Timmy Douglas's blog

I was thinking about doing another status update for my in-progress Linux distro, but instead I thought I’d do a post on another Linux distro.

I’ve been making some progress on my Linux distro that I’ve been working on for about two months at this point.

With AI agents being able to write code faster than we can type, writing code is no longer the long pole in software development.

With AI agents being able to write code faster than we can type, writing code is no longer the long pole in software development.

A couple of weeks ago, around the time of the (first) Claude Fable launch, I upgraded my Claude subscription to the 20x Max one.

Today the Ladybird Browser project announced changes to how they’re developing Ladybird.

Yesterday, I watched a youtube video with Scott Hanselman and Mark Russinovich talking about taste.

I recently started trying to shoot video on my Nikon Z8.

A couple of months ago, I started shooting some of my kids soccer games on my Nikon D700 with a 300mm Nikon ED AF 1:4 lens.

A couple of months ago, I stumbled upon some youtube videos praising the new commodore 64 ultimate.

I’ve noticed myself more and more recently using less libraries and frameworks.

In my last post, I talked about using Claude Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.3 to create a TUI Rust email client.

There have been some recent artcles in the news about the “SaaSpocalypse”–the devaluation of software as a service companies like SAP and Salesforce.

I’m lucky to have started investing fairly soon after finishing college.

Today I was thinking about some of the posts I made previously on bemoaning the web browser as becoming the ubiquitous user interface.

A couple of months ago I read the books, “The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness” and “The Art of Spending Money: Simple Choices for a Richer Life” by Morgan Housel.

I recently wanted to do a better job sandboxing my AI agent work, so I created an unprivileged user on my machine with their own home and source directories to code.

I’m looking back at some of my posts in 2025 and seeing that there is probably more AI-related stuff than I would like.

As AI agents become more competent at writing code, the less babysitting they’ll need.

While I’m still running GNU Guix as the OS of choice for my personal computer, my patience is wearing thin when it comes to it’s all-or-nothing approach when it comes to running software.

Yesterday, I was doing an Alpine dist upgrade (3.18 to 3.19) to my mail server, which apparently I thought was such a routine job that I didn’t have any backups.

In a podcast I listened to yesterday, Brian Eno describes the how social media is causing the collapse of democracy.

I wrote a blog post a little over two years ago about another text editor I started writing in common lisp.

I finally jumped on the bandwagon of people that are paying for an AI subscription.

My last post was bemoaning the loss traditional websites in favor of AI assistants.

I couple of posts ago I talked about the end of the open web–basically how it’s difficult for small players to provide a free-tier web service to the public due to all the bots and abuse traffic.

I recently finished reading “Digital Minimalism” by Cal Newport.

I was recently watching an interview of Tim Sweeney by Lex Fridman where Lex asked Tim about the future of games.

I just finished reading the book “Deep Work” by Cal Newport.

Drew DeVault posted a new blog post titled Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face.

For someone looking for an intro to LLMs in 2025, this video is a pretty good introduction.

A was recently inspired by a talk at emacsconf 2024 about guile-emacs.

When I think about how I use a computer these days, there are only a handful of user interface technologies.

I recently replaced my GNU Guix-based router with Alpine Linux.

I was watching an interview with Ezra Klein and Jon Stewart yesterday, and Jon Stewart made an interesting comment about someone being cancelled for a moral lapse of judgement.

Not Just Bikes (on YouTube, on Nebula) just released a new video about self-driving cars and how they will destroy cities.

A couple of weeks ago I read a new book called: “A Mathematician’s Lament: How school cheats us out of our most fascinating and imaginative art form.”

I thought read a comment on Hacker News a while back that said something like “Macros are why Common Lisp failed to attain mass adoption as a general purpose programming language.”

There is a nice website at https://go-proverbs.github.io, which introduces Go Proverbs.

Continuing my trend of ebike related blogging (I’m hoping for a future world with more transportation infrastructure enabling bike-based travel), I came across some Youtube videos featuring bikes with Pinion’s Motor.Gearbox.Unit (MGU).

I recently purchased and took delivery of a cargo ebike.

I believe one of the unfortunate things that happened in the computer world is the prevalence of HTML email.

Here’s a recipe that I believe our family has been using as long as I have lived.

I was reading a nice blog post yesterday about passkeys.

Last weekend was our kid’s spring break and we travelled to Nashville for the week.

I’m trying to write something every month but I’m having trouble coming up with original ideas for these journal posts.

OpenAI revealed Sora, a text-to-video model about a week ago.

CGI (Common Gateway Interface) was one of the first methods for serving dynamic content from web servers.

I got my wife a Meta Quest 3 for Chirstmas last year and I thought I’d write up some quick thoughts about it.

I have wanted to learn Hare since it was announced and took the opportunity to write my first program yesterday.