Imran's Blog

I worked some retail job when the iPhone 3g came out.

This week I had the pleasure of attending Software Should Work (2026), henceforth SSW.

Slop has infested every corner of my job.

During my weekend grocery run, someone asked me to help them.

The recent places I have lived have all had these kinda cool kitchen faucets, where the tap part extends with a cord/pipe.

There's a lot I don't like about LLMs: The ethics of how they are trained, and how the training material is sourced.

I bought a new laptop, the GPD Pocket 4.

New episode of South park aired this week called "Twisted Christian".

I made a thing.

I use neomutt (with mbsync) to access my email accounts.

There's this annoying default behaviour in KDE where if you have a multi-monitor setup, your notifications will show up on the "wrong" monitor.

I decided to rework my dad's site again.

This is a rant.

I thought I should do a recap for this year.

These past weeks I have been learning to touch type Dvorak.

Did this earlier this week and thought I would share.

Today had nice weather.

It's no secret that I despise ads.

I use a thinkpad flex 14 AMD laptop hooked up to my TV so that I can work in my living room.

Incredibly simple trick to figure out how lazy the programmers behind a company are, just view the transactional emails sent by said company as text instead of html.

I am on a transatlantic flight from Europe to Canada.

I have always wanted to go to Italy, namely for the food and the coffee.

Damn it has been a long time since I have posted anything on my blog.

Well it's been a sold three months since my last blog entry.

Not too long ago, I had written about how I exposed my ssh port onto the internet (for use by my dad).

As the title suggests, I have a Unifi AP AC-lite that I use to serve wireless in my home, paired with an EdgeRouter PoE.

I use neovim as my main driver for all my coding and text editing needs.

My previous post was about how I setup a SFTP server for my dad.

My dad has a site that he has been working on since the windows 3.1 days.

The province that I am in lifted covid restrictions for the gym.

For the first time in my life I have gotten vertigo.

In one of my previous roles I had to use Django Rest Framework (drf) to make APIs and I enjoyed it.

It has been an interesting year (or two).

Like most nerds I have a home server that I use to serve media (via Plex) and maybe host some personal projects. # History I built the first version of my server (I think) about 8ish years ago.

Last week James Hoffman came out with a video about how to make a tasty donut flavoured espresso drink.

This is going to be my first time shucking hard drives.

The title of this post should be "Shut up about python and multi-line lambdas".

I used to hate coffee.

A while ago I wrote about ads showing up on my TV player, which annoyed me.

I upgraded to linux 5.10 and noticed that LightDM would fail to start consistently.

I saw Dhall mentioned on a job posting for NoRedInk.

I am a huge fan of dumb TV's made smart via a TV player, something along the likes of an apple TV or a Roku.

This weekend I spent some time migrating my music off Google Play Music to Spotify.

I decided to move my blog to Zola instead of Docusaurus.

Replacing one of my shell scripts with a compiled binary using rust.

How I improved my work from home setup using a proxy auto-config (PAC) file.

I wanted to use Docusaurus to setup my blog because I might be using it for work and wanted to test it out.