Scriptables: a GUI for Linux Ubuntu ServersI'm a busy guy; I'm always working on ten million things, and I have a busy family life too. Thus, the time I have to work on side hustle stuff is little to none. Twenty years ago, I had all the time Oct 10, 2026·5 min read
Workhorse AI models you probably ignoredWhile the whole YouTube influencer space goes crazy about Gemini 3, I’m not so impressed. Don’t get me wrong, Gemini models are fantastic! And the V3 iteration is undoubtedly cool and capable. I’ve briefly run some tests (not benchmarks but actual re...Nov 20, 2025·4 min read
~Zod and React Hook FormI’m learning Next.js; I know React or kinda know React since I started building React apps in 2018 or thereabout, and then stopped using it for several years. Shew! A lot has changed: Server actions, Zod, and just the whole ecosystem generally. This ...Aug 30, 2025·7 min read
Hitchhiker's guide to AI for beginnersThis will be more of an FAQ-style article, which is divergent from my regular content, but I wanted to write a guide for non-technical people or people unfamiliar with AI. You hear all these buzzwordsAug 25, 2025·12 min read
Engineering 101: Understanding bits and bytesIn my early years, when my age was still single digits, I was tearing apart electrical things like there’s no tomorrow. I was trying to understand how they tick. How do they work? Where do sounds and pictures come from on TV? What happens when this V...May 18, 2025·27 min read
Build a basic login system using DjangoMany know and love Django admin (myself included). The problem is that it can be somewhat rigid, and well, let's be honest looks like it’s from 2010. Nevertheless, in Django, it’s stupidly simple to implement your own auth by extending the framework’...Apr 14, 2025·11 min read
Demystifying the dark arts of AI Agents 🤖Everyone is talking about AI agents; how great they are, and how they'll replace developers. Both hold some truth, but there's no need for concern. I am not an AI expert, but for the last few years, I have worked with almost every model that exists f...Feb 10, 2025·14 min read
