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Creating a Landing Page and why LLMs Wont Take Our Jobs Any Time Soon
When I was a teenager, I was often in charge of using the family camera to photograph birthdays and other get-togethers. Over the years, I became more and more interested in photography, and it turned into a hobby that I love. Last summer, I bought an expensive camera since the one I inherited from my grandfather was starting to show its age (a... Read more 27 Mar 2025 - 5 minute read
Building a Proper Home Server
Ever since I was a teenager, I’ve wanted a home server. Not because I needed to host specific software or had concrete plans for it, but mainly because I saw people on YouTube who had them, and I thought it looked cool. Flash forward a couple of years, and I’m visiting my parents. They pull out an old hard drive enclosure so we can watch some o... Read more 29 Jan 2025 - 5 minute read
Installing Zellij on Fedora
This guide outlines the process of installing Zellij, a Rust-based terminal workspace and multiplexer, on Fedora Linux. While Zellij can typically be installed using Cargo, the Rust package manager, I encountered compilation issues on a fresh Fedora installation. Finding limited documentation for resolving this, I’ve compiled this step-by-step g... Read more 10 Dec 2024 - 1 minute read
Smartifying Dumb Speakers
The goal of this project is to make an old speaker function as a smart speaker. I want to select a speaker on Spotify, and then have some of my old speakers from the 80’s play that music. I already did something like this in my Smarthome Saga Part 1 blog post. The issue with that setup is that every set of speakers need to be listed as a single ... Read more 27 Apr 2024 - 9 minute read
Smarthome Saga Part 1 - Getting Started
Since I first got my own place I’ve wanted to get a “smarthome”. My journey started out with buying an Ikea Trådfri bulb and hub, so that I could have cool RGB lights in my one-bedroom apartment. That was also around the time I first got into Linux and Python. My first foray into interacting with my smarthome outside the scope of the Ikea smarth... Read more 18 Mar 2024 - 7 minute read