief review of my experience with the De-Googled Pixel Tablet.

An opinion on the trend of content creators promoting Tmux and Zellij for desktop environments – and why these setups may miss the point.

Tl;dr: Whenever you’re working on your laptop with an external keyboard, preferably an HHKB, on top of your laptop’s keyboard, you’re working Sonshi-style (尊師スタイル).

In 2024 I was lucky to enjoy a wide variety of great coffees from roasteries in Honolulu, Seoul, Vietnam, Berlin, Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, and other cities. This is a compilation of many of the coffees I got to taste.

It has been roughly a year since I got my 9Barista jet-engineered stovetop espresso machine, which has ever since been my go-to method for brewing coffee. This post is an introduction and brief review of my experience with the espresso maker.

“Do you pine for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?”
– Linus T.

The Google Pixel 9 has just been released, making this probably the best time to snap up its predecessor, the Pixel 8 – a solid phone with years-long software support – and switch to GrapheneOS along the way!

A brief write-up on how I’ve set up my Linux desktop environment to be minimal yet functional, to let me work and use the computer as efficiently as possible. All without using Xorg.

No coffee for a week? Taking cold showers for thirty days? Ten push-ups a day for a year? How about comitting at least a single line of code every day for five years? I’m in!