My personal notebook — a place to save things I learn, break, and fix. Some articles are written from scratch, some are heavily edited with AI, and some are just small code snippets I want to keep handy. A lot of it is here so I remember it next time. Maybe someone else will find it useful too.
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A rofi cheatsheet that doesn't just list your keybindings — it runs them. Live-parsed from the i3 config for the WM; for apps it reads each keymap from wherever the app hides it (Telegram/Zen JSON, Brave over CDP, mpv over IPC) and fires it. Inspired by which-key.nvim.
Building the chat widget, wiring it to OpenRouter with tool calls, then moving from a blocking response to Server-Sent Events — this time owning the backend, not just the frontend.
Why and how I built an MCP server on top of my personal website — so AI assistants can query my projects, experience, and technical work directly.
A Rust + rofi menu that jumps Telegram to any chat, group, channel, contact, forum topic or archived chat — across multiple accounts — from any window on i3. Telegram has no Ctrl+K quick-switcher; this is my fix for it.
A Rust + rofi menu that switches browser tabs, bookmarks, and history from any window on i3 — not just when the browser is focused. It drives Brave over the Chrome DevTools Protocol and hands window-raising to a hook, so one keybind works everywhere.
How I set up a Git-synced Markdown vault that gives AI assistants persistent context about my infrastructure — and works offline.
How to share your keyboard and mouse between two X11 displays using x2x — no KVM switch, no remote desktop, just edge-of-screen cursor sliding.
How I keep my homelab reachable from laptops and one old 32-bit Android phone that also has to be my DPI-bypass VPN device.
A follow-up: my Zig fix for bun create got auto-closed by a bot because Bun had migrated to Rust. I traced what actually happened, re-did the fix in Rust, fought the NixOS toolchain, and ran into the real bottleneck in Bun — not code, but review.
How an old ThinkPad T460s with a dead touchpad became a living-room home server for Telegram bots, music, audiobooks, torrents, NFS storage, and private remote access.
I tried to scaffold a Nuxt 3 project with Bun, found that the docs command was misleading, traced the real bug into Bun's CLI argument forwarding, got a Nuxt docs PR merged, and opened a Bun fix in Zig with help from Claude Code.
I built a Neovim Telescope extension for GitHub Gists: list them, preview with filetype syntax highlighting, open multi-file gists as editable buffers, push changes back on :w, create from visual selections, delete, yank URLs, and keep it fast with a two-layer cache.
A self-hosted Telegram bot that downloads media from 1000+ sites with yt-dlp and sends it straight back — tagged MP3s, inline-playable video, 2 GB uploads, a live progress bar. Plus the war stories: three bugs hiding in code that looked finished, an upload you can't measure, and a cookies.txt that broke the very site it was meant to help.
I rebuilt my Telegram→mpv homeserver hack into a standalone open-source bot: browse the library with inline buttons, stream any link, forward 2 GB Telegram files to the TV — plus the networking war stories (broken IPv6, IP-locked CDNs, an MP4 that deadlocked a pipe) that shaped its architecture.
A homelab on an old ThinkPad T460 with a 217GB Btrfs root ran out of space. The culprit: unbounded Docker logs from a single GitLab container. Here's how I diagnosed it, fixed it, and hardened the setup.
What every glyph in Hermes' TUI status bar actually means (corrected against the source — yes, one of them is not an ETA), how to spot when the agent is about to burn through your nanogpt monthly allowance, and the config knobs that actually move the needle.
I've been contacted 3 times by fake LinkedIn recruiters offering DeFi jobs with inflated salaries. Here's how the scam works and how to spot it.
Interactively browse and launch tmuxinator projects from terminal using fzf
Interactively browse Brave Beta history from terminal using fzf
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