My personal projects have poor developer experience. Any time I want to fix a bug or improve a service, I experience a lot of frustration.

For example, I wanted to upgrade the UI of my pomodoro script to have colors for completed and cancelled tasks, better prompts and mark the …

I installed guix with:

# Install nscd (name service cache daemon) to help pick up guix libs
sudo apt install nscd
sudo systemctl enable nscd

# install guix
# Ref: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html
cd /tmp
wget https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/plain/etc …

I installed stack_static by downloading the binary from github and moving it to .local/bin. I was able to compile haskell programs, but running them failed with the error:

$ stack run
/home/rookie/projects/random/helloworld/.stack-work/install/x86_64-linux-tinfo6/48795ad824c5ab2c527b42cc08a43bf5cd587c042c536072710c2302b997bb41/9.2.5/bin …

Postgres was the database for my comic site but I chose to migrate to sqlite because it would:

• be easier to back up
• use less resources on my server
• be one less service to manage

I also don't get a lot of traffic so it wouldn't have an impact.

The …

I complain and anger myself a lot. I'll have an internal dialogue that loops over the same points, making me feel worse and worse. I'll sometimes write down why I'm so angry or anxious, and find out my thoughts aren't as important as I wanted to believe.

This is Chatter …

Code reviews improve the health of a system while spreading ownership of code and knowledge. A good review process is fast and we can handle low hanging fruits by automating trivial checks (e.g. running unit tests, style choices) and choosing style guidelines. We can have high level discussions on …

I get and send bad questions. To avoid this, I write my questions in my editor, review and then copy them to the platform e.g. slack, email. My questions are better, which makes me wonder if there are other changes that could further improve my questions.

A lot of …

I like firefox, and I've tweaked it to be ideal for me. The extensions I have are:

• Dark reader: I prefer dark themes, so this applies one to websites. This works great except for my bank's website, which I've excluded in the plugin.

• Tridactyl: provides vim keybindings. It's intuitive and …

I'd need to set up ubuntu, but I didn't want to lose my home directory. Everything was in one partition, so I'd lose my home folder with a re-install. I didn't want this, so I moved it into another partition.

The new partition would be the size of my home …