One year, same shot
Oct 10, 2026
Almost exactly a year ago I took my first astrophoto that I was ready to share. It was one step beyond usual wide field milky way shots or a moon shot taken with a telephoto lens.
more...I don’t write often, and when I do, it’s about things I find interesting or that genuinely bother me. So this blog mostly ends up with two kinds of posts: technical musings and rants. If you want to skip what doesn’t interest you, use the tags.
Tribute to Galileo
Oct 7, 2026
It's been some time since the last post. Unlike my usual rants of late, this post is about something that happens in the heavens.
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End of a career
Jul 27, 2026
This is a follow-up to the previous post. I started reviewing the code that Claude vibe coded for me. It did not go well.
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If you cannot beat them, join them
Jul 16, 2026
I can't ignore the facts anymore: AI and mindless vibecoders have won. The job I loved doesn't exist anymore.
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Royal astronomer
Jul 14, 2026
It's been less than a year since my first foray into astrophotography, with a DIY tracker, a mirrorless camera, and a vintage Nikkor lens.
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Long-haired stars
Apr 30, 2026
I decided to switch gears from ranting about AI and make another post about astrophotography. Today's word of the day is "comet".
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Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead
Apr 23, 2026
I started using Zed editor about a year ago and it was a delight. Fast, svelte, no nonsense text editor with just enough support for LSPs and debugging that it can be usable as a programmers tool.
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Images of Orion
Apr 8, 2026
And now to something completely different. After almost four months of clouds, I got clear skies. It is time to pull the telescope from the closet.
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Here we go: age verification in Linux
Mar 27, 2026
Brazil, California, Colorado, UK, who's next? A bunch of politicians are passing legislation around the world, requiring operating systems to verify the age of users. Of course, it's all for the betterment of the kids.
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Danning-Kruger as a service
Jan 24, 2026
“Linus Torvalds embraces vibe coding!” “Even Linus Torvalds is trying his hand at vibe coding.” “Linus Torvalds Says AI Codes Better Than Him.” Does that mean that we, as software engineers, are really outdated?
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The one with the final touches
Jan 17, 2026
I'll almost finish the container runtime today. These are things that are not strictly necessary, but they move my toy container runtime closer to the real one just a little bit. One more namespace to add. Make container a zombie killer. Drop capabilities for extra security.
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