nsg's blog

Hacky Simple Hack

I just wrote a simple, a little hacky Python script, and by "I wrote"... I prompted my AI agent. In short, it's a simple tool that enables me to blog from my phone.

Reflections and Avatars

Note: This post is an experiment where I'm using AI to help craft the text. I'm working in VS Code with an AI agent (Claude Sonnet 4) that has access to my codebase and terminal ou…

Immich Presentation

FUTO the company that supports (funds the development of) the Open Source image management solution Immich held a conference where its creator and a few developers discussed Immich…

I got a TRMNL!

I got a TRMNL! A really cool little device. It's battery-powered e-ink device that you can hang on a wall like a frame/info display, or use the built-in desk stand to have it at yo…

Google Rant and Dark Patterns

Last night I realized that my phone had started to backup 58 GB photos from my phone to Googles servers. I had not requested this. I'm fine to upload some data to Google. I do for …

Uses of AI

Yeah, I agree that there is an AI hype going on. I agree that there is a lot of overlap with the cryptocoin hype. I also wish that people stopped to shoehorn in AI to everything. I…

The pain w/ E-mail

I love distributed and federated systems. E-mail must be the biggest one out there, and it's also one that almost everybody uses. Everybody has an email, right?

Ubuntu 24.04 with autoinstall.yaml

I recently installed the newly released Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on my laptop. Canonical has introduced a revamped installation interface, which is visually appealing. However, I found tha…

Systemd and WireGuard

I'm moving a few servers around and I just realized that systemd-networkd supports WireGuard! This saves me from installing the wireguard tools packages, or any packages for that m…

Holy ZFS Bug!

Almost exactly a year ago I restructured my storage setup. I have always been careful with my files and that's why I moved over to ZFS on my storage server. No rotting bits here! O…