Hi, I'm Theo. This is a small corner of the internet where I keep half-finished thoughts — mostly about the tools I build, the books I read, the coffee I overthink, and the occasional trip. Nothing here is trying to sell you anything; it's just a notebook that happens to be public.
Recent notes
- I rewrote my dotfiles around a single MakefileAfter years of a tangled install.sh and a homegrown bootstrapper, I tore my dotfiles down and rebuilt them around one Makefile. Here's why it stuck, what I got wrong, and the targets I actually use.
- Eight months chasing a decent espresso at homeEight months, one used machine, and a small pile of beans later — here's what actually moved the needle on home espresso, and what was just me buying my way out of a problem I didn't understand yet.
- A slow week of trains through northern PortugalA week of unhurried regional trains through the Douro valley and the north of Portugal — small stations, bad coffee, good views, and what a slow itinerary teaches you about pacing.
- The plain-text to-do list that finally stuckAfter a decade of bouncing between fancy task apps, I gave up and went back to a single plain-text file. Here's the absurdly simple setup that's lasted eight months and counting.