Notes

Notes

Short thoughts and quick notes — not full blog posts.

Nx 23 is out, and buried in the performance section is the line that made me nod hardest: the daemon’s memory footprint on their own repo dropped from around 1.5GB to roughly 200MB — about a 7× reduction. I felt that old number. Swap thrashing, fans spinning up for no good reason, just because Nx was sitting there. That pain has quietly gone away over the recent 22.x releases, and I only noticed how bad it was…

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Fresh Kubuntu install, a handful of common apps — and snapd alone is already ~6 GB. That’s the part that gets me: Ubuntu inside Ubuntu, just to run software that could be installed and run like any normal package. The disk space isn’t the real complaint. It’s the overhead, and the fact that this is the default on what’s supposed to be a mainstream desktop OS. Sure, I can fix it. I can pin apt…

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If you install Mattermost on Manjaro via pacman/AUR — not Snap; the Snap build does not hit this — do not enable “Start app on login” in Mattermost’s own settings. Turn that off. Keep “Launch minimized” and “Show icon in tray”. Then add Mattermost to autostart manually from Manjaro/KDE system settings (Session and Startup → Autostart). Why: a years-old bug, still open. Mattermost’s built-in autostart writes…

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You may do apt dist-upgrade or yay or pacman -Syu everyday, but do you nvm install --reinstall-packages-from=current 'lts/*' too?

Who made this mega commit? I should fire him!

554 files changed, 10242 insertions(+), 9303 deletions(-) Author: Omid Farhang Date: Tue Jun 16 19:23:08 2026 +0330

oops.

Switching from GitLens to Git Blame and Git Graph was the right call; I was just keeping some bloatware out of habit.

Spent way too long debugging a “broken CLI tool” in Cursor… Turned out it wasn’t broken — it was Snap. Wrapper-based installs (like Snap) can quietly change how CLI tools behave inside IDE agents and scripts. Switched to a native package. Problem disappeared instantly.

Git 2.54 is another reminder that core developer tools still evolve in small but meaningful ways. Even when a release does not introduce flashy headline features, updates to Git can still affect everyday work through improved reliability, workflow polish, and bug fixes that shape how teams collaborate. For people who live in repositories all day, these incremental changes often matter more than they first appear.…

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Manjaro 25.1 “Anh-Linh” just breathed new life into my ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 (Ultra 9 + RTX 3050 + Intel Arc) — battery now lasts noticeably longer and games run way smoother, all with zero extra tweaking. Everything finally feels right out of the box. Massive props to the Manjaro team for this release. The hybrid Intel + NVIDIA setup on my laptop finally behaves the way it always should have, without me fighting…

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Pidgin confirmed today that ss-otr, a third-party plugin listed since July 6, contained a keylogger and shared screenshots with unwanted parties. If you installed it, uninstall immediately. Going forward, listed plugins must have an OSI-approved open source license.

https://pidgin.im/posts/2024-08-malicious-plugin/