Peter Demin

Reading about radicle made me repeatedly question its purpose.

Added My Radicle Journey

Here is a metaphor for how big tech companies operate that comes to mind over and over and seems to apply to many situations.

For years I had these lines in my ~/.vimrc: set background=dark " set background=light I would go and move the comment to the other line whenever I needed to switch to another mode.

cpg314/ltapiserv-rs - Server implementation of the LanguageTool API for offline grammar and spell checking, based on nlprule and symspell.

susam/mintotp - Minimal TOTP generator in 20 lines of Python

This looks like a trend, and I don't know how I feel about it: HN post "Ask HN: Share your personal website" got 947 points and 2382 comments.

Exploring Radicle landed me on Swarm.

anthropics/original_performance_takehome - Anthropic's original performance take-home, now open for you to try!

SeanHeelan/anamnesis-release - Automatic Exploit Generation with LLMs

I'm gonna explore this old-school Hacker Webring that I discovered through Morten Linderud that was linked on Lobsters that doesn't require an introduction, but somehow evaded my attention for fourteen years.

Something up my alley: SelfCI - a minimalistic local-first Unix-philosophy-abiding CI.

markqvist/Reticulum - The cryptography-based networking stack for building unstoppable networks with LoRa, Packet Radio, WiFi and everything in between.

Added a Mastodon account to join Lurk.org community following a link from permacomputing@conference.macaw.me XMPP channel.

I got into this trap twice, so I guess I might not be alone.

bugsink/bugsink - Self-hosted Error Tracking

I've been using Sentry for almost all of my career, but yesterday I received an email about Sentry asking for write permissions to my repos to create pull requests made by an LLM.

Added Install Bugsink on Google Cloud Platform

hnpwd/hnpwd - HN personal website directory and OPML

I got curious if smartphone notifications can be possibly implemented in a privacy-preserving fashion (and to what extent).

It's been almost eleven years since the creation of "PEP 492 – Coroutines with async and await syntax" by Yury Selivanov.

Added Solarized colors for Shibuya theme

Added My GitHub stars

scottrogowski/code2flow - Pretty good call graphs for dynamic languages

Going through my old GitHub stars, I rediscovered Shibuya theme, courtesy of Hsiaoming Yang.

Here's some food for thought.

Mildly interesting idea: use GitHub CLI to export repos I starred and inject this information into my public journal. gh api --paginate users/peterdemin/starred --header 'Accept: application/vnd.github.star+json' | jq . > gh-stars.json

Added Personal cloud VM on Google Cloud Platform free tier

After watching Mr.

Updated My RSS feed reader setup with the new subscriptions: Andrew Nesbitt Maurycy's blog Nathan Barry Peter Demin (that's me!)

I got bored enough to add an RSS feed to this journal.

On the third day of Christmas I managed to migrate from Virtualbox to libvirt.

I'm continuing my exodus from greedy (also free and privacy-preserving) Google infrastructure for my personal files.

cockpit-project/cockpit-machines - Cockpit UI for virtual machines

Inspired by Clan and other Nix stories, I attempted to migrate my silly Vagrant+VirtualBox home setup to Terraform+KVM.

dmacvicar/terraform-provider-libvirt - Terraform provider to provision infrastructure with Linux's KVM using libvirt

sailing the sea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?

While reading "Material World" by Ed Conway, I many times thought about Oxygen Not Included, which is a cartoonistic survival game about a settlement deep underground.

TIL about automatic Postgres configuration and Servury's promo on anonymity vs privacy both of which may be applied to Seattle-Beauty-Lounge.

piercefreeman/autopg - 🐘 Auto-optimizations for Postgres

simulot/immich-go - An alternative to the immich-CLI command that doesn't depend on nodejs installation.

this comment left me bitter and confused: Well it took me 2 full-time weeks to properly implement a RAG-based system so that it found actually relevant data and did not hallucinate.

For years my life felt like a crazy race at break neck speeds, with great aspirations, challenges, achievements.

opencloud-eu/opencloud - 🌤️ OpenCloud is the open source platform for file management, sharing and collaboration.

Added "Cyberiad" by Stanislaw Lem My next book is going to be "Material World" by Ed Conway, refered by Mert Bulan.

something more amazing than $0.99 bananas?

Added To be replaced by AI is a choice

allinurl/goaccess - GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.

there’s something inconceivable about same-day delivery for a bunch of bananas for $0.99 with no delivery fee.

nathan-barry/nathan.rs - My personal site using Hugo for static site generation.