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I usually don't write about browsers, as I don't really care about them. I've been using Firefox for a long time, and I'm quite happy with it. But recently, I stumbled upon Zen, and I was quite impressed with it.

Around a month or so, I wrote a post about how I started using Zed as my new code editor, and why I like it so much. And now, after using it for a month, I've decided to write a follow-up post about it, and how I feel about it now.

Up until very recently, I was using Visual Studio Code as my main code editor, and I was quite happy with it. And I even used VsCode (and it's forks like VSCodium) for a long time, and I actually never used anything else for a long time, nor did I want to.

Then, I stumbled upon Zed, after hearing seeing a few people talking about it on Mastodon and other groups I was in. I decided to give it a try, and I was quite impressed with it.

I've used macOS ever since I got my new device, which is well over a month now. It went pretty great, but I've started to want more and more to go back to my "home" system, which is Linux.

Not too long ago, I was browsing YouTube when I stumbled upon a video that caught my attention. The video was from FireShip, about a recent change in the pricing of a popular serverless hosting platform, Vercel. That got my attention, and I decided to watch the video to see what the fuss was about. It was about a Vercel customer was surprised to get a $96K serverless bill after their app went viral. The video was quite interesting, and it got me thinking about serverless hosting. I have been using Vercel for a while now, and I have been quite happy with it. A few weeks later it turned out that Cloudflare Pages also had similar drama.

Aplós has been a project that I have been working on for a while now. It has been a great learning experience for me, and I have learned a lot from it. Since the start of the project, a lot has changed in terms of how the general structure of the project is, and it's next steps.

Recently, I got myself an MacBook Air, my first MacOS device. Since when I got it, I planned to switch to Asahi Linux, but due to the lack of support for Thunderbolt (that is neecessary if you have a laptop with 3 ports from which 2 are Thunderbolt), I decided to stick with MacOS till the support is there.

I have been using MacOS for a bit now, and I have some thoughts about it.

As you may know, I recently launched a new project named "Aplós" – a VitePress theme that introduced me to the world of "Markdown" on the web.

Until then, I wasn't a fan of Zola, Jekyll, VuePress, and all these 'blog' static engines. In fact, I wasn't fond of VitePress initially; it seemed confusing. However, Aplós changed my perspective on static engines and led me to the point where I rebuilt my website using both VitePress and Aplós.

I had a bunch of problems with my old website, and I thought it's time for something new, something simpler.