Open source

Kopi is a command-line (CLI) coffee journal (or habit tracker) designed for coffee enthusiasts. It lets you track coffee beans, equipment usage, brewing methods, and individual cups.

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.

Project updates from the current consecutive three-month period, with info on the current status of my projects and next steps. You might find this interesting in case you’re using any of my open source tools.

Going off-the-grid with an add-on for the Star Labs StarBook – and pretty much every other laptop – that adds situational awareness through various sensors and removes the need for privacy-invasive cloud services for things like GPS positioning and current temperature.

After over four years, I am simplifying the UPDC to make it more lightweight, more portable, and less in the way. This is a status update on the Ultra-Portable Data Center.

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

Project updates from the current consecutive three-month period, with info on the current status of my projects and next steps. You might find this interesting in case you’re using any of my open source tools.

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.