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TIL: automatically signing Git commits and adding signoffs

(2026-09-14)

For a new work project, I had to set up GPG signing and add the signed-off-by trailer to all my commit messages. I’m using lazygit, so while these options are available in the command line, I needed some more general way to do this. Here’s how I’ve done it, in case it’s useful to other folks.

Handy: privacy-preserving open-source speech-to-text

(2026-03-03)

I’ve recently discovered Handy, a small speech-to-text (dictation) application, that is open source and can use only local AI models on Linux, preserving the privacy of what I’m saying out loud by not sending it to some cloud servers. I found it handy (lol), so I figured that I could share some hardships that I’ve run into while setting it up on ArchLinux.

Reinstalling Archlinux, btw

(2026-02-15)

One of my SSD disks crashed this weekend. No worries at all, no data was lost during the process, because everything important was in the cloudz.