Is it a habit or a project?

09-09-2025

I stopped writing here for almost two weeks. It doesn't sound like that much but I know this is how it starts. I get sucked into a new rabbit hole and now any other project I had before goes to the back seat.

So what have I been doing these two weeks then, you ask? Mostly I went into a Linux tangent. I tried installing a couple distros in VirtualBox, didn't work —I don't know if it's something with with my computer integrated graphics, or someting with Ubuntu 25.04, but they run super slow, even a supposed "light-weight" distro—, so instead I decided to install a real Arch partition. First I tried using the "Archinstall" script, but weird things kept happening, so I had to go the long route and install it "the right" way —which took me a couple of tries, but it's not reeeeaaaly THAT hard—; and then I've spent the next week and a half configuring it. I actually thought about naming my next post here "Humbly Running Arch (btw)". When people talk about how intimidating installing Arch is, they never say this: installing the OS, the bare-bones Arch Linux system, is the easy part (if you follow the installation guide and don't get too crazy with your disk partition setup); the hard part comes later, setting up connections, keyboard, audio, a graphical environment, whether it's a WM or a DE—especially for a WM—, configuring it just the way you like it, making the different programs have a consistent theme, setting up bluetooth... OMFG, goddam bluetooth, I'm still struggling to get that to work properly. But it's an awesome learning experience, that's for sure. You get the idea.

But I think maybe that euphoria has tapered down a little. In the process of my Linux customization rabbit-hole, another thing I did was put I3 window manager on Ubuntu, and spent a few days configuring it before I decided to Install Arch with Sway wm. And I actually like this setup a lot... if I can get the f*@!ing bluetooth working properly again! The Arch partition is still there, I did manage to get it to a point where it's maybe 85% functional and even comfortable to use; I used it continually for a few days and it felt good. But it's the little things that make it unsustainable in the long term... like the mother-f@!$%ng bitch-tooth.

But besides slowing down down a little on the Linux roller coaster, I have a new old project. Just before that, and this, I was trying to get ChatGPT to teach me PHP. Now I've changed ChatGPT for Claude.ai, which I hear is better with all things programming. But it's not just generically teaching me php, I am developing something like a full ebook/course, it's hand-on, project-based and has (or will have) something of an innovative twist that I think will help a lot in bridging the gap between learner and developer and even avoid tutorial hell alltogether. I'm even making it open-source. I'm excited about this project, you can learn more about it here.

Anyway, regarding the main question from the title, I was thinking about this blog, it started as a project. Like I wrote in the intro, it spawned from a question whether I was able to host a propper domain in github pages, and it didn't need to, but it sort of naturally gravitated towards being a blog. But I want it to be more of a habit. Not because of any following or interaction but because I find it very amusing to track my many trains of thought.

So it's a project to turn this into a habit, while I try really hard to not to let my other projects die (mainly the php course, the Linux ricing thing can take a back seat.)