Forbidden Scrolls

From the Archives - thoughts on code, craft, and the cosmic unknown.

The rituals of the n-th survivor

· 10 min read

The problem: I have a vast array of items - numbers, in fact. What is needed of me is to ritualistically perform n-th remaining element severance. Repeatedly. Using such methods like splice came to…

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The curse of Linear-Cursor MCP connection

· 4 min read

I needed Linear in Cursor on Linux. The OAuth flow almost works, which is worse than it cleanly failing.

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The curse of Playwright CLI and Chromium on Arch

· 5 min read

I needed playwright-cli for agent browser automation on CachyOS. It failed immediately, not because Chromium was missing. It was looking in the wrong place...

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