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  1. GNU Guix and its directories

    October 14th 2025 (week 42 of 2025)

    GNU Guix needs two main directories to run: /gnu/store and /var/guix. By default, they are both mounted on / which can be problematic.

  3. Fat Android filenames

    October 3rd 2025 (week 40 of 2025)

    Not all file names that can be used on Linux can be used on Android. Beware the : and the ..

  5. Typst

    September 22nd 2025 (week 39 of 2025)

    The cover image says it all.

  6. Sixel and viu

    September 16th 2025 (week 38 of 2025)

    Graphics in terminal? That is crazy talk!

  7. Grausame Töchter at Backstage, München

    September 11th 2025 (week 37 of 2025)

    "Grausame Töchter ist nicht nur eine Band. Grausame Töchter ist ein Angriff!" Despite the motto, no Annikas have been harmed at the concert.

  10. btrfs

    August 31st 2025 (week 35 of 2025)

    I recently changed the way I use my disks, and this involved doing things with btrfs.

  11. Karaluchy Spalone Słońcem - A.J.K.S.

    March 25th 2025 (week 13 of 2025)

    Translation of another A.J.K.S. track. This time it is Karaluchy Spalone Słońcem, which means Cockroaches burnt by the Sun.

  12. Traces of two pasts

    March 23rd 2025 (week 12 of 2025)

    A novel by Kazushige Nojima accompanying the Final Fantasy VII Remake games. I like FF7, but I expected the book to be typical video game related novel ie, nothing special. How wrong have I been...

  13. Plateforme

    March 16th 2025 (week 11 of 2025)

    So far, all of Houellebecq's novels I have read follow the same basic plot. Plateforme is not really any different to Les Particules élémentaires, and even in Extension du domaine de la lutte one can see the same pattern—although in a raw, experimental form.

  14. Les Particules élémentaires

    March 4th 2025 (week 10 of 2025)

    "Atomised" is the second novel written by Michel Houellebecq. To me, it shares its theme with Whatever—Houellebecq's first novel—but explores it in more depth and from a different angle.

  17. Structure and aesthetics

    January 21st 2025 (week 4 of 2025)

    Think about the classic Greek epics eg, Illiad or Odyssey: the stories are impressive, but you can also look at the text itself and find that the hexameter itself has a certain kind of beauty.

  18. Iron Head in Piąty Dom

    December 7th 2024 (week 49 of 2024)

    Iron Head is a Polish heavy metal core band. I saw them play at Piąty Dom in Katowice, Poland. While the band was not the headliner for the evening they absolutely stole the show.

  19. To learn OCaml

    October 15th 2024 (week 42 of 2024)

    It was on my radar for the longest time, and I have finally decided to pull the trigger and do it. I am going to learn OCaml.

  21. Chciałbym być taki jak ja - Krzysztof Sokołowski

    October 6th 2024 (week 40 of 2024)

    Translation of "Chciałbym być taki jak ja", which means "I would like to be like me". It is a song written by Krzysztof Sokołowski, best known as the vocalist of the Nocny Kochanek band, for his solo project.

  22. Hylang 1.0.0

    September 23rd 2024 (week 39 of 2024)

    The Hy programming language saw its first stable release yesterday. While not introducing any new semantics, Hy is a great improvement on Python's sometimes atrocious syntax.

  23. Programming and Alchemy

    August 26th 2024 (week 35 of 2024)

    The main idea in Jung's Psychology and Alchemy is that alchemists used alchemical processes as the means of projecting their inner psychological processes onto matter. Is a similar thing happening to computer programmers?

  24. Przychodzą Nocą - A.J.K.S.

    July 12th 2024 (week 28 of 2024)

    Translation of another A.J.K.S. track. This time it is Przychodzą Nocą, which means They Come at Night.

  25. Living in Free Fall

    July 7th 2024 (week 27 of 2024)

    I have recently talked to a friend about the furniture I put in the apartment I rent. It is nothing fancy—almost everything I have lives on IVAR shelves from IKEA.

  26. Spokój - A.J.K.S.

    July 5th 2024 (week 27 of 2024)

    This is another rough translation of a A.J.K.S. track. This time the song is called Spokój which translates as calm or peace, or Ruhe in German.

  27. Radar Bocznego Wybierania - A.J.K.S.

    July 4th 2024 (week 27 of 2024)

    This is a—very—rough translation of the "Radar Bocznego Wybierania" track by Polish death rap artist A.J.K.S. I did for a friend of mine who doesn't speak the language.