Luke Hsiao's blog

TL;DR: ensure you get app access when buying a used Tesla Do NOT purchase a used Tesla from a third party unless you can verify that you can transfer vehicle ownership to your Tesla account (often called “app access”).

Background If you haven’t noticed, AI and the datacenter build-out have taken a real toll on personal computing.

I occasionally have the need to create a recurring calendar event on a cadence that isn’t natively supported by Google Calendar.

I just found a brilliantly easy quality-of-life improvement I needed to share: display-switch.

One of the nice things about working in a smaller business is you can enjoy using things that don’t need to scale to extreme sizes.

In a normal Omarchy installation, the expected behavior is that you will see two new boot options in your BIOS: Omarchy and Limine.

In the context of companies, cultural idiosyncrasies are fascinating to me.

2026 is the year I return to some rigorous planning and productivity habits I’ve let slip over the years.

As an engineer, I’m always refining which tools are in my toolbox.

It’s been several years since I went through all the trouble of setting up my own GPG keys and securing them in YubiKeys following drduh’s guide.

What is jj?

Those who know me know that I invest in interfaces.

It’s the thought that counts I recently read a great blog post from Alex Martsinovich.

The problem Before I switched to Omarchy, I was running omakase-blue on one NVME drive, and Windows on another.

Inspired by Michael Bommarito’s post, I’m just dropping some quick notes on getting Berkeley Mono Variable (TX-02) to work in Ghostty.

I am the youngest child in my family.

I currently use UTOPIA for my fiber connection.

I’m a big fan of Atkinson Hyperlegible Next and Berkeley Mono (TX-02).

I have been using a self-refurbished Thinkpad X230 for a while as a personal machine.

I’m a big fan of the idea of “steel man” argument.