Notes

Notes

Short thoughts and quick notes — not full blog posts.

Before chasing fancy shell prompts, make sure your session survives a disconnect. A resilient terminal matters far more than another zsh customization.

Tools like GNU screen, tmux, and Zellij keep long-running remote work alive when your SSH connection drops.

I’ve always appreciated one small detail in Manjaro: matray. As a long-time user, it feels like the distro respects my time by providing a simple tray app backed by a dedicated news source (https://manjaro.news/). Important announcements reach users through one official, consistent channel instead of expecting everyone to monitor forums, blogs, or social media.

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Nx 23 is out, and buried in the performance section is the line that made me nod hardest: the daemon’s memory footprint on their own repo dropped from around 1.5GB to roughly 200MB — about a 7× reduction.

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Fresh Kubuntu install, a handful of common apps — and snapd alone is already ~6 GB.

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If you install Mattermost on Manjaro via pacman/AUR — not Snap; the Snap build does not hit this — do not enable “Start app on login” in Mattermost’s own settings.

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You may do apt dist-upgrade or yay or pacman -Syu everyday, but do you nvm install --reinstall-packages-from=current 'lts/*' too?

Who made this mega commit? I should fire him!

554 files changed, 10242 insertions(+), 9303 deletions(-) Author: Omid Farhang Date: Tue Jun 16 19:23:08 2026 +0330

oops.

Switching from GitLens to Git Blame and Git Graph was the right call; I was just keeping some bloatware out of habit.

Spent way too long debugging a “broken CLI tool” in Cursor… Turned out it wasn’t broken — it was Snap. Wrapper-based installs (like Snap) can quietly change how CLI tools behave inside IDE agents and scripts. Switched to a native package. Problem disappeared instantly.

Git 2.54 is another reminder that core developer tools still evolve in small but meaningful ways. Even when a release does not introduce flashy headline features, updates to Git can still affect everyday work through improved reliability, workflow polish, and bug fixes that shape how teams collaborate. For people who live in repositories all day, these incremental changes often matter more than they first appear.

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Manjaro 25.1 “Anh-Linh” just breathed new life into my ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 (Ultra 9 + RTX 3050 + Intel Arc) — battery now lasts noticeably longer and games run way smoother, all with zero extra tweaking. Everything finally feels right out of the box.

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