Stop Being an NPC

I recently wrote a short essay called Linux Asceticism, and it got a lot of attention on platforms like Hacker News and Reddit. I also received an email from Brodie Robertson, telling me that he would soon release a video on his main channel about my essay. He also invited me to be a guest on his Tech Over Tea podcast series. It really surprised...

I’ve been using NixOS for about six months and am generally satisfied with my experience. However, in this essay, I won’t talk about how great NixOS is, but rather about one common issue that many users, including myself, have faced or will face in the future. In NixOS, most pre-compiled programs will not work out of the box. In this essay, I’ll...

Most well-known living philosophies -such as Cynicism, Epicureanism, Stoicism, Buddhism, and Sufism- advocate some form of Asceticism. This could involve various acts such as fasting, deliberately confronting personal fears, or even something as subtle as choosing not to pour salt on food. But regardless of the specific way that these practices...

When you interact with a text file using an editor, what you see doesn’t necessarily reflect the data stored in the file. Sure, the contents of plain text files are byte codes encoded in formats like ASCII, UTF8, or UTF16, and these byte codes are the ultimate source of truth. But in the end, it’s still your text editor that chooses how to...

Up until now, I was not aware that concurrency and parallelism were actually different things since they are often used interchangeably by some. I just learned that this is not the case while reading Chapter 9 of the book “Clojure for the Brave and True.” This made me want to learn more about concepts related to concurrency and parallelism,...