The Tymscar Blog

Ctrl+F is one of those things I use hundreds of times a week, and it has never once understood what I meant.

I wanted to make a blog post like this for a long time, because it’s something that I wish I could find more of myself.

It’s hard for me to explain why, but ever since I can remember I hated sleeping in full darkness.

Fifteen years or so ago I read about this cool thing on Reddit, called Crinkle Crankle walls, which is basically an unusual type of wall made out of bricks that is curvy.

I already had an RTX 4080. 16GB of VRAM.

I have owned somewhere near ten monitors at this point.

I recently got a Ugreen 4800 Plus NAS, and it is basically perfect for what I wanted.

I recently moved from Synology to TrueNAS and set up cloud backups to Backblaze B2.

I do Advent of Code every year.

Imgur decided to block UK users.

During OpenAI’s GPT-5 launch event, they demoed the model’s ability to fix real bugs in production code.

I recently upgraded from a UniFi Dream Machine to a UniFi Dream Router 7 because I’m getting 2.5 Gbps internet in two weeks and figured I’d jump on the WiFi 7 bandwagon while I’m at it.

I run a bunch of internal services through Traefik on my LAN, each with a proper domain name and TLS, so I don’t have to remember ports.

For the past five years, my Yubikey has been my digital companion.

OpenAI recently launched something I didn’t expect to see from them: an open source model called GPT-OSS.

For the longest time I ran every container in my homelab on Proxmox.

Nix is a great tool for building software, especially in professional settings because of the guarantees it comes with.

A bit over a year ago, I bought a pair of Steelseries Arctis Nova Pro headphones.

I’ve always like VR For 15 years, I’ve been captivated by the possibilities of VR/AR.

Do you ever just scroll mindlessly online and stumble upon a satisfying video about physics and you can’t help but have that urge to reproduce it in code?

Reminiscing with some friends about how long the compile times were on Gentoo back in the day when we used it, I got curious about how long it would take to compile Chromium today in WSL2 on an i9 13900KF CPU.

Applying to a job is a broken system This blog post is a call to action, urging reform in the tech recruitment process.

Photogrammetry has held my interest for a very long time.

How I deploy private GitHub projects to local self-hosted servers (CI/CD) I have a lot of experience with massive CI/CD pipelines that deploy private code to public servers.

EDIT: I have raised a PR to fix this upstream and got it merged, so you don’t have to follow the guide anymore, you can just use the package on nixpkgs unstable for the time being and later on in the future, a stable branch.

HackTheMidlands is a 24-hour hackathon, or “creative marathon”, which was founded in 2016.