Was pleasantly surprised to see today that BookFusion supports #epub media overlays (the account requirement on Android is a bit meh, but hey, in a world where support is still rare and few, I'll allow it.) Added to the list: https://smplu.link/2bcuS

No, #KDE 6.6, you will not break my filtered taskbar. You'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands. Shim issued: https://github.com/burninc0de/kde-filtered-taskbar/ #plasma

As an indie-publisher of language learning materials, creating bullet-proof glossaries involves a lot of manual labor and tedious cross-refs. Just built a vocab "linter" or "pre-compiler" so I can get early hints about duplicates, lapsed entries, etc. Real game-changer. #indiepub

Too many brave agents ventured into my TUI and got trapped; forever lost to the void. So I wrote them a warning: https://github.com/burninc0de/helowrite/commit/3e412809c1337905f602825a93baf97744a1ac0b #hicsuntdracones #llm (let's hope they will listen)

Took an old laptop yesterday, set up clean arch install, onboarded #OpenClaw, gave it the keys to the kingdom (passwordless sudo) and told it to go nuts. The result: it hallucinated creating files, downloading pacman packages while disk stayed untouched. "it's so over", lmao

fun little tray app that lets me see at a glance exactly how fast Github Copilot is burning through premium requests: #copilot #llm #kde

"Windows Web Experience Pack" is peak corporate gaslighting. It’s like calling a tapeworm an "Internal Nutritional Management Consultant." Keep B-list celebs and "breaking news" off your system! The solution: powershell(admin) -> winget uninstall "Windows Web Experience Pack"

Compiling vocabulary glossaries for my language books and manually checking them for continuity is always a huge PITA. Currently working on an automated Vocabulary Analyzer that can spot these issues for me (regex for the win). #indiepub #languagelearning

Update: My side-project for shouting into the fragmented hellscape is now my daily driver. Features a mixed feed for Bsky/Mastodon and a noise filter for Masto. X is still there too, though their API treats requests like Leprechaun gold. Read: https://andreklein.net/socialsox/

Running a fully riced, headless Arch on WSL feels like an OS organ transplant Microsoft didn’t authorize. 30ms cold starts and 0% bloat. It’s pure blasphemy, and I’m never going back. 💀🔥 #archlinux #wsl2 #riced

In today's episode of making WSL suck less: stealing the excellent CachyOS fish config, specifically alias ls -> eza to get a bit of color into file listings. Notes here: https://andreklein.net/taming-wsl-into-a-tactical-workbench-for-a-terminal-first-workflow/ #wsl #cachyos

When did it become normalized for people to post tutorials on Medium that hits you with a paywall as soon as you look at it twice? What's so bad about posting on your own blog? #medium #tutorials

Trying to open source a Copilot usage tracker just as Copilot goes down. Guess the AI realized I was tracking its ROI and decided to quit before I could call BS. #copilot #github

After I spent the day yesterday ricing my WSL-workflow (check blog for notes) developing native TUIs on Windows is beginning to feel a LOT more palatable. #wsl

CachyOS taught me to embrace the terminal. I tried to reverse-engineer that workflow on Windows and failed. Until I rediscovered WSL, but optimized for raw speed: https://andreklein.net/taming-wsl-into-a-tactical-workbench-for-a-terminal-first-workflow/ #windows #wsl #terminal

Another little TUI for my CLI-zoo: Github Copilot PRU usage tracker / and a little tray app for handy reference #devtools #copilot

🎉 New relase: SocialSox v03.0.1 with reworked Layout, brand new unified Home Feed (mix Bluesky&Mastodon) and more: https://github.com/burninc0de/socialsox #social #bluesky #mastodon - My favorite feature: filter languages on ALL Masto timelines, not just public ones

Some more context about how I hacked together my own "native tabs"-like VS Code functionality for KDE: https://andreklein.net/vs-code-native-tabs-linux-kde/ #linux #development #kde #plasmoid

Some different uses cases for KDE Filtered Taskbar https://github.com/burninc0de/kde-filtered-taskbar - fast switching between VSCODE projects - "pin" terminal and browser for faster access Alt+TAB? Sure, but this can get messy if you have twenty apps running. #KDE #productivity

🚀 Just open-sourced Filtered Taskbar Widget for KDE Plasma 6! Originally built for native VSCode project tabs, now filter tasks by any app for a distraction-free workflow. Install: https://github.com/burninc0de/kde-filtered-taskbar #KDE #Plasma #OpenSource

After being spoiled by Kitty on CachyOS I dug a bit deeper today into Windows Terminals. - left: WezTerm - right: Tabby - bottom: Alacritty WebGPU and Harfbuzz support on Wezterm is goated. #linux #terminal #windows #wezterm

A bit of polish, streamlined settings and notifications for that sweet terminal writing life: https://github.com/burninc0de/helowrite #writing #tui

me: opens PDF, prints, tries to close the PDF Adobe Acrobat: "Oh no, file is dirty now, would you like to save your changes?" can't make this up ...

A few of you asked about the TUI editor from yesterday. I finished the README, squashed the messy history, and kicked it out the door. Clone, fork, or hack it here: https://github.com/burninc0de/helowrite #tui #writing #python

Some thoughts about the why and how behind my TUI weekend project writing tool, and a shiny new vid: https://andreklein.net/heloscribe-a-terminal-word-processor-built-in-a-weekend/ #writing #tui #terminal

Messing around with Floyd-Steinberg vs Atkinson for 1bit dithering for e-ink picture frame. fascinating stuff. Love that lofi crispness of Atkinson's (img2). The irony: needing @numba_jit just to get 1984 code running at the speed it was designed for in 2026. #eink #lofi

I don't know about the plot of Tron: Ares but it's a nice 1:50h music video for the new Nine Inch Nails album. Also cool to see that the Dillinger grid runs on systemd: #linux #tronares systemd #nin

Tried adding a quick Hebrew note to a PDF. 30 secs job, right? Paste and move on. 1 hr later: 10 AUR packages deep, Okular and MasterPDF reversing Hebrew (because reasons), Xournal and LibreDraw just quietly dying. Linux PDF + RTL = pure suffering #rtl #hebrew #linux

“We used to deliver Christmas on a single php file over FTP” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMoql_RYVBQ #prodwithoutastagingenvironment #webdev

Set up a pristine DietPi config on a brand new Pi -- PiHole, JellyFin, Samba, etc., all dialed in perfectly --only to snap the SD card while jamming it into a custom case. Murphy's Law strikes again. #RaspberryPi #TechFail #DietPiDisaster

"Smurfahontas": A 3-hour nightmare of recycled tropes, zero stakes, and graphics that look like ... spit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQc0KEk9V74 #epicrant #avatar #fireandash

About time! Nobody likes gatekept "access-license-only" content: "Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks" - https://www.kdpcommunity.com/s/article/New-eBook-Download-Options-for-Readers-Coming-in-2026?language=en_US #epub #indiepub

how it started: "let's build a quick masto/bsky/twit crossposter, quick 15 min adventure" how it's going: *builds feature-rich unified social desktop client* #socialsox #buildinpublic

I continue to think LLMs are absurdly powerful for learning, and I'm using them more often for it. The problem is that a lot of people don't have solid metacognitive skills around epistemics and autodidactism. You've got to have a handle on what you know, how you learn, and if you're learning.

My real skill as an author isn't writing, it's taking procrastination to ever newer creative heights, so I almost convince myself it's productive. #writinglife

Currently reading ... #spinaltap #theboss

Interesting talk about desktop UX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZTOjd_bOQ #linux #desktop #ubuntu

Continuing to build out the unified Home Feed that shows merged Bluesky/Mastodon in SocialSox: - exclude languages from your feed - follow/mute/block/boost/reply - slide for mixing Bluesky/Masto items #buildinpublic #bluesky #mastodon

Nice! Anthropic just donated its Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the Linux Foundation. Real open-source infra & agent interoperability just leveled up. https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation #Linux #AI #llm #claude

At this point I'm convinced AWS & Google Cloud console GUIs are deliberately designed as obtuse labyrinths so you’ll inevitably flip the wrong toggle, enable a hidden service, and get quietly nickel-and-dimed to death by micro-requests. #webdev #aws #googlecloud #serverless

Any kind of for-profit marketing messaging feels out of place on Mastodon/Bluesky, and that's a good thing #fediverse #mastodon #bluesky

I think software engineering will be needed as much as ever, but it will probably move to a higher level: less worrying about individual lines of code, more thinking about the overall properties that a system needs to satisfy, and finding ways of specifying those properties precisely.

I love how seo guestpost spammers still lead with: "[dear site owner] The content on your site is amazing and thought-provoking..." Really Jane? Could have at least let some LLM run over some articles to pretend you've actually read anything. Come on, these are low hanging fruit! #seo #spam #webdev

well put

Experimenting with bringing a merged Bluesky/Mastodon feed straight into SocialSox - nice side-bonus: now i can finally filter for certain languages #buildinpublic #mastodon #bluesky

I made a thing sidetrail.app/@isaaccorbre...

Higher education isn’t dying because kids use ChatGPT. It’s dying because we’re still grading like it’s 1895 and pretending Google never happened. https://andreklein.net/ai-isnt-killing-learning-our-standards-were-already-on-life-support/ #education #edchat #edtech #teaching

🚔 PSA: "The Darkside Detective" point-and-click adventure is currently free on Epic. Takes me back to the good old days of Zak McKracken and ManiacMansion. Witty, without being too on the nose. https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-darkside-detective-ios-f97bd7 #pixelart #indiegames

KarpeSlop: "The AI Slop Linter that Andrej Karpathy wishes existed" lol https://github.com/CodeDeficient/KarpeSlop "go forth and purge the slop." 🦸 #slopocalpyse #vibecoding #typescript #react #next

Spotify Wrapped dropping and everyone's flexing their “top 0.05% of Taylor Swift fans” like it’s a Nobel Prize. Just say no to the algo overlords. Slap Jellyfin on a dusty old PC and flex on Big Music forever: https://andreklein.net/make-your-own-spotify-with-blackjack-and-hookers/ #Spotify #music