Today I decided to do something to my own personal website and decided to a less is more approach to the content. So now, after 8 years of no content update, told my agents to use Hugo, minimal JS and HTML and it is now live again with latest info. Welcome to my Web log.

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The one thing I always compare when looking at other laptop makers is this:

Does it sleep as seamlessly when I close the lid as a MacBook does—and still have great battery endurance?

It sounds simple, but surprisingly few laptops get this right.

Reading on Kilocode substack mailing list, see Gas Town by Kilo, clicks button on getting started. Point a side project on GitHub to work on. Ask mayor to work on issues (created by /grill-with-docs by @mattpocockuk) the something is churning. No idea what is going on 😂

Me learning how to use GPG and commit signing for the first time > stumbles to Microsoft VSCode GitHub wiki on the topic. Finds hilarious instructions on it. 😂

Debugging Polyscope + Z.ai on Ubuntu 24.04
- Polyscope worked manually
- Failed under supervisord/systemd

Problem: models not loading
Turns out:
- Z.ai/Claude helper lives inside Node (installed via NVM)
- Requires -/.nvm/nvm.sh to set PATH & env

- Supervisord/systemd start with minimal env -> Node + helper invisible - no models

Fix: run via a login shell with NVM loaded:
`/bin/bash -lc 'source ~/.bashrc && polyscope-server'`
(used above for command=)

Lesson: tools relying on shell init fail in clean process managers.

@marcelpociot @getpolyscope I am trying out the Linux standalone server of Polyscope. Tried to use the curl command for the script, somehow timing out. Then I tried to manually download the binary - man it is awfully slow. Even it is just about 100MB. Downloading it to Brunei.

There is something wrong with Digital Ocean's France server and trying to download it to Brunei. I'm barely able to finish the download before timing out.

Hmm I just tried downloading from a VPS in Singapore, it can downloading it fast with no issue. Perhaps it maybe just the ISP or just Brunei region in particular. Anyway, I'll try this Standalone Server soon. 😁

Trying out Agents Orchestration:
- Polyscope by @marcelpociot ✅
- Superset.sh 🚧
- jean.build by @heyandras 🚧

Today I shipped my first vibe coded Laravel project - a Web app that capture PDF documents submitted by students during their internship program. Mainly powered by Z.ai's GLM via Claude Code (through z.ai's Coding Tool Helper for setup)

Struggling to use FrankenPHP with Laravel for production. Reset from scratch a VPS about 3 times. Challenge: use FrankenPHP without Docker with Laravel Reverb on the same server. Main effort is to understand what settings to choose for Caddyfile for Laravel production.

It seems like I found gap in finding tutorials or steps on how to do this. Even GPT answers on this look like they are hallucinating. (I'm guessing the culprit here is the docs on both FrankenPHP or Caddy don't do much for a complete example for Laravel).

TIL about git-switch. I totally missed out about `git switch ...` command. I was like: huh since when this was available? A quick search points out it was out since 2019 and to simplify the loaded responsibility that `git checkout` was having - make sense! `-b` was outrageous!

Tried Omarchy on bare metal. Had to retry 2 times for installation (hard reset in between) - not sure what made it failed during installation even using retry many times. After few hours poking around, it seems like I need to grind on it to get productive.

Mainly because I need to learn the shortcuts as well as finding out how to swap the alt button with the Windows key to match it with MacOS.

I managed to get Laravel running but I'm not used to using `php artisan serve` - spoiled using Valet and now Laravel Herd. - anyone knows how to get the same experience on Arch?

Trying Claude 4 Opus for the first time. Trying to convert existing Laravel 6 to Laravel 12 (rebuilt from scratch + improvements and best practices) within 2 hours I have exhausted the tokens with Pro account. Hmm..