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Engineering, design, infra, and the occasional strong opinion. Long-form, hand-written, zero SEO sludge.

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Linux · KDE · 1 min read

Enabling dead key on Ghostty/KDE

Dead keys stopped working in Ghostty on KDE. A GTK input method regression, fixed with fcitx5 and three env vars.

Apr 29, 2026

AI · Neovim7 min

Local coding with AI: it works… just not on my laptop

Setting up llama.cpp for private offline coding assistance. The setup works. The CPU does not.

Apr 25, 2026

Keyboard · QMK2 min

Flashing the Lily58 R2G with QMK

Accidentally corrupted the firmware on a split keyboard. Here's how to get back to a working Vial layout without losing your mind.

Apr 12, 2026

Linux · Docker5 min

VPN, Docker, and a cold coffee

VPN was connected. Database was unreachable. Coffee was cold. Turns out Docker's default network range was silently colliding with the VPN subnet.

Oct 31, 2025

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Older stuff

KDE · Arch1 min

Get KDE Plasma 6 on Arch

Two methods for upgrading to Plasma 6 via the extra-testing repository — quick or selective.

Feb 29, 2024

Engineering4 min

Managing tech debt

Measure it, schedule time for it, track progress. Three steps that make debt manageable instead of demoralising.

Jan 24, 2024

Arch Linux5 min

Submitting a package to the AUR — full tutorial

Full guide: GPG setup, PKGBUILD creation, git source packaging, and QA before pushing to the AUR.

Nov 24, 2023

Neovim config from scratch

Telescope, Treesitter, lsp-zero, and Catppuccin — a complete from-scratch setup walkthrough.

Oct 24, 2023

Arch Linux3 min

Submitting a package to the AUR

First-time experience publishing dracut-numlock to the AUR — from research to quality checks to submission.

Oct 20, 2023

Add a real tiling window manager in KDE

Set up Bismuth for automatic tiling and dynamic layout switching inside KDE Plasma.

Oct 11, 2023

Add custom touch gestures in KDE

Install touchegg and touché to define your own touchpad gestures for browser nav, desktop switching and more.

Sep 21, 2023

KDE · Linux3 min

Debugging kwin forceblur — SITREP 1

Why blurredwallpaper stopped working after a KDE update — investigating the kwin script lifecycle for newly launched windows.

Aug 24, 2023

React Native1 min

Adding value when you reach the start of a FlatList

Detect scroll-to-top on a horizontal FlatList and prepend data without jumping the user's position.

Jul 18, 2023

React Native1 min

Adding value when you reach the end of a FlatList

Infinite scroll in React Native using onEndReached and onEndReachedThreshold.

Jul 18, 2023

React Native5 min

Horizontal calendar slider in React Native with FlatList

A scrollable weekly calendar with auto-snapping, dynamic month loading, and a "today" button built on FlatList and Luxon.

Jul 3, 2023

Replace Nouveau by Nvidia

Switch from the open-source Nouveau driver to Nvidia's proprietary one on Arch-based systems using nvidia-inst and envycontrol.

Jun 12, 2023

Electron React hot reload & multi launch script

Add hot reload and a single npm command to run both Parcel and Electron concurrently.

Apr 6, 2021

React TypeScript & Electron — the one minute setup

Boilerplate for a desktop app with React, TypeScript and Electron using Parcel as bundler.

Apr 6, 2021

NestJS & Pino — the one minute setup

Swap NestJS's default logger for Pino: pretty-printed in dev, compact in prod.

Jun 11, 2020