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step by step zapret installation to bypass isp deep packet inspection.

what i learned, what i built, and what i am aiming for this year.

what got faster, what stayed the same, and what got harder.

alacritty, zsh, tmux, and the small configs that make it work.

the mental shift from garbage collection to ownership.

recreating the github contribution graph from scratch for my personal website.

building images under 50mb instead of gigabytes and why it matters.

why i still use last.fm in 2025 and how i added it to my site.

finally a dotfiles manager that does not feel like a second job.

giving up 5 years of modal editing for a mouse-friendly rust-based editor.

wiring a tiny pipeline that turns my messy vault into clean blog-ready markdown.

notes on building opinionated little binaries fast and keeping scope under control.

balancing nostalgia and usability while building the new theme for this site.

stop shipping chromium with a chatbot sidebar and calling it revolutionary. please.

first post on this new blog. thoughts on why i'm writing and what to expect.