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Thoughts on "Poor Charlie's Almanac"
https://major.io/p/poor-charlies-almanac/
Published: January 7, 2026 00:00
I recently finished reading Poor Charlie’s Almanac, a collection of speeches and writings from Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s long-time business partner at Berkshire Hathaway. Munger passed away in November 2023 at the age of 99, just weeks before his…
Blank lock screen in Hyprland
https://major.io/p/blank-lock-screen-hyprland/
Published: December 18, 2025 00:00
I moved over to Hyprland as my primary desktop environment several months ago after wrestling with some other Wayland desktop environments. It does plenty of things well and finally allowed me to do screen sharing during meetings without much hassle. A…
Becomingly differently social
https://major.io/p/differently-social/
Published: December 17, 2025 00:00
Social media caught my attention in early 2008. A coworker finally convinced me to create a Twitter account and I had no idea what it was. Over the years, I found various types of social media useful for different purposes. Learning. Connecting. Sharing.…
Fun with docling
Published: September 26, 2025 00:00
My team at work does lots of work with retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, and parsing documents is really painful. It’s so painful that I recently delivered a talk on this very topic at DevConf.US 2025! Another one of the talks at DevConf.US this year…
Getting podman quadlets talking to each other
Published: September 25, 2025 00:00
Quadlets are a handy way to manage containers using systemd unit files. Containers running via quadlets have access to the external network by default, but they don’t automatically communicate with each other like they do in a docker-compose setup. Adding…
Monitor system and GPU performance with Performance Co-Pilot
/p/performance-copilot-fedora-gpu/
Published: September 23, 2025 00:00
I’ve used so many performance monitoring tools and systems over the years. When you need to know information right now, tools like btop and glances are great for quick overviews. Historical data is fairly easy to pick through with sysstat. However, when…
Summarize YouTube videos with Fabric
/p/summarize-youtube-videos-fabric/
Published: September 22, 2025 00:00
I watch plenty of YouTube videos with instructional content. Some are related to my work while many others involve my hobbies, such as ham radio and financial markets. Lots of them have really useful information in them, but I struggle with taking notes…
RAG talk recap from DevConf.US 2025
Published: September 20, 2025 00:00
Hello from DevConf.US in Boston, Massachusetts! I presented yesterday about the challenges of developing systems for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with large language models (LLMs). If you’ve been reading tech blogs lately, or the r/rag subreddit,…
Automatic container updates with Podman quadlets
/p/podman-quadlet-automatic-updates/
Published: September 19, 2025 00:00
Running containers at home or in production often means juggling updates across multiple services. While orchestration platforms like Kubernetes handle this automatically, what about those simple deployments on a single host? Podman’s quadlet system…
Date driven development
Published: August 24, 2025 00:00
Scrum, kanban, and waterfall seem familiar to most of us who work in software development, but date driven development is a complicated beast. These are situations where something must be completed by a certain date that cannot be moved. For some teams,…