Aleksandar's Online Notes

This blog now has comments. I know, groundbreaking.

I just wanted subtitles. Not a movie, not a game, not even the good kind of piracy — just a little .srt file so I could understand what people in a language I don’t speak were yelling at each other about. My media center pinged a tiny regional subtitle site, the kind run by three...

The universe trends toward disorder. Stars burn out, empires crumble, and somewhere between “I should really take that” and “I have definitely already taken that,” a small but structurally important fact evaporates from my head without so much as a forwarding address. Entropy doesn’t care whether the thing you forgot was a rent payment or...

I open the same kinds of links all day, but I do not want all of them in the same place.

GOG is one of the few places left where you actually own the games you buy. No launchers phoning home, no license servers that can go dark and take your library with them — just installers, yours to keep. That’s the whole point.

If you work in infosec in Serbia, you probably know SRB CERT — the national Computer Emergency Response Team. They publish security advisories, incident reports, and notifications on their site. Good stuff, worth following.

Back in February I wrote about PyCodeBridge as a way to doom-vibe-code from wherever I happened to be: phone in hand, Discord open, local development machine doing the real work somewhere else.

I recently added a simple task-management layer to my AI CLI setup, and it has been a big quality-of-life upgrade.

William Gibson’s iconic opening to Neuromancer has been “fixed” by technology, and the result is hilarious.

Stop Plugging Random USB Hardware Into Your Machines