Notes
What happened to Pinterest?
There was a time when the site was genuinely unique. If you had an idea, needed inspiration for a project, or wanted to curate a mood board, it was the go-to site. Aside from digging through niche subreddits, there was simply no other space like it. The core value proposition was simple and effective: empowering users to curate ideas, links, and images into structured, personal collections.
Watching the Habs get battered last night reminded me of a few things…
Everything can line up. You can have home-ice advantage, some of the greatest fans in the world, and everything looking perfect on paper. But winning is done on the ice.
Early success and momentum can only carry you so far. Being up 3-1 early in the first period is nice, but you have to sustain that energy. The market—and your opponents—aren’t going to just roll over. They’re making their adjustments. You need to be ready to pivot and act accordingly.
In an interview…
So, what’s your experience with prompt engineering?
Well, I have 2 young boys, and I’m constantly prompting them to do things, and they’ll usually end up doing the complete opposite, or sometimes ignore my request altogether and instead insist on telling me something completely different.
Also, it seems like the more details I give them, the less they seem to remember.
Automating tablet mode detection to trigger an Android UI on a Linux 2-in-1 device.
The Motivation
I bought one of those 2-in-1 laptops a few years ago, an HP Spectre specifically. It came with Windows by default, which was fine until I decided I was on a crusade against using Windows on any of my screens in silent protest of it just being bad.
With the Masters in full swing, pun kind of intended, I got to thinking about a meme I saw a while ago about why you should never hire a golfer.
As all good jokes go, this one is rooted in some truth. Golfers are obsessed and tend to spend every spare minute on the course. But while the meme plays on the negatives, I want to offer a contrary take.
ss44.ca is my professional landing page and digital garden. It’s a place to host my resume, document my homelab, and highlight some technical projects to advertise my skills.
The Motivation
I don’t even know if professional personal websites are still a primary requirement, or if they are a relic of a bygone era. However, I vividly remember career counselors emphasizing: “at least be able to prove you can do some of what you say you can, by having a domain with some of what you say you do on it.”
Sathi.ai is a Generative AI client plugin I built for Dank Material Shell (DMS) . It allows users to interact with multiple Large Language Models (LLMs) directly from their Linux desktop shell, bypassing the need to constantly context-switch into a browser.
The Motivation
Over the last few months, I grew increasingly frustrated with Windows 11 and decided to transition my primary workstations to Arch Linux. During this shift, I discovered Niri (a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor) and fell in love with Dank Material Shell—a clean, slightly opinionated, and highly customizable desktop environment.
I’ve been running my own homelabs now for a better part of a decade but I never really took the time to document / reward / shoutout the tools that I’ve been using regularly.
Part wanting to help ya’ll out, part wanting a time capsule to look back on, I thought I’d put together my current favourite tools.
Media Server - Plex
This is a bit cliché. I haven’t jumped on the jellyfin bandwagon largely because it’s just not as accessible across devices. My current Plex server does everything I need and while I can’t imagine switching or adding Jellyfin would be a pain, I haven’t hit the wall with Plex yet.