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Stop talking about vibe coding!

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Everyone is talking about vibe coding. It seems impossible to pass a day without reading or hearing about it. But why? I mean, everyone knows that it is a shitty VC funded AI buzzword-bingo idea that’s just a rage bait¹ (and I’m falling victim to the rage bait). Nothing more. Nobody will seriously vibe code. Because if you don’t understand the code, you lack the understanding to maintain it. You depend on an AI for maintaining the code and fixing bugs, but the AI will probably perform worse as the projects grow. Therefore, increasing the challenge in maintainability.

TIL: git conditional config with and without home-manager

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Today I learnt how to use git conditional config to use multiple identities easily.
I use git for my private project and the projects I need to work at my day job.
To keep these two projects apart, I have a ~/projects folder in my home directory with the two subfolder ~/projects/work and ~/projects/personal. Now we can tell git to always use the one identity for all projects under ~/projects/personal and another for ~/projects/work. We just add two includeIfs in our git config. With includeIf we can specify other files to source if the condition is met. The prepended “gitdir:” just means every git repository under this directory. ¹

Today was my birthday and I didn't cry

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I was scared of today. Very scared. I thought I would be crying all day, thinking about you. You’ve always told me what you wanted to gift me for this birthday, that you wanted to bake a cake for me. You’ve never wanted to tell me what you wanted to gift me, but you’ve always mentioned it accidentally. Every time I thought about my birthday in the last few weeks, I always thought about you. I had been excited about my birthday because of you, but now it feels like a regular day.

How I broke sudo on my Dads Mac and how I fixed it

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Currently, I’m in the process of migrating my Steam Deck to NixOS. Today finally arrived my 1 TB NVMe, so I rushed to installing it and reinstalling NixOS as I already had a working configuration. The annoying part is, that, when using Jovian-NixOS you need to compile the kernel. As this takes long and my father owns a M1 Mac, I thought about building my NixOS configuration on the mac and copying it to the Steam Deck.

SCP, my beloved

Sat, 06 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Have you ever struggled to find the perfect tool for transferring files, which is easy to use and broadly available? If so, you are not alone, and I think I might have found the solution called “scp.”

What is SCP?

SCP is a program shipped with OpenSSH, allowing you to copy files between two hosts over a network. Since it’s shipped with OpenSSH, it should be available on most of your computers, making it convenient to use. For SCP to work, you need to point it to a running SSH server. Now let’s look at some examples of how to use SCP.

About me

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hey, I’m Alex (he/him). I’m a software developer based in Bonn, Germany. I spend my days writing code, and somehow I still enjoy doing it in my free time too.

Outside of coding, you’ll find me going for walks or a hike. I also like to put on some music and just exist for a while.

Things I like

Here’s an incomplete list of things I’m interested in or want to learn more about:

Projects

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

TheGoldEconomy

TheGoldEconomy is a simple Minecraft Spigot Plugin, which implements a on gold items based Economy. It integrates with VaultAPI, PlaceholderAPI and Towny.

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