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Austin’s view on AI, Life, Art and Happiness.

Reflections on the intelligence we build, the life that happens around it, art that helps us see differently, and the small practices that make happiness more durable.

From the notebook

Worth taking time with.

Drawing of an old aluminum laptop running a terminal-based Linux desktop, with a mint-green plant-like signal growing from its keyboard.

31 Aug 2026

Giving a 2017 MacBook Pro a Second Life with Omarchy

How I turned an almost-decade-old Touch Bar MacBook into a lightweight Linux and AI-development machine—and what the first installation taught me about EFI, hardware dependencies, and using the computer you already own.