The 1st Chapter

If you want to find orphan org-roam nodes, i.e. notes without backlinks, there are two quick and practical methods: The first approach is to install org-roam-ui, which will visualise your nodes in a graph and thereby show the ones without any links. The second approach is to use the

Quite often, the concept of downloading music from YouTube gets dismissed as a harmful choice. It's due to the fact that music on YouTube is frequently compressed in a lossy format, thus compromising the song's quality and fidelity. It's especially a problem when many songs are not only compressed by

THIS SHOULD BE DONE AS AN ABSOLUTE A LAST RESORT AWAY FROM PRODUCTION/PUBLIC SERVICES! The LinuxServer.io Nextcloud Docker Container enforces HTTPS by default. It's a completely sane and recommended choice which shouldn't be changed; however, some people want to run Nextcloud on plain HTTP. If you're one of

We have been conditioned to seek novelty. We are no longer interested in the actual subject and its nuance. What matters is solely the concept of novelty. If we elude ourselves with a feeling of discovering something new and exciting, we gratify ourselves with temporary satisfaction. This temporary satisfaction erodes

I used to consider myself a software developer. Technically, I still am; however, I personally don't make it a part of my identity. Instead, it's just an activity/job for me now – I just happen to develop software. The pedantic distinction between being something and doing something causes quite a

Prioritising the longevity of data can sacrifice the authenticity of what it tries to capture and preserve. When I say authenticity, I refer to how accurate and detailed the data in question preserves a particular state. An original raw image, for example, will capture a landscape much more authentically than

To swiftly push local commits to multiple Git remotes, invoke the following command: git remote | parallel git push {} GNU Parallel ought to be installed before attempting such truly sinister black magic.

July 2023 update: Once upon a time, this was a purely HTML-driven blog; however, the new stack still strives for optimal, accessible and portable blog. The blog comprises solely of static pages: there is no form of server-side or client-side execution whatsoever. Pages are treated as documents to be read,

The more tasks I've written down to do, the less I got done in the end. The list ended up an ever-expanding source of pressure and misery, which in turn further diminished the chances of accomplishing the respective tasks. I'm sure many of us have dealt with the same experience.

After an eternity of contemplation, this blog has finally come to life. It aims to be as simple as possible, with a most rudimentary back-end that spites any technological advancement over the past two decades. One can only hope the content will compensate for an otherwise spartan design. It's natural