Going to spend the next few days in lovely Nesabar (Bulgaria) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesebar Say hi if you're around 👋

I’ve finally found some will to write and decided to resurrect my old tech blog 🎊 Enjoy a deep dive in my new Forgejo setup a.l3x.in/blog/welcome...

"AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making" ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mani... #postroll

Funny how Anthropic initially hyped me into agentic coding while quickly becoming one of the tech companies I now despise the most. Since long I've moved out of Claude Code and into Pi + open weights models, very happy about that choice. Kind of related: raymyers.org/post/zig-cre... #postroll

Yet another great one by @jimtrinca.bsky.social Answering the question: I'd probably not buy if no disk (or equivalent offline storage option). My already purchased disk backlog alone might fill up years of gaming! youtu.be/NiaqF_hGZLU #postroll

The #selfhost fever is still high 🌡️ I want to resurrect my old tech blog, need some nice Markdown editor, heard well about Obsidian BUT don't want to pay for the monthly sub... Result: CouchDB up and running as rootless Podman service, mobile/mac apps synching via github.com/vrtmrz/obsid... 🥰

#Forgejo v16 is out: forgejo.org/2026-07-rele... forge.l3x.in already upgraded, process is sleak: push change to ansible repo (private) -> start apply job -> pull/restart forgejo image/container -> done. It works like a charm, the runner's job survives the forgejo process restart ⭐️🌈🕺 #selfhost

Had some fun with #Deno, #IRC and #Chatto today: forge.l3x.in/alex/irc-gre... Just a very simple bot to get notified in Chatto when a new user joins our IRC channel. Made me remind the good ol’ days 🤓

If I hadn't already enough reason for abandoning GitHub, today I learn that you need IPv4 to e.g. download artifacts there. #til

Annoyed by the buzz around Bun, I decided to move into #Deno and so far I'm pretty happy about that decision. It's such a better interpreter than Bash, lovely that it comes with batteries included too 🔋 WIP: rewriting all non-trivial shell scripts in Typescript for clarity/maintainability/sanity.

Work in progress: make my #atproto PDS (atproto.com/guides/self-...) the source DB for all things social. Done: - website's profile pic - website's homepage microblog entries roll - website's /postroll and /til pages ToDo: - Gravatar picture #selfhost

Revamping my automated backups strategy, dropping custom scripts and AWS S3 in favor of: - restic.net - www.impossiblecloud.com/s3-storage #hostedinEU

I'm a simple person: I like Postgres, I use Neon (happily), I share this: postgresisenough.dev

Since I have Podman + Forgejo + actions runner everything is a nail to hammer. Here's a new repo to make sure I won't lose track of my Terraform S3 backend bucket: forge.l3x.in/alex/terrafo... The cool bit is that after bootstrap it authenticates to AWS via OIDC so no more tokens needed 🎊

New Pi extension with companion web app viewer to share sessions with Opengist (instead of the Pi'default GitHub Gist): - www.npmjs.com/package/@ale... - gistviewer.l3x.in #pi-coding-agent #opengist

Wrapping up self hosting projects: - forge.l3x.in : works like a charm, CI/CD and all, with github.com/shaftoe/pi-c... integrating natively - gist.l3x.in: does the job, proposing a patch to automate user creation (github.com/thomiceli/op...) - social.l3x.in: PDS sourced by this very feed #yakshave

Hello ATproto 👋 I'm migrating microblogging away from my Mastodon account, it served me well for the last years but self hosted PDS seems to be a better fit for my digital needs. This very feed just became the new SoA for some of a.l3x.in content (/postroll and /til). Say hi if you're on Bluesky!

How to burst the AI bubble https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/how-to-burst-the-ai-bubble-strike-at-its-roots/ #postroll https://fosstodon.org/@alex/116815001798130682

Finally a proper explanation of the AI economics https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies #postroll https://fosstodon.org/@alex/116743262930772205

The Dead Economy Theory https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory #postroll https://fosstodon.org/@alex/116685337483341712

Will spend the weekend in lovely Braşov 🇷🇴 Say hi if you're around 👋 https://fosstodon.org/@alex/116662376367029687

Attending Cloud Native Days Romania today 18th and tomorrow 19th of May. Say hi if you're joining https://cloudnativedays.ro/ https://fosstodon.org/@alex/116594130422086648

@daz It's idiotic and already firing back but happens probably because 1. managers don't understand the technology and 2. managers are thrilled to fire employees and show big $ savings to their bosses https://fosstodon.org/@alex/116567744075486465

Back in Bucharest 🇷🇴 Say hi if you're around https://fosstodon.org/@alex/116547651753235351

Agents need control flow, not more prompts https://bsuh.bearblog.dev/agents-need-control-flow/ #postroll https://fosstodon.org/@alex/116539618263207191

Ghost of Yotei Legends got to be one of the most underrated DLCs ever. https://fosstodon.org/@alex/116499732459571225

I Left Port 22 Open on the Internet for 54 Days. Here's Who Showed Up. https://arman-bd.hashnode.dev/i-left-port-22-open-on-the-internet-for-54-days-here-s-who-showed-up #postroll https://fosstodon.org/@alex/116471451689523990

I wasn't satisfied with the quality of available "Awesome Lists" for Pi coding agent (https://pi.dev) so I started to work on my own: https://awesome-pi.site/ Contributions welcome! https://fosstodon.org/@alex/116445929863233759

@carpetbomberz @igb @jay I know nothing about Clojure and even less about writing code for the JVM, that said if I'll ever had or want to, I'd most probably start from Clojure. They got my attention. https://fosstodon.org/@alex/116422890470138145

Pluralistic: A Pascal's Wager for AI Doomers https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/16/pascals-wager/#doomer-challenge #postroll https://fosstodon.org/@alex/116422667205055022

Today I learn Clojure root is... music production 🤯 https://youtu.be/Y24vK_QDLFg #postroll #til https://fosstodon.org/@alex/116421372622814926

Today I learn that the IndieWeb can be very addictive https://github.com/shaftoe/personal-website/issues/287 #til https://fosstodon.org/@alex/116421141123281762

Celebrating the good news for 🇪🇺🇭🇺 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/13/now-im-hopeful-hungarians-welcome-the-morning-after-16-years-of-orban-rule #postroll https://fosstodon.org/@alex/116404048882940624

AI chatbots and trust https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/ai-chatbots-and-trust.html #postroll https://fosstodon.org/@alex/116397990767752652

I decided to try out https://pi.dev/ and I missed the GitHub integration from OpenCode so here we go: https://github.com/shaftoe/pi-coding-agent-action https://fosstodon.org/@alex/116274373881354693

Usually I get lost half way through episodes but I really enjoyed all of the last one from PBS Space Time https://youtu.be/c-Q5r3THR3M https://fosstodon.org/@alex/115703168058356099

Agents are lazy, mine quickly learnt how to add `//nolint` whenever fixing the problem gets tough. Relatable, but I pay you for NOT being lazy 💸 https://fosstodon.org/@alex/115549519611252973

I have to thank Instagram dearly for finally adding annoying adds and thus putting an end to my unfrequent but hard to die doomscrolling. Nothing could have been more effective 🥰 https://fosstodon.org/@alex/113953871678076712

https://www.mixcloud.com/bakari-music/techno-diva/ https://fosstodon.org/@alex/113307371618612361

> This is a fantastic project mapping the global surveillance industry https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/08/surveillance-watch.html https://fosstodon.org/@alex/113022249508409511

https://www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/2017/11/12/why-the-culture-wins-an-appreciation-of-iain-m-banks/ https://fosstodon.org/@alex/111275893675432640

We just released the beta of the new Windows desktop client 🥳 https://platoteam.medium.com/plato-for-windows-beta-49b5d85c9e60 https://fosstodon.org/@alex/111176363535898739

Take a tour through the James Webb Space Telescope images https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-14/james-webb-telescope-first-images-details-breakdown/101231818 https://fosstodon.org/@alex/108673694995639900

This made my nerdy day https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/07/dns-esoterica-why-you-cant-dig-switzerland/ https://fosstodon.org/@alex/108657350099493472

This is so beautifully geeky it's impossible not to share https://musicforprogramming.net/ https://fosstodon.org/@alex/108621724015171625

"But when you remove the insanity and the scams, what's left?". Nailed it 🎯 https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/06/on-the-dangers-of-cryptocurrencies-and-the-uselessness-of-blockchain.html https://fosstodon.org/@alex/108565531350105773

"It is insane to me that cryptocurrencies are still a thing" https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/04/clever-cryptocurrency-theft.html https://fosstodon.org/@alex/108165532677381863

Brilliant https://xkcd.com/2608/ https://fosstodon.org/@alex/108155671341579443

Best essay I've read in a while http://paulgraham.com/heresy.html https://fosstodon.org/@alex/108153054029651634