Latest work involved putting back an old laptop back to life with a new version of the AntiX Linux distribution which is based on Debian 13 code base. It is a Lenovo G40 AMD A8 with two GPUs, one integtrated and one dedicated with the latter having 2GB VRAM. Instead of throwing it away, I find it useful for mobile computing having the capability to run small LLMs fast with its dedicated GPU with 2GB RAM.
Migrating previous blog posts here starting from 2026-06-16 up to 2026-07-20:
2026-06-16
Overloading My Plate
Been focused on reviewing all aspects of the general field of software engineering and specifics of the Java programming language and related technologies on the backend using Spring Boot for REST API and with Spring Data JPA, Identity Platform, Security, Observability, CI/CD, Cloud, Enterprise Integration, Middleware, Design Patterns, and others.
I got rusty on the algorithm side so I started just recently on the basics of algorithm and its code to awaken my neurons. I started doing this using the Java programming language but I realized it is better to do it recently with the C programming language since both are the same in the code syntax and almost the same in the code semantics except for things like array parameters where in the latter it becomes a pointer.