A 12 day Advent of Code year convinced me Gleam is the real deal, thanks to Rust-like errors, great pipes, and surprisingly ergonomic FP.

Imgur started blocking UK users. Rather than installing a VPN on every device, I set up a network-wide proxy that tunnels Imgur traffic through a VPN automatically.

OpenAI live-fixed a bug on stage during their GPT-5 launch, promised to merge it after the show, and three months later it’s still broken. Nobody seems to care.

Upgraded to WiFi 7 expecting 1.7 Gbps speeds. Got 400 Mbps instead. Here’s what was actually wrong and how I fixed it.

IntelliJ kept saying “Failed to connect” to my Ollama instance while curl worked perfectly. Here’s what actually broke and the one-line fix.