A lifelong Windows junkie's journey towards Linux Freedom!!https://ownyourstack.dev/https://ownyourstack.dev/posts/the-pipeline-was-the-product/https://ownyourstack.dev/posts/the-pipeline-was-the-product/A rules file, a scorecard, three AIs and one human gate. I built it to get through my own job search — then read it back and it read like a spec. Here's what I'm building, and why the rules are the product.Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:01:01 GMThttps://ownyourstack.dev/posts/my-ai-toolchain-graveyard/https://ownyourstack.dev/posts/my-ai-toolchain-graveyard/I've retired far more AI tools than I've kept. The list of dead ones isn't as useful as the list of reasons they died — so here are the causes of death, and the five gates anything has to pass to stay installed.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:01:01 GMThttps://ownyourstack.dev/posts/forty-seven-extensions-later/https://ownyourstack.dev/posts/forty-seven-extensions-later/A directory listing, a category breakdown and one uncomfortable number. Here's what my VS Code install is actually made of, and the rule I'm using to decide what gets to stay.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:01:01 GMThttps://ownyourstack.dev/posts/the-2am-plugin-autopsy/https://ownyourstack.dev/posts/the-2am-plugin-autopsy/Two remark plugins have been configured in my build since the day the site started. Neither has ever produced any output. Here's the autopsy, and the trap that made it invisible.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:01:01 GMThttps://ownyourstack.dev/posts/sending-a-squad-after-one-bug/https://ownyourstack.dev/posts/sending-a-squad-after-one-bug/A build warning that pointed at a page that rendered perfectly. When the obvious explanations all look equally plausible, I stop asking one agent why and start sending four out to disprove each other.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:01:01 GMThttps://ownyourstack.dev/posts/three-codex-threads-three-command-names/https://ownyourstack.dev/posts/three-codex-threads-three-command-names/codex, codex exec and codex resume all start a session, but they start three different kinds of session. Here's how I run three threads at once without letting them trample each other.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:01:01 GMThttps://ownyourstack.dev/posts/three-ais-only-i-get-to-send/https://ownyourstack.dev/posts/three-ais-only-i-get-to-send/One AI scores the vacancy, A Second AI writes the pack and The Third AI reviews the output. None of them search, and they don't apply. Here's the AI first workflow I built around a crushing job hunt — and the rules that stop it turning into cheating.Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:01:01 GMThttps://ownyourstack.dev/posts/every-vacancy-wanted-a-different-me/https://ownyourstack.dev/posts/every-vacancy-wanted-a-different-me/Hand-editing the same resume for every vacancy, over and over, is what broke me. The breaking point wasn't rejection — it was repetition. So I stopped writing and started briefing, with one rule up front: act as an analyst, not a yes-man.Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:01:01 GMThttps://ownyourstack.dev/posts/fossil-dig/https://ownyourstack.dev/posts/fossil-dig/dnf replaced 4,646 packages and left zero fc43 kernels behind. It never touched a single directory name. A dig through a Fedora 44 machine still carrying Fedora 43 fossils.Sat, 09 May 2026 00:01:01 GMThttps://ownyourstack.dev/posts/fedora-43-to-44-in-eleven-minutes/https://ownyourstack.dev/posts/fedora-43-to-44-in-eleven-minutes/I upgraded Fedora 43 to 44 with dnf system-upgrade and it took 11 minutes, 21 seconds. The exact timeline, the numbers I got wrong reading the log, and the warning nobody tells you about.Tue, 05 May 2026 11:31:12 GMThttps://ownyourstack.dev/posts/ghost-alias/https://ownyourstack.dev/posts/ghost-alias/My bash grep has been broken this whole time - it's aliased to ag, a program that was never installed. How to audit every alias on your box in one command.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:01:01 GMThttps://ownyourstack.dev/posts/the-alias-that-bit-back-find-vs-fd/https://ownyourstack.dev/posts/the-alias-that-bit-back-find-vs-fd/My find ➜ fd alias hijacked a perfectly normal find command and handed it to the wrong tool. Here's the exact failure, the real error messages, and the two escape hatches that actually work in fish.Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:35:11 GMThttps://ownyourstack.dev/posts/the-terminal-file-manager-hunt-that-led-me-back-to-ghostty/https://ownyourstack.dev/posts/the-terminal-file-manager-hunt-that-led-me-back-to-ghostty/How hunting for a terminal file manager with previews led back to Ghostty, fixed Nautilus & desktop integration on Fedora 43Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:01:01 GMThttps://ownyourstack.dev/posts/kicking-off-2026/https://ownyourstack.dev/posts/kicking-off-2026/Kicking off 2026 Linux-style — no reboots, no telemetry, just freedom and Fedora fun!Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:01:01 GMThttps://ownyourstack.dev/posts/fedora-43-terminal-grew-a-personality/https://ownyourstack.dev/posts/fedora-43-terminal-grew-a-personality/Prettying up bash with Starship, escaping vim terror with micro, and finally switching to fish on Fedora 43 Workstation (GNOME/Wayland).Tue, 30 Dec 2025 15:20:35 GMThttps://ownyourstack.dev/posts/command-upgrades-that-crush-the-classics/https://ownyourstack.dev/posts/command-upgrades-that-crush-the-classics/How I turned my Fedora 43 terminal into a beast with bat, ripgrep, eza, fd, fzf. Modern CLI tools that make ls, cat, grep look prehistoric!Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:20:35 GMThttps://ownyourstack.dev/posts/terminal-emulator-odyssey-ptyxis/https://ownyourstack.dev/posts/terminal-emulator-odyssey-ptyxis/I started loving Fedora's terminal over GUI. Then chased 'better' emulators like Kitty, Alacritty, Wave... only to discover the default Ptyxis was perfect all along. Windows refugee wisdom.Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:20:35 GMThttps://ownyourstack.dev/posts/aftermath-of-the-screengremlinwars/https://ownyourstack.dev/posts/aftermath-of-the-screengremlinwars/In the aftermath of the ScreenGremlinWars - Give your Fedora laptop its own grown-up NextDNS config. DoT drop-in file tutorial.Wed, 24 Dec 2025 16:20:35 GMThttps://ownyourstack.dev/posts/two-screen-gremlins-vs-a-dad-who-weaponised-dns-for-peace-and-sanity/https://ownyourstack.dev/posts/two-screen-gremlins-vs-a-dad-who-weaponised-dns-for-peace-and-sanity/Two screen-gremlins Vs a dad who weaponised DNS for peace & sanity.Tue, 23 Dec 2025 18:20:35 GMThttps://ownyourstack.dev/posts/a-practical-cheat-sheet-of-all-the-fedora-commands-used/https://ownyourstack.dev/posts/a-practical-cheat-sheet-of-all-the-fedora-commands-used/A practical cheat sheet of all the Fedora commands we’ve used so far on our the journey...Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:20:35 GMThttps://ownyourstack.dev/posts/nattdf-magic/https://ownyourstack.dev/posts/nattdf-magic/Fedora 43 post-install setup with Not Another Things To Do Fedora (NATTDF). One script turns barebones into daily driver perfection. Windows power user approved!Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:20:35 GMThttps://ownyourstack.dev/posts/its-time-im-nuking-windows/https://ownyourstack.dev/posts/its-time-im-nuking-windows/Step-by-step guide: Installing Fedora 43 Workstation with full LUKS encryption on both NVMe SSD + HDD - no manual partitioning needed!Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:20:35 GMThttps://ownyourstack.dev/posts/bye-bye-windows-its-not-me-its-you/https://ownyourstack.dev/posts/bye-bye-windows-its-not-me-its-you/A 37-year-old power user finally breaks up with Windows after the Windows 10 end-of-support deadline and discovers freedom on Fedora Linux.Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:20:35 GMT