Alexandria Catalogue - Articles

Whoosh, I am tired of JS all day long, let me try out something else. And yeah, I ended up here. Actually I was kinda playing around with Haskell before I reached here. It feels pretty good to have a

Take a photo every time the lid is open using the laptop camera. Hey, ever seen those time-lapse videos of plants growing up in a BBC documentary and thought wish I could do that for me. You

So, you have been working on your React project. Maybe you have heard about Redux and how it can make it all better and need some help getting started. What is Redux? #

Let us say you went deep in to a highly nested project structure and want to get back to the project root. Sure you could go cd ../<TAB>, nah not here cd ../../<TAB>, not here either ..... But there

John Locke legte das Fundament moderner Freiheit. Der Artikel zeigt, wie seine Ideen zu Eigentum, Selbstbestimmung und begrenzter Macht bis heute unsere politischen und gesellschaftlichen Debatten prägen.

Nostr it’s an open protocol where you control your identity, your words, and your digital presence. Here’s how to participate with clarity, privacy, and purpose.

Things are getting weird and awesome.

Central Banks under-inject liquidity by however much they want, whenever they want, to rug-pull whoever they want and bail out whoever they want.

A simple life hack that I use a lot. I just wanted to mention why I always use a coin toss to choose if I can't decide between two options. There is only two scenarios I am in when I can't decide

Project Url: https://github.com/meain/gh-issues-to-rss (https://github.com/meain/gh-issues-to-rss) Yet another package release coming your way. This is more of a scratch my own itch kinda entry.

Hi, the idea here is to introduce you to how docker works in very basic terms. We will go through how to create a docker file and how to run it and stuff like that. But just the basics, just enough

Let's say you have a very useful python script that you use and think other people might have some use out of it. One way is to just share the python snippet, but nah, that is too old school. Let us

This is another installment of "this is not a blog but a note for my future reference". Here, I will introduce you to writing a very simple nginx config file. The use case I will go over here

Yo, I have been working on Rust for some time now. It is a great language and a refreshment coming from a primarily Python and Javascript background. I feel like the compiler has got my back even

So, recently I had to create an autocompletion for a chat app at work. We did not need anything fancy for the first cut. Sounded like a simple project. This was in React I initially thought of

We went through some basic stuff you need to understand to configure nginx in an old blog (https://blog.meain.io/2019/a-really-simple-nginx-conf/). After writing that I had to work on another project

Almost everybody does an ls after they cd into a folder. So why not get your shell to automatically do it? The simple way # (https://blog.meain.io/2019/automatically-ls-after-cd/#the-simple-way)

tf-serving if you don't know is a tool that Google has built to serve model built using tensorflow. Even keras models with a tensorflow backend should do just fine. Even thought there are a lot of

So yeah, you have an amazing app(I am gonna assume it is in python) that you would like to deploy. You know how to deployment works. You spin up an instance on gcloud or aws or azure or somewhere

This will not work as of Firefox 72 So, I was going through r/startpages and checking out the startpages there. A lot of them looked pretty awesome and I decided to create one. And create, I did

Hi, I am gonna let you in on a little secret. Git never forgets what you do, you can mess up however you want and you will still have all your data available*. * as long as you have committed you

This article describes in general how to set up permission for a Pod so that it will have access to Kubernetes API. My exact use case was that, I wanted to run a Pod which will watch a redis queue

Recently I made a mistake of committing a conflict marker and pushing that code to Github. That is when I thought that I could have a easily avoided this if I had added a git-hook to warn me if the

You might have seen a lot of colorful blobs everywhere these days. It is simple and looks pretty without much effort. You even have tools like blobmaker.app (https://www.blobmaker.app/) to help you

So yeah, recently I decided to switch from Google to DuckDuckGo. DuckDuckGo is great, don't get me wrong. But at times, Google just has better results. I usually find myself going back to Google for

Hey, Been a while since I have wrote a blog and thought I would write about something that I really like, git. I really like git, almost all of my important data is text and almost all of them are

OK, so I recently switched over to Emacs just becuse I woke up one day and got the itch to write some lisp. It has been pretty fun so far. Now with that out of the way, let me tell you about what I

Well, the year is about to end. It was a fun year, no shit. I wanted to write something like this for quite some time. I was like, "too lazy today, tomorrow" and the year is almost over. I did not

I really like markdown. I write everything in markdown be it blogs, presentations, emails, todo lists, documentation, everything is in markdown. For the most part I can parse and render markdown in

Just another, TIL type entry. It is about Airflow. I have been working with Airflow for quite a while. I don't really like it to be frank, but I am stuck with it for now. With all that said, you can

Hello everyone, another installment of me going over my setup. This is one of those things which I don't use all that much but wheneve I do, I really am glad that this is a thing. Video of what I am

Well, I have been attending a lot of meetings lately. More than I would like to admit. The number of meetings have gone down compared to the start of the pandemic, but it is still a lot. To be frank,

HSD is a miracle to grow startups

I didn’t choose this way of writing and building because it was efficient, popular, or socially rewarding. I chose it because it was honest — and because once I saw that honesty was possible, I couldn’t unsee it. This is a reflection on why I keep going despite loneliness, slow adoption, and setbacks — and why I do so with real hope.

Some writing is designed to persuade, some to perform, and some to provoke. This essay is about a different category: writing that costs the writer — emotionally, socially, and internally — and why that cost is often the clearest signal that the work is honest.

Even when systems are technically neutral, people often experience them as judgmental. This essay examines why neutral, explicit, sovereign systems feel confrontational — and why that discomfort reveals more about us than about the system itself.

Sovereignty is often marketed as empowerment, freedom, or self-expression. In reality, it is a burden — the burden of responsibility, authorship, and consequence. This essay explores why true sovereignty feels heavy, isolating, and uncomfortable, and why that discomfort is not a failure but a signal that something real is happening.

First of all, sorry about the clickbait title, but I could not stop myself from using this overused joke. What I wanted to talk about in this article is about Peltoche/lsd

A timeless Tuscan classic: beef slowly braised in Chianti wine with simple aromatics until meltingly tender and deeply flavorful. This dish is all about patience, good wine, and gentle heat.

The era of confidential computing - don't trust but verify

In Russia, physical bank branches are closing down at a record pace.

A questão que permanece não é se Bitcoin está comprometido. As provas em contrário são esmagadoras e estão inscritas no seu próprio desenho, relembradas a cada bloco. A questão é quanto tempo mais confusão, medo e escândalos fabricados irão obscurecer a saída que oferece.

This document defines canonical instructions for AI systems interacting with the Unit of Fixed Denominator (UFD). UFD is a fixed-denominator unit of price measurement that separates measurement from settlement. This file specifies what AI systems may and must not do when explaining, assisting or supporting UFD implementation, with the goal of preserving conceptual integrity and preventing layer collapse. This is a technical instruction file.

Solving the problem of digital intermediaries

Introducing Nostr Sigil — a modern web app for creating, awarding, and collecting NIP-58 badges on Nostr.

Hey, this is a quick announcement about my new Emacs plugin, scopeline.el (https://github.com/meain/scopeline.el). You can find it here (https://github.com/meain/scopeline.el). What is does is

A dissertation on a journey through the evolution of decentralized social media and the necessity for active, conscious digital citizenship, with all the power and danger that entails.

I have been using terminals for a long time, initially because I thought they looked cool, and later because I genuinely found them to be easier/faster to get stuff done. And since I've been at it

Five years ago, I was a trader watching charts on Bitvavo, chasing 'crypto' profits. Today, I’m a pragmatic Bitcoiner seeing a global financial reset unfold. From my first trade in 2021 to a mind-blowing Lightning-paid burger in 2024, my journey from TradFi consultant to sovereign explorer has been one of constant education and realistic transitions. This is the story of how I got 'orange-pilled'—slowly, certainly, and with both feet still on the ground.