#30 — August 30, 2025 by Evan Chen

Apparently "Häagen-Dazs" is an completely artificial invented name.

His daughter Doris Hurley reported in the 1996 PBS documentary An Ice Cream Show that her father sat at the kitchen table for hours saying nonsensical words until he came up with a combination he liked. The reason he chose this method was so that the name would be unique and original.

#29 — August 28, 2025 by Evan Chen

You miss N% of the shots you don't take for any every integer N.

#28 — August 28, 2025 by Evan Chen

You can tell I got nothing done today because my dotfiles repository has 265 lines of changes in the last 12 hours 🙃

#27 — August 27, 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 — August 26, 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.