Jadarma's Blog

AI was the last straw that convinced me I need a PKM system.

A NAS with ZFS is both reliable and easy to back up, but to avoid surprises and for peace of mind, let’s also set up a conventional failsafe backup as well!

Quick and easy banana bread recipe you can mix in a single bowl and cook in an instant pot.

There’s a popular thought experiment that makes the rounds on the internet, but the arguments presented are a false dichotomy between logic and empathy.

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty.

Life was easy when you first started out on NixOS with a single machine.

In an effort to justify more use-cases for their chatbot, OpenAI introduces Prism: an online LaTeX editor tailored for professional researchers.

There are many projects that can remotely manage NixOS in the most fabulous ways.

A pragmatic guide for simplifying personal storage with TrueNAS and the Beelink ME Mini.

Over the past couple of years I’ve been experimenting with MiniPCs, and the more I do, the more I’m convinced this is the future I want to invest in.

Comfort food egg recipe, soft and loaded with goodness.

A tragicomedy about being an early adopter in the current tech ecosystem.

The go-to recipe for when a group of friends meets at someone’s house and want a delicious, classic burger.

Detekt is an amazing static analysis tool for Kotlin that easily integrates within your workflows.

A short story about the time when software catches you by surprise, and doing silly things in the most unexpected way.

A friend shared with me an article on GitHub’s official blog boasting a “scientifically significant” study on GitHub Copilot’s effectiveness.

As I was messing about in my NixOS VM, tweaking my little flake experiment, I found myself wondering how I can improve my development experience.

Do you want to set up your machine with NixOS?

I recently got Beltmatic, a minimalist math-themed factory game.

What started as a nerdy interest turned into a hobby now seems like a necessity.

How to properly offer your Compose mobile apps more rendering freedom by enabling edge-to-edge mode, and then how to deal with the gotchas.

Self-updating software is sometimes viewed as a feature, but to me, it’s just annoying.

Backend unit tests tend to be tedious to write, difficult to maintain, and costly to execute, but it doesn’t have to be that way.

I very often praise Kotlin for its powerful and flexible type system, and bash on JavaScript for its lack thereof.