Today I handed in my work laptop and my badge. A simple, almost anticlimactic act, yet it carried the weight of nearly five years of my life. I still remember my first day clearly — 5th July 2021. I woke up that morning more nervous than excited, which is very on-brand
I’ve always been the type to double-check the door before leaving. Not out of fear exactly, I lived in a fairly secure neighborhood, but out of a need for certainty. There’s a quiet but persistent gap between “it’s probably fine” and actually knowing it is. The area
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I recently went down a rabbit hole trying to fix the one thing that ruins a home media experience: the loading spinner. What started as a simple storage migration turned into a deep dive into NFS protocol versions, kernel tuning, and the intricacies of GPU passthrough in virtualized environments. The
Anyone who reads self-improvement books like The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy or Atomic Habits by James Clear will tell you that the best way to make progress in any area of your life is to track it. Whether it's your fitness goals, daily habits, or finances, what