750 meters swimming, 25 kilometers cycling, 5 kilometers running. My first sprint-distance triathlon is officially in the books – and what an emotional rollercoaster it’s been. It all happened at the Aloha Tri Traun Triathlon. But to be honest, the lead-up to this day wasn’t promising. Just a few days earlier, during my final bike …
My First Sprint Triathlon: From Doubt to Triumph at Aloha Tri Traun + read more
For several years of my professional life, I’ve lived between worlds – Linux for development, Windows for daily comfort and gaming, and macOS when the polish and ecosystem just made things feel… nice. But I’ve always felt like I was cheating on one platform with another. No single environment ever gave me the full stack …
Designing and debugging your own operating system is one of the most fulfilling but technically demanding projects you can undertake as a systems programmer. You have to build every abstraction yourself – memory management, privilege levels, system calls, user-space transitions, and interrupt handling – all while dealing with the quirks of real hardware and complex …
After years of using macOS, I recently decided to install Linux on my old (unused) 13-inch MacBook Pro from 2019 – the one with the infamous Touch Bar and Apple’s T2 security chip. It wasn’t just an experiment. I wanted a fully working x64 based Linux desktop without buying any new hardware, and therefore I …
Switching My 2019 MacBook Pro to Linux: The T2-Ubuntu Journey + read more
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