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Typing the title hurts my feelings. I'm not gonna lie, 20 years… My journey into Linux has been full of ups and downs over the years. From the days when I had no single idea of what I was doing (I was 11 at the time), to when I migrated my Windows Server 2003 to CentOS, to today, when I installed NixOS on my gaming computer. It’s stupid but it makes me nostalgic to think about this today. Computers have always been extremely important to me. They helped me feel intelligent, feel like I had something to show, and forget the intimidation. As a young troublemaker, all I was interested in was: Logic games, Movies, Music, and Cartoons. And guess what allowed me to consume all these things? Yes, computers. So learning to understand them has always been fascinating to me. Now, having a bachelor's degree in computer science and working full-time as a software developer shows me that none of this time was lost.

I've been running my Meep app for a couple years now and logging all my board games game into it. It has worked fine but one thing was constantly annoying me; I couldn't use 1Password with it. Actually, I could, but I needed to enter each field and add space then remove it to trigger the message dispatch, pretty annoying. Then I saw a friend of mine trying to register with its password manager and failed and I thought, alright, enough.

A couple of years ago I heard about this thing called a "Smart Mirror". Lots of geeks online were building those by putting a PC monitor in a frame, setting up MagicMirror on a Pi, and voilà. I found the project interesting but my lack of "money" kept me back. Now I don't have that much more money, but I do have a monitor that I won't be using anymore, a Raspberry Pi, and a father that is used to woodworking.

I can't really tell in which mood I am. To be honest it's like being in trance for the last 3 days. I woke up wanting to code on my project, I ate thinking about how I want things to be and I fell asleep reasoning on how I will implement my features the next day. I never felt this way about developing apps and I think I finally discovered why. I'm using great tools.

Ah, finally. I wanted to start a blog for a year. I tried a lot of things. And I wasn't completely sure what I wanted in the end. I knew I wanted a website where I can show off things and have my own personal website. As a developer, I also wanted to write some code and not use an all-in-one setup.