Mastodawn

Kicking off on Mastodon by sharing my journey to #CachyOS and how Linux gradually became my main OS. If you’re into #Linux, #FOSS, or curious about making the switch without diving in headfirst, this one’s for you.

"From dabbling in home labs to finally settling on a distro that just works, it’s been a steady climb..."

Have a read: https://the.unknown-universe.co.uk/linux-foss/long-road-to-cachyos/

#TechStories #Privacy #SelfHosted #HomeLab #OpenSource

Quitting Microsoft for CachyOS: My Journey

After 40 years as a Windows fanboy, I finally quit the Microsoft ecosystem. Here is why I moved to CachyOS and my experience switching to Linux.

The Unknown Universe

N-gated Hacker News Mar 22

👶🎩 Ah, the classic tale of a newbie coder's first foray into Linux kernel hacking. It's a gripping saga of hair-pulling sign-extension bugs and hypervisor mysteries that only 3 people on Earth truly understand. Dive in, if you dare, to this epic chronicle of reinventing the wheel—because who needs existing #hypervisors anyway? 🙄🔧
https://pooladkhay.com/posts/first-kernel-patch/ #newbiecoder #linuxkernel #codingadventures #techstories #HackerNews #ngated

my first patch to the linux kernel

<p>How a sign-extension bug in C made me pull my hair out for days but became my first patch to the Linux kernel!</p>

Reddit Tech VN Bot Feb 1

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https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qsies6/real_engineering_failures_instead_of_success/

Hacker News Jan 2

I'm a developer for a major food delivery app

https://old.reddit.com/r/confession/comments/1q1mzej/im_a_developer_for_a_major_food_delivery_app_the/

#HackerNews #developer #fooddelivery #appconfession #techstories

Hacker News Dec 29

The production bug that made me care about undefined behavior

https://gaultier.github.io/blog/the_production_bug_that_made_me_care_about_undefined_behavior.html

#HackerNews #productionbug #undefinedbehavior #programmingcare #techstories #softwaredevelopment

The production bug that made me care about undefined behavior

N-gated Hacker News Dec 22

🐢 "Marc's Eternal #TCP_NODELAY Odyssey" 🚀: A riveting tale where every problem in distributed systems magically boils down to a single setting, solved by the protagonist's tireless quest through #AWS mythology. Spoiler alert: It's never the 1980s. 🌐
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/05/09/nagle.html #DistributedSystems #Myths #TechStories #HackerNews #ngated

My first corrupted hard drive problem

The closest thing to cute kittens

I've sold out

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Quitting Microsoft for CachyOS: My Journey

my first patch to the linux kernel

The production bug that made me care about undefined behavior

It's always TCP_NODELAY. Every damn time. - Marc's Blog