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- I Sold Out for $20 a Month and All I Got Was This Perfectly Generated TerraformFeb 16, 2026Mathew Duggan
Until recently the LLM tools I’ve tried have been, to be frank, worthless. Copilot was best at writing extremely verbose comments. Gemini would turn a 200 line script into a 700 line collection of gibberish. It was easy for me to, more or less, ignore LLMs for being
- The Small Web is Tricky to FindFeb 13, 2026Mathew Duggan
One of the most common requests I've gotten from users of my little Firefox extension(https://timewasterpro.xyz) has been more options around the categories of websites that you get returned. This required me to go through and parse the website information to attempt to put them into
- GitButler CLI Is Really GoodFeb 09, 2026Mathew Duggan
My workflow has remained mostly the same for over a decade. I write everything in Vim using the configuration found here. I run Vim from inside of tmux with a configuration found here. I write things on a git branch, made with the git CLI, then I add them with
- The Year of the 3D Printed Miniature (And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves)Dec 29, 2025Mathew Duggan
3D printing and miniatures as a case study in how tech misses what users actually want
- Making RSS More FunDec 02, 2025Mathew Duggan
I wrote a browser extension to try and make finding random, independent websites more fun.
- I broke and fixed my Ghost blogOct 16, 2025Mathew Duggan
In case you find this post after hours of google searching
- Greenland is a beautiful nightmareSep 27, 2025Mathew Duggan
Greenland is a complicated topic here in Denmark. The former colony that is still treated a bit like a colony is something that inspires a lot of emotions. Greenland has been subjected to a lot of unethical experiments by Denmark, from taking their kids to wild experiments in criminal justice.
- What Does a Post-Google Internet Look LikeJun 30, 2025Mathew Duggan
Google is moving to quickly kill internet search and replace it with a closed ecosystem of LLM-generated answers. This will change the entire economics of how the internet works.
- What Would a Kubernetes 2.0 Look LikeJun 19, 2025Mathew Duggan
As we approach the 10 year anniversary of the 1.0 release of Kubernetes, let's take stock of the successes and failures of the project in the wild. Also what would be on a wish list for a Kubernetes 2.0 release.
- Simple Python Script for FTP UploadsJun 12, 2025Mathew Duggan
I have a AX3000 wireless router that I slapped a cheap USB drive on that I wanted to automate the upload of files to. I ended up writing a simple python script to do the process for me that should work for any of these routers that expose a local FTP port.
- Write your own Ghost ThemeJun 05, 2025Mathew Duggan
I struggled to make a Ghost CMS theme that worked the way I wanted, so I made my own. Turned out to be a surprisingly easy experience.
- TIL Simple Merge of two CSVs with PythonMay 06, 2025Mathew Duggan
An easy script to merge two CSVs with Python and Pandas