A collection of shorter thoughts, quick updates, and things I’ve learned that don’t warrant a full blog post.
TIL: Customizing the KOReader home page
A thousand thanks to Yash who will now be the only reason I really use KOReader
Notes
Short thoughts and quick updates
TIL: Sending emails from my DuckDuckGo email alias
Slightly regretting using one of these for a credit card 😬
TIL: Easily sending eBooks to a Kobo
send.djazz.se is a godsend (no pun intended)
Android Gradle Plugin 9.0.0 upgrade notes
Some tips to ease the Android Gradle Plugin 9.0.0 upgrade
Collating entries in my Obsidian journal for week notes
Quick how-to of setting up my Obsidian journal to create a gist of noteworthy events through the week
TIL: Bypassing aliases in a Bash script
Quick syntactic solution for ensuring aliases don’t mess up scripts
Migrating a Postgres database between servers
A quick rundown of the process so future me can have an easier time
GPT-5 seems to forget things well within its context window
An instance of LLMs seemingly not being able to utilize their context window effectively
Copying Nix Flake inputs to a different machine
Simple one-liner to avoid re-downloading inputs on a different machine on your LAN
Changing the locale set on a maching running Postgres
I keep rediscovering that Postgres uses the system locale and timezone database, despite having read other people’s woes. I changed the locale in my NixOS configuration from en_US to en_GB to appease the spell checker on my desktop. When I deployed this updated configuration to one of my servers, all my services immediately fell over. I had the sense to look at journalctl right away which made it very apparent what the problem was: ...