Kagu's Corner

In December I was fortunate enough to have a LOT of PTO banked up, and I spent almost all of it on 3 weeks in mainland China and Taiwan.

There have been a few updates to the software I'm running on my personal machines over the last few months that I thought I should cover.

Joan Westenberg wrote a thought-provoking article talking about how they believe that connoisseurship makes one "worse off".

This year, my partner and I hosted a friendsgiving for her friends, and I committed to cooking the turkey and use my mom's lovely cornbread dressing recipe.

Articles Ayjay - Towards Old Man Willow A well put and succint piece that gives an interesting perspective to explain the pattern we have seen in the last decade of tech megacorps basically strong-arming the cultural zeitgeist into discussing only what be…

Earlier this month my partner asked me something along the lines of: "What subconscious behaviors or impulses of yours do you think come from being raised under capitalism?

Haven't posted in a month, it's been a while.

This past month I've been enjoying a lot of new content from across my interests.

My first unique - i.e. not ported over from old writings - blogpost on this little site was on August 13th, 2024.

You browse Linux, productivity, or programming discussions online enough and I feel like you will come across some discussion about why Emacs, vim, or neovim is the best program ever created or something.

Lately I've been noticing myself always seeking novelty.

Consequentialism as a philosophical framework is something that I think I've subconsciously leaned towards before I even learned the name of it in a college ethics class.

I switched this site over to using the Zola SSG around May of this year because when I originally wrote the bulky-ass HTML files that used to be this site, I had a voice in the back of my head swearing that most people with a personal site were not, in fa…

It has been a little over a month since I set out to improve my focus and attention span by setting myself a few rules.

I know how weird this idea sounds.

I haven't really used Reddit in about 2 years, since reddit banned 3rd party apps.

Been browsing powRSS a lot more lately, and it's really helped fill out my RSS reader feed.

My partner and I recently formulated a barometer for analyzing (guessing), how good another relationship is.

My brain is fried.

A few months ago, controversy stirred around one of the core maintainers of Hyprland, the Linux window manager, facing backlash for their political stances.

I've been on vacation recently so haven't put much time into updating the blog but I did recently find some really cool websites that I wanted to share!

I was lucky enough to get Juneteenth off work and felt very motivated to do some work in the garden.

I linked Servers @ Home Wiki a while ago in one of my linkdumps, and it's been really exciting to see it and the related Youtube channel and Discord grow.

So last year I wrote about my cobbled-together proxmox server that I started running and how I installed a Minecraft and the classic arr stack.

This week I've finally started up a new homelab server at my new place!

I was visiting my grandmother and her caretaker around the holidays in 2024, back in my birth country.

So in the spirit of my blog on Consistency I spoke about how I wanted to be more consistent with posting and updating the blog.

I love Minecraft.

Short list so far but hopefully as I get more and more into browsing the web, I will find more links I think others should take a look at.

First post in over 4 months.

With promised tariffs incoming next year a lot of tech enthusiasts in the US have been wondering if we should just be buying new hardware now while we they're not flatly more expensive than they would be after tariffs.

As probably everyone by now knows: Donald Trump has now been elected to his second term as president of the United States, with likely disastrous consequences for minorities, immigrants, and working class people as a whole to come.

I've been fortunate enough to not have experienced too much loss at this stage in my life.

So last time I wrote about my new proxmox server that I started running and how I installed a Minecraft server on it that my girlfriend and I were enjoying playing.

A blogger I follow through their RSS feed at 82Mhz posited a recent question to their readers and fellow bloggers.

This past weekend I was finally able to (re)build my homelab server.

I graduated college into the start of widespread remote work.

You may or may not have read my essay titled 'On Being a Hater - The Loss of Critical Consumption', in which I talked about how I am an advocate for critical consumption and believe people have become too attached to the media they consume to be able to c…

So I am now writing this from a Fedora 40/Windows 10 dual-booted machine using QOwnNotes on the linux partition.

Smaller update today just cause I felt like I should write something light as I'm progressing in my building of the site.

I'm in my late 20's.

Ramblings on the word 'hater' and it's connection to conspicuous consumption I think the word 'hater', at least in colloquial use, has seen a large shift in connotation and a dilution of meaning.

Recently I have been following some more fashion blogs both in my rss reader and on the remaining social media I have.

I can summarize this manga pretty easily: it's an incel self-insert rom-com that is at best frustrating and at worst downright infuriating.

Leave it to Trigger to absolutely fumble a solid world and story elements 60% of the way through the show.

I wrote this way back on Nov 11th, 2020.

I have not read the manga so this review is limited in scope.

This is a rant/essay I wrote back in July of 2021.