Day 2: Microsoft Hackathon — Distractions, Brainstorming, and Infrastructure
Day 2: tackling distractions, brainstorming with ChatGPT, and shifting to SQLite for scaling.
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Day 1: Microsoft Hackathon — Building a Focused Summarizer for Upstream Linux
Hackathon MVP: building a lightweight LLM-driven summarizer for Debian mailing lists — architecture, data collection, and early lessons.
A Quarter of a Billion Laptops … #Endof10
A reality check on ‘#EndOf10’ panic: numbers, the used laptop market, and practical ways to help users migrate safely.
My Notes on The Goal, by Eliyahu M Goldratt
Notes and key takeaways: the Theory of Constraints, five focusing steps, and practical change questions.
Email was a bad idea, or: How I Learned to Love DNS records
A practical, non-technical tour of SPF, DKIM, DMARC and ARC — why modern email needs DNS help and what to do about it.
My Daughter Made A Strands Game
A dad-and-daughter twist on the NYT Strands game — play the custom ‘Stella’ puzzle and share the results.
Did I vibe code?
My Experience with Vibe Coding: Successes, Challenges, and the Road to Production
Your Rights to Food, Lodging, and Compensation per EC261
Practical guide to EC261 passenger rights: when airlines must provide meals, lodging, transport, and how to claim what you’re owed.
Rediscovering Reading (Without the Social Media Part)
How stepping away from social media and using library borrowing rekindled a slower, more pleasurable reading habit.
Nostalgic Noises
On the small pleasures of owning a NAS — the sounds of background jobs and how they reconnect you to what your machines are doing.