#27 — Wed 27 August 2025 by Evan Chen

tried out astral-sh's typechecker ty which i found out about today. as usual i'm blown away.

if i knew rust i would seriously consider applying for a job at astral

#26 — Tue 26 August 2025 by Evan Chen

Today was another "oh crap the kernel broke time to regenerate fstab" day. My laptop's /boot ran out of space.

Turns out there isn't actually any reason that initramfs or vmlinuz-linux need to go on the EFI partition. So the solution was to

1. Create a new mount point /efi
2. Move the EFI partition under that mount point.
3. Make a normal /boot folder (not a mount point) on the root partition.
4. Move initramfs or vmlinuz-linux onto that folder.
5. Rerun grub-install and grub-mkconfig.
6. Regenerate /etc/fstab.

Could've been worse. Thanks Reddit.

#25 — Tue 26 August 2025 by Evan Chen

Anki reviews have become way less painful since changing desired retention from 90% to 84%. I guess my memory is just too bad for 90% to be a realistic goal.

#24 — Tue 26 August 2025 by Evan Chen

Still love the feeling of having an idea for a feature at 10am on a Tuesday morning and having it shipped and live on production by noon. Gotta love Django.

#23 — Tue 26 August 2025 by Evan Chen

The more I learn about Korean grammar, the more I'm convinced that English grammar makes no sense and is way less elegant.