Lapiduz on Weekend Linux Warrior

Building a mail app

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 16:30:00 -0400

Every time I install Linux, I eventually end up using Thunderbird as my email client. It works fine. It does most of what you’d expect from an email client.

But it never quite feels right to me.

Computers stopped being fun, so I went back to Linux

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:30:00 -0400

For as long as I can remember I’ve been running Linux on my servers, but on the desktop only ever in short bursts. My main laptop has been a Mac for twenty years, and I don’t have a grievance story about it. What happened was slower than that: the machine got heavy. An M1 Pro with 32 GB of memory is a workhorse, and it still felt like it was carrying something I could never point at, which was hard to square with a workload that is mostly a browser and a terminal. On top of that, whenever I wanted to change how something behaved, the answer was more often that I could not.

About

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m Diego. During the week I work on developer platforms, meaning the tooling and infrastructure other engineers build on top of, with a lot of it lately pointed at security and AI. On weekends I run one server in a closet and write down what happens to it.

What I'm running

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Push to main and a Semaphore runner applies the playbook within fifteen minutes. If it isn’t in the repo, it doesn’t survive a rebuild.