**How Accurate Were My Virtual CachyOS Benchmarks?
(Or: That Time My Old Laptop Tried to Teach Me Humility)** We’ve all heard the legend: “CachyOS runs great on old hardware!”Some […]
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Should You Put Your Software on GitHub or Just Sling It From Your Website?
(The Pitmaster’s Guide to Open Source Sharing Without Getting Burned) You’ve just finished writing your masterpiece: a lean, mean, bug-fighting machine of […]
Read more🧠 Leonardo Revisited via Go!
About two years ago I wrote a small Java application to convert MP4 files for use with the free version of DaVinci […]
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🐹 Go for It! The Curious Case of Golang, Google’s Speedy Little Language
Welcome back to Bytes, Bread, and Barbecue — where we grill our meat and our programming languages to a perfect medium rare. […]
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🧈 CachyOS: The Linux Distro That Might Save Your Windows 10 Refugee PC
Picture this: your trusty old Windows 10 machine — the one that’s seen you through a thousand spreadsheets, countless YouTube rabbit holes, […]
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X11, Wayland — and Why Your Linux Screen Feels Like a BBQ Grill
Let’s talk about the plumbing behind your Linux desktop: the often-invisible but critical layer that makes windows draw, move, resize, and flop […]
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Wrestling with Java Database
Subtitle: How I body-slammed a stubborn Java app with the help of artificial intelligence (and a little stubbornness of my own) I’ve […]
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Snaps, Flatpaks, and AppImages Walk into a Bar…
It’s Friday night at the Terminal Tavern, and three software packages walk in: Snap, Flatpak, and AppImage.The bartender, a grizzled old sysadmin […]
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Testing the Poolish Calculator
I’ve been dabbling in bread baking for quite some time—close to 20 years, in fact. Back then, I picked up a copy […]
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Two Weeks of Riding the Dragon
Two weeks ago, I traded in my trusty Linux Mint for Garuda Gaming Dragonized Linux. Why? Because my Blizzard games started acting […]
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