Patrick Jackson

GitHub’s down again today, so I think I’ll spend the time moving to a self-hosted Forge.

I’ve been working on standardizing each of my projects onto some common infrastructure and patterns.

I personally believe that if you are writing Open Source code using an ‘AI’, the morally correct license is the most viral copyleft license possible - AGPL.

For my latest quixotic project I decided to develop it in an unstable, “feature-first” manner.

I just got back from spending 3 days of my time and more than $1000 to travel to and attend a conference.

Can you use a CRDT as a Database?

Discuss and yell at me on Reddit along with the people who didn’t have time to read the 1263 words in this post but somehow did have time to read all 188,283 words from the candidates: https://old.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1onhpbt/i_let_ai_vote_for_me_i…

I am working on Eidetica, an OSS project that may one day be a good backend for apps to store data.

Warning, I’m about to get on my mild OCD soapbox again.

Back in the day I honed my optimization chops while working on Project Euler problems.

EDIT: Apparently I’m not alone in feeling this way, here’s a post from the same day I posted this: All LLMs Will Be Sparse BitNet Hybrids I took a break from working on my decentralized DB to dive into the latest LLM research.

If you’re old enough you may remember “Antennagate” from 2010, when iPhone users were told they should avoid gripping the phone in certain ways.

I’m stepping onto my mild OCD soapbox today.

Disclaimer: I am a Software Engineer.

An AI assistant has become an invaluable part of my development workflow over the past year, especially over the last several months.

You’ve heard of SaaS and IaaS, so I wanted to get in on that.

# These three commands are all equivalent pokem !

June 6, 2024 This is mostly a demonstration of what Windows Recall actually seems to do under the hood, and is not meant to be seriously used.

Chaz is a Matrix bot that connects you to a large number of LLM models.

March 20, 2024 I’ve used NixOS exclusively for several years now, and it’s occasionally useful to have an “escape hatch” into a different distro.

Updated May 21, 2025, with a better script example All of my personal scripts with more than a few dependencies start with the Nix-shell shebang: #!

Updated October 3, 2024 Updated with help from @poz and others who have reached out with suggestions.

October 28, 2022 After using Tailscale to manage my Wireguard VPN for the past few months I decided to migrate my network off of it to my own custom configuration.

September 13, 2022 I have been toying with learning Rust for the last few years, but since I wasn’t able to use it at work it never really stuck with me.

If you enjoy something, you’ll tend to do it more often.

Today I’m going to talk about something that may seem a little off-topic; you need to have better passwords for your online accounts.

Recently I’ve been trying to lose a bit of weight.

Feeling like you’re working hard but not getting anything done?

On a cold winter night in 1964, Catherine ‘Kitty’ Genovese was attacked outside her apartment in Queens, New York.

I have a problem with traditional bucket lists.

Self-actualization sits at the peak of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, and while you may not have heard the word it’s what you’ve been searching for out of life.

Ensuring that every child has access to a quality education is one of the most important things we can do as a society.

Think of a fictional character that you admire.

Today I’m going to talk about why people believe stupid things.

120 years ago, an Italian economist named Vilfredo Pareto discovered a similarity between the landowners of Italy and the peas growing in his garden.

I’ve noticed a disturbing trend recently.

The fatal mistake made by almost everyone when trying to improve themselves is to take on too many things at once.

For the past month I’ve been foregoing my usual steaming hot shower for a cold one.

This is part of a series of articles examining Cognitive Biases.

I’m not very good with portion control.

If you’ve never been exposed to the idea of Cognitive Biases, you are probably under the impression that people are typically rational.

In a landmark 1998 study, 67 people were tested to try to determine if willpower was a limited resource.

There’s something about this time of year that inspires everyone to reflect on their accomplishments and look towards the future.