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motd: IRC App for Android motd is my latest and greatest vibecoding project where I am learning how to modernly develop software [trigger warning].

LLM Experiments: Recent Slop Projects Skip to the bottom for project list Slop that I generated and have been "orchestrating" for the past 2 months in order to "learn" LLM code generation and "development".

Why I Quit My Job I finally quit my third professional programming job.

Bitcoin Open Source: Contribution Tracker [AI SLOP] I bought one month of an evil-corps LLM model usage and have been "vibe-coding" like the cool kids.

Bitcoin Open Source: My Introductory Contributions It's almost the end of month 3 of the BOSS Challenge and I want to go over my contributions and thoughts on my work.

[BOSS] Bitcoin Core Dev Build with Guix No AI was used to write this post.

Revisting My Previous Thoughts on Crypto Let's just say I've been evangelized as a Bitcoin maximalist.

3D Printing and Open Source I've been dabbling in a bit of DIY project electronics and wanted to design a few enclosures, but didn't want to send out to have something printed or mold injected and then have it not be what I wanted.

Old Functional Programming Email I clicked a dead link to Google Groups recently and landed back at a list of my old groups which happen to be for university classes that I was in.

Advent of Code 2024 - Elisp This year I completed AoC using Emacs Lisp.

Emacs Secrets and use-package After following an article from the author of Mastering Emacs, I was quite pleased with source controlling some encrypted secrets that I use in Emacs regularly, such as my elfeed feeds or IRC password.

Test Post With Link [rss bugfix] A relative link to another post for RSS generation testing.

Professional Bugfixer A semi-satiricle note about professional programming.

Never Miss A Mention With ZNC (note for me cause I will forget this) ZNC allows you to have channel "playback" when you reconnect with your client, but it's easy to lose track of mentions, or not be able to see a mention on an active channel that surpasses

Toggling Fools Using ERC To contradict my last post, I recently decided to replicate my Weechat IRC config in Emacs' ERC.

Tech Complacency This is a short memo about how I have reached complacency with my tech usage, namely with my operating system and editor.

Some Thoughts on the Crypto Industry I've been working closely with numerous cryptocurrencies over the past four years and I cannot get past an observation (maybe limited by my own perception) of the industry and its technology.

Pre-Guix System Install Thoughts Ok, listen.

Learning Guile for Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 Today I finished my entry for the Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024.

RSS/Atom Feed Reader in BASH!

My New SSG and Blog Welcome to my revamped blog that I made with my latest tinker project, poogo.

Distro-Hopping from Arch to Gentoo This past weekend (starting on a Thursday) I decided to scrap my Arch install and install Gentoo.

The Open Source Influencer I've been interested in tech content creation recently and have been trying to guess the future of this modern programming career path.

My Return to a Custom Neovim Config At the end of 2023 I got antsy.

A Late Start in Computer Programming Recently I've been giving advice (sometimes unsolicited) to people who want to shift into computer programming as a career.

Ten Years a Dev Introduction This year will mark my tenth year working as a professional software engineer.

Mentorship The most valuable thing I got out of my first job was that I was being mentored by a senior guy - something I feel like will never come my way again unless someone is willing to mentor a doofus in his thirties with ten years of experience.

The If-Else Programmer I had a half-joke where I would tell people that all I did at a previous job was write if-else statements to fix every problem that came up.