I found a cmd cheat sheet I mailed myself in the Windows XP era and tested every line against Windows 11 in 2026. Roughly three quarters still work — and with the Control Panel half-migrated into Settings for a decade now, the ancient .cpl shortcuts are often the fastest path, not the nostalgic one.
160 XP 05 Jul 2026 WindowsThe .msc consoles aged almost perfectly, the AD tools now live in RSAT optional features — and the modern half of the toolbox my old sheet never knew: DISM before SFC, netsh triage, dsregcmd, winget, a real sudo, plus a formal obituary for wmic, which Windows 11 is deleting for good.
160 XP 01 Jul 2026 AIAnthropic's Mythos-class flagship returned today after a three-week outage, and until July 7 subscribers can spend up to half their weekly usage limit on it. What Fable 5 actually is, why the launch was so strange, and how I plan to burn my half a tank.
140 XP 24 Jun 2026 LinuxWhat started as a quick certificate swap for a Dockerized ERP stack turned into a full day of discovery — because "certificate" turns out to mean half a dozen different things that all look identical.
180 XP 24 Jun 2026 LinuxBuilding a PKCS#12 truststore for Keycloak looked straightforward until Java reported zero entries — a subtle OpenSSL quirk with aliases meant a technically valid file was completely invisible to the JVM.
180 XP 24 Jun 2026 LinuxThe certificates were technically correct, yet nothing would start — this part is about the configuration errors that are hardest to find precisely because everything looks right on the surface.
180 XP 24 Jun 2026 LinuxCertificates were clean, passwords unified, paths correct — yet one service still refused to start, and the reason was not a mistake in the files but a fundamental misunderstanding of how Java's trust architecture actually works.
180 XP 14 Jun 2026 AIFor weeks my relationship with AI was “rented”: log in, send a prompt to a distant data center, wait for the answer to cross the ocean. Convenient, but missing one thing — autonomy. So I loaded a 26-billion-parameter model onto my own RTX 4070 Ti Super and watched it answer on my own electricity. Here is what I learned about VRAM, quantization, and the quiet freedom of the edge.
90 XP 11 Jun 2026 LinuxA full Fedora 43 → 44 release upgrade on the only laptop I own — load-bearing “orphans,” a missing space that broke chrony, a clock pinned to a router that wasn’t there, and an upgrade committed in the dark. It landed clean.
220 XP 08 Jun 2026 LinuxMy volume keys stopped working on Sway — both the chassis rocker and the Fn keys. The keys were innocent; two audio servers were fighting over the speakers. A debugging whodunit, plus an on-screen volume bar.
200 XP 07 Jun 2026 LinuxI switched from i3 to Sway on my Dell XPS 13, logged in, and was greeted by a black screen and a lonely mouse cursor. Here is how that void turned into a desktop I actually love using.
180 XP 06 Jun 2026 Warhammer 40KA satisfied Saturday: I built and primed an Ottoman-themed Ultramarines army. No paint yet — here is the plan for what comes next.
250 XP 31 May 2026 PodcastA podcast about Turkish Yeşilçam cinema no one asked for. Ep. 1: Sensiz Yaşayamam (1977) — Metin Erksan's final film, a terminally ill woman, a hired killer, and late Yeşilçam's strangest love story.
31 May 2026 HobbyAfter decades of walking past game store windows, I finally bought a Warhammer 40k starter set. Going to paint it, play one serious game against a real nerd, and probably lose. Updates incoming.
31 May 2026 VlogA short clip from Heidelberg. It is very loud!