Notes

• I rewrote my dotfiles around a single Makefile2026-02-18After 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 home2025-11-30Eight 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 Portugal2025-09-07A 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 stuck2025-06-21After 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.