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Temporarily Defeated on the Third Day

published: October 16, 2025 estimate: 1 min read view-cnt: 2 views

Expected: posting articles for 30 consecutive days
Actual: defeated on the third day and started whining

Good News: Complaints Also Count

I was trying to post something constructive today — something about counting words recursively
in nested folders on a daily basis, just to see how my laziness outperforms productivity.

Meanwhile, I also planned to revive my un-bootable tablet today (solving a fossilized to-do is always good for mental health).

The takeaway is:

• I spent too much time installing Linux Mint on a dead Surface 3 tablet (which couldn’t boot into Windows).
  • The only real technical issue was running apt update to get the audio output working.
  • The rest was just me being stupid.
• The LLM wasn’t giving me the quality of code I wanted.
  • I tried prompting it with “implement it using the Unix piping philosophy,”
  • but the result was still far too verbose.
  • I finally got it right, but not before midnight.

END OF COMPLAINT

Hope everyone enjoyed it 🤣. I’ll try to post the word-counting script tomorrow.

Teaser: it might be the most technical post I’ve made so far.