Blog on Tristan Partin

Introduction to my Dotfiles

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 00:07:44 -0500

Over time, I’ve accrued a fair amount of dotfiles. I thought I would share an overview of them through a series of blog posts, starting now!

Proton to Fastmail

Fri, 17 May 2024 00:56:07 -0500

I moved from Proton to Fastmail!

A Love Letter to Typst

Wed, 30 Aug 2023 17:42:59 -0500

I rewrote my resume in a new markup-based typesetting system called Typst.

Job Hunt 2023

Mon, 08 May 2023 23:37:08 -0500

This is insight into my job hunt after being laid off from Micron.

Introducing libmerr

Mon, 10 Apr 2023 20:46:39 -0500

libmerr is an error tracking static library for C99+. During this involuntary vacation, I have spent some time taking code out of the Heterogeneous-Memory Storage Engine (HSE).

I Got Laid Off

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:52:16 -0600

Well it happened to me.

What Social Media Has Become

Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:09:00 -0600

My commentary on what social media was and the problems that it has today.

Iceland Vacation

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 23:11:11 -0600

Musings of my vacation in Iceland.

Oak Hill Cemetery

Sun, 26 Jun 2022 21:41:17 -0500

I live near the Oak Hill Cemetery in Austin, and for a while I have been meaning to visit it. This weekend, I finally had the opportunity to check it out.

Moving to Fosstodon

Fri, 15 Apr 2022 19:50:30 -0500

Goodbye mastodon.social, and hello Fosstodon.

Motorcycle Crash Postmortem 2

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 11:18:29 -0500

This is a postmortem on a motorcycle crash which occurred on 2022-03-26.

Electron, Linux, and Your File Chooser

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 19:29:05 -0500

Electron has done a lot of good for desktop Linux. Without it, the desktop app selection would probably be much poorer, but many users have complained about the file chooser.

No More Analytics

Wed, 24 Mar 2021 22:22:17 -0500

This page used to use Plausible Analytics, but that is no more.

Green Versus Blue

Sat, 20 Mar 2021 22:52:59 -0500

The world is full of contrasting colors: white and black, blue and pink, but what about green and blue?

The Worst Performing Website I Have Ever Found

Sat, 13 Mar 2021 19:30:30 -0600

Today I was reminded of a time that I found the worst website ever in terms of its performance.

The Church of Big Tech

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 00:05:40 -0600

Sunday may be the day of the Lord, but the other six days of the week belong to Big Tech.

October 2020 Update

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 00:20:51 -0600

It has definitely been a while since the last time I blogged…

Personal Site Architecture V2

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 00:45:08 -0500

Recently I changed up the architectural backing of this site.

Writing an API Wrapper in C: The API Client

Sun, 03 May 2020 17:00:03 -0500

Welcome to the first blog in a series I will be calling Writing an API Wrapper in C. I’ll be talking about the API client in the first article.

Introduction

Sat, 11 Apr 2020 22:12:20 -0500

Welcome to my blog. This post is a pretty historic moment for me because I have been trying to create a personal website for a very long time. I figured I would create an introduction blog post to introduce any readers to myself.