The “Macbook” of Linux as my Daily Driver — In 2022, I did some research on what I thought might be a good fit as my next daily driver and narrowed down to 2 final candidates. As the specs on the Starlabs Starbook MK VI got some major bumps, I finally decided to pull the trigger on making it…

All-in-One Messenger that doesn’t kill your laptop batteries — If you have been following for a while, you would know that I have been on a never ending quest to find an effective all-in-one messenger that’s separate from my main browser for quite some time now since my day-to-day work requires me to be on a bunch of different…

or any desktop e-mail client of choice for that matter of fact — Unless you are a fan of webmail or only use the Outlook desktop/mobile apps for e-mail, you better hope your alternative e-mail client of choice supports logging into Office 365 with OAuth2. Now if you are a Linux user or you simply want to use an opensource solution, well, you…

3dfosi/gocrypt — A Golang Encryption Helper Module — Recently, I was reviewing the encryption implemented for a mobile application’s stored data at work and also ran across this article about a vulnerability found in the Microsoft Teams desktop app where the access token was stored on the users’ computers in clear text. It prompted me to look back…

with 2 stupid simple settings; proper muting and folders — Telegram has been my primary form of communication with most of my work contacts and the friends/family I am closest to. We choose it not because it’s the most secure messenger nor did we choose it because it’s supposed to be “privacy focused”. In fact, it’s arguably not very secure…

Swapping Function and Multi-Media Keys — Those who know me know that I am sort of a keyboard driven type of guy and prefer not to use the mouse if I don’t have to. This way, I don’t have to keep moving my hands around to navigate my workstation. That’s why System76’s Pop Shell tiling window…

Still not excited enough to get a new daily driver yet — It’s that time of the year again when I usually purchase my new daily driver yet, I am still patiently holding back and just keeping myself up-to-date on the latest offerings for a Linux catered solution that makes me excited enough to just say screw it and pull the trigger…

Graphically manage Dockerized local dev environments — 3DF Development Environment Manager (DEM) is an open source lightweight desktop application that takes simple user input via a graphical user interface (GUI) to automate the management of docker containers as local software development environments. …

Meet Sidekick — A privacy focused app-centric browser — UPDATE (09/19/2022) - As of a few months ago, I have found that there are some small annoyances like the left side bar hints prevents the user from clicking the icon and some increasing resource usage on my system that may or may not be a memory leak. As such…