Sometimes I feel overwhelmed trying to manage everything I have to do. Lists work okay if they're short, but grow out of control and fuel new anxieties: am I failing to stay on top of things? Writing a daily agenda lets me get a ton of things done, but burns …

I've had an interest in Zen Buddhism since my college years. Initially this was a rather silly and superficial thing: samurai were cool, and they practiced Zen. I think the first Zen-inspired book I read was The Unfettered Mind: Writings from the Zen Master to the Swordsman. Over the years …

Like many people in the 2020s, I travel a lot. I work in a different city to the one I live in, and spend a few days in one place and a few days in the other. I don't really mind travelling, but it comes with a few inconveniences.

One …

I recently bought a few spiral-bound notebooks from Muji - two for work, and two for personal use. My intention for the personal notebooks was to use them as a destination for inconsequential thoughts, schemes, grocery lists, todo lists, and so on. In digital note-taking software these are often called 'fleeting …

When writing a web service in Rust you may be tempted to do careful research based on your use case, to tailor your code to fit the needs of a typed language with strict memory safety, and to take a pragmatic approach to development. Doing things this way might make …

If you've hung out in Linux enthusiast circles lately, you'll have heard whispers that Arch Linux is no longer hot product. Instead, all the cool kids are using something called NixOS.

Since I bricked my Debian setup in an unfortunate accident involving compiling from source, I decided to give NixOS …

If you just want the VirtualBox VM for this article without the philosophising, skip to the appendix.

We live in a world full of distractions. In the modern "attention economy" it's more of a challenge to avoid content and advertising than it is to find it.

Nowhere is this more …