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Linux on desktop is happening. I'm building premium software for Linux'oids (and others)- http://devtui.com and http://poshtui.com
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Don't worry, about not being a "millionaire". If in 40's you didn't get addicted to drugs, alcohol and successfully avoided temptations to spiral into depression in your 30's. You're doing better than most. If you have time for sports or a gym, then you're golden.

GCC 15 has been keeping me busy.

Decided to change my bluesky description to be clear about my intentions and goals.

Annoyance driven development

DevTUI 0.25 is out. New utility: Base64 encoder/decoder that comes with TUI and CLIs. I'm also working on automatically generating documentation and screenshots. So things will be kept up to date at all times.

The personal car is a toxic asset type that keeps sucking money out of people for maintenance, insurance, and taxes. Why are people so surprised, that I don't own a car? I can always rent if there is a need - it's cheaper and easier than ever.

Unfortunately, I'm giving up on Manjaro in favor of Fedora. My new Framework laptop made me do it.

The first batch of DevTUI free licenses are sent out to everyone who responded to the email. There are plenty of early PoshTUI supporters that didn't respond yet - offer still stands :) Will love to hear your feedback.

As if Europe needed more encouragement to wean itself off American tech

New Linux machine to assemble this evening - uConsole.

The new DevTUI app website is live: devtui.com This is a Stage 2 of convertion into a pay for app. This version includes: - Checkout - Customer portal to manage licenses and invoices - Documentation that is mostly auto-generate from source code. What do you think?

This month will be a month of cool tech toys. Besides the Framework 13 laptop that arrived this week, uConsole has almost arrived and TRMNL seems to be a week away from my curious hands.

I forgot to screw in one screw, framework laptop was blinking with red lights on both sides until I did. This is insane.

A lot of friends with "honest feedback" attempting to poke holes in my ideas. these friends have value. But sometimes, I wish to have more friends like these.

The beast is here! I have absolutely no clue what to do with 94 GB of memory.... Display: 2.8K System: AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 Series - Ryzen™ AI 5 340 Memory: DDR5-5600 - 96GB Storage: WD_BLACK™ SN850X NVMe™- M.2 2280 - 4TB

Just saying Friendly.rb is happening the week after Rails World, and we still have a few tickets available https://friendlyrb.com @friendlyrb.com

I don't directly benefit from this work, but I'm still really enthusiastic that the ecosystem has such an awesome example of TUI's working on accessibility. I've seen some pull requests cooking in charm repo's and was really curious to see the results. And this is an interesting read and result.

New article: Software License management with Polar.sh skatkov.com/posts/2025-0...

Stuff you could do in 2025 that will increase your luck surface area:
 - Podcast - Give a talk - Take a course - Go to meetups - Promote your work - Go to a conference - Publish on YouTube - Create a side-project - Write a blog/newsletter - Attend a founder retreat - Build something in public 💻🌱

Waiting is almost over :-)

Son with his swimming diploma. This season he will join daddy riding on a wakeboard.

Europe needs to stop its reliance on big American tech and have our alternatives. But we should be doing that not by copying, but building better and having our own unique take on the same problems (with more privacy).

If you have emails with HTML templates in a startup, your shipping too late.

DevTUI 0.23 is out! The main theme for this release is to have license management integrated into the app. Currently, this feature is in testing mode, but with the next release, I hope to incentivize users to support development with a one-time financial contribution.

Tried using AI to write changelog for DevTUI 0.23.0 release. It hallucinated all the new features and contributors. Source code is private, so there is only one contributor :) Might need so fine tunning...

My personal chill space.

Want to properly document one of my TUI/CLI apps and was looking for an easy way to pull that off, through a "platform" or a OSS project. My current top contender is mintlify.com. But maybe someone used something else?