gigatexal's blog - Linux, Data-Engineering, Programming, Life

### It's Good, Try It Nothing crazy here ... just been using Sonnet 5 for a long time to help keep costs down at the $JOB but it quickly became hot garbage.

# I'm Loco and Handrolled My Own Firewall And It's Never Been Better ## Well...

Create your own gigatexal.blog-like blog If you like this blog – and I hope you do – then you can fork it and use it too!

Disclose Your Salary: Help Improve Information In The Labor Market date: Sa 22.

Have AWS and Snowflake and Doing Event Driven Things?

# Margin, Margin Loans, and my Aha!

TL;DR - Apple Podcasts is awesome again date: Tue Apr 28 21:52:05 CEST 2026 For years now I’ve spent hours and hours using Marco Arment’s Podcast Player.

### Almost A Year In And I Love My Macbook Pro, Still date: Fri Sep 5 13:28:54 CEST 2025 There's not much to say.

# I Am Mildly Bullish On LLMs Date: Tue Feb 11 00:16:11 CET 2025 Unless you've been living under a rock LLMs - large language models - basically super, duper complex AI magic that predicts the next word or token have taken the world by storm.

Axioms About Berlin In No Particular Order date: Thu Jan 9 22:14:27 CET 2025 1.

# On This Day In 2024 **Update: Thu Nov 14 16:42:12 CET 2024** As of today the GOP now controls the House of Representatives.

Stay Awhile And Listen Ahh, Dekard Cain you old, tortured soul.

Once A Skeptic, Now Not An Evangelist But A Happy User TL;DR - I was once a skeptic of LLMs (Large Language Models) like ChatGPT but now I use them for what they are and nothing more and as a result I am far more productive than I was before.

### MacOS, Windows, Linux, ... there's no perfect workstation OS (for me, maybe you, too) date: Tue Sep 17 00:07:48 CEST 2024 I've a recently updated to MacOS Sequoia aka MacOS 15 [Macbook M3 Max](https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/compare/).

# Unmatched Quality My 2013 almost-top-tier Macbook Pro 15 I got in college lasted me almost 10 years.

# API Gateway And Cloudwatch So there I was prototyping an API on AWS using API Gateway and wondering where the logs were in CloudWatch -- Amazon's Cloud Logs tool.

My Laptop Condundrum and Why Apple Should Thank The Asahi Team Where I’m At Now I have been very happy with Linux of late.

# Access Notes From Anywhere ### A (Very) Poor Man's Org-Mode For Taking Notes I had a colleague at my previous role that would collect wisdom seen in Slack channels or things he learned in a text document.

Coder Radio Date: Sat Sep 16 11:42:37 PM CEST 2023 This podcast from Jupiter Broadcasting is one of my favorite podcasts I listen to every week.

### Today I Learned: Order Only Dependencies In Make date: Tue Jul 25 11:07:30 AM CEST 2023 Now I am almost sure I am using `Makefiles/make` wrong here.

A Historic Day: DJT Charged In The Classified Documents Case date: Fri Jul 14 11:11:44 AM CEST 2023 More Powerful Than The Charges Was The Message On The Rule-Of-Law A formative pillar of mine growing up was that, eventually, the federal government would…

### A Sure Fire Way To Get Promoted date: Thu Jul 6 09:12:24 PM CEST 2023 #### Preface Look this is going to sound like all that garbage you see in the Self-Help isle of the book store.

## Financial Advice To My 20 Year-Old Self date: Fr 16.

## 1 Maxim, 2 Sides date: Tue May 30 01:43:36 PM CEST 2023 The best managers, parents, mentors, friends follow this simple maxim: "Give praise profusely and often in public; provide constructive criticism in private."

### How to get Podman running on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS date: Tue 16 May 21:53:34 CEST 2023 #### Why Podman?

### How To Sort Lines In Place Very Quickly With Vim In VsCode, Vim, or Neovim date: Sat May 6 09:34:50 PM CEST 2023 #### Background In a recent pull-request review a colleague of mine suggested something very smart that showed a lot of empathy for our end

### The Ideal Data Engineering Resume And Other Resume Tips And Tricks date: Tues 2.

### On Pronouns date: Thu Apr 27 04:36:03 PM CEST 2023 This blog is a bit of a "who is Alex" sort of endeavour.

Building A Blog From Scratch Using Only Linux Tools: Update #1 date: Di 25.

### Cookies So Good We Drug Mule Them To Us date: Mon Apr 17 08:32:47 PM CEST 2023 #### We Came For The Quiche But We Came Back Again And Again For The Cookies When we lived in Hamburg we had a lot of luck finding good places to eat by scouring the surrou…

Building A Blog From Scratch Using Only Linux Tools date: Sun Apr 16 10:34:49 PM CEST 2023 Why?

### Playing God date: Tue 13 Apr 23:44:16 CEST 2023 #### Probably Futile Attempts to Save Earthworms I understand how ecosystems work, that there's a cycle of life that leads to an equalibrium in predator and prey populations given the resources available.

### Dogs As Conversation Starters date: Tue Apr 11 07:56:36 PM CEST 2023 #### Introduction I've a soft spot for chocolate labrador retrievers.