September 6, 2025: Weekly Notes 2025/12

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  • I ordered https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/typescript-cookbook/9781098136642/ early this week. The packaging smelled like kerosene so I returned it. Today, I got a less-stinky replacement. Whey did they wrap the book in such a stinky paper! The book is great. Its my second book on TS after https://effectivetypescript.com/ Can’t wait to read it. Already referred to it on Enum which are pretty finicky in TS.
    • It’s very impressive how much typescript can do while maintaining such a great compatibility with JS.
  • I am more and more concerned about stability of OS on my laptop. Which is funny because during my college days, I’d spend whole week on installing different login manager, window manager and OSes. I had Gentoo on the lab desktop and a Puppy Linux pen-drive with me all the time. These days, if anything is slightly different than muscle memory, I gets annoyed.
  • I am very close to replace my OpenSUSE TW with Debian 13 today. I want a robust base. Appimage is pretty good these days and I don’t see any reason for using a bleeding edge OS. OpenSUSE is a great OS but I wish zypper ref was faster and parallel download is available a year ago.
    • I may have to install Windows on my laptop since a few software (like Notion) has no good app on Linux. Also some of the consultancy work I do needs Windows e.g. kernel mini-filter etc. Also the sound quality in meetings is not very great on Linux. Not really a fault of Linux when vendors don’t spend anything on Linux.
  • Are there startups where folks worked 9 to 5 and succeeded?

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