There is a git setting that is off by default, but when turned on, it makes resolving merge conflicts trivial. That setting is merge.conflictstyle = diff3. This setting is a merge conflict resolving superpower. Even if you had nothing to do with the changes in the two trees you are merging, with it on, you are able to infer the correct resolution.

About 3 years ago I switched my primary OS from MacOS back to Linux. I hadn't run it as a desktop OS since college and have memories of updates breaking my system, battling with Xorg configs, and slow, bloated DEs. However, this time around it has been a very positive and painless experience. It's been more stable than MacOS (despite using a rolling release distribution). And now that I'm running a Wayland compositor (Sway), I don't have any screen tearing or need to deal with Xorg configuration anymore. But the feature I've missed most from MacOS is having readline style bindings in all text inputs uniformly across the system.

The page you are browsing right now is being served by IPFS. You can verify this yourself; any content available on IPFS is also available on this gateway¹. For example, you can visit the IPFS getting started directory or a previous version of this blog.

I use Arch Linux meta packages to manage the dependencies on my system. You can see all of my PKGBUILD files here. They are broken out into individual meta package groups based on the type of system I'm installing for.