Unfiltered notes on life, dev experiments, tooling, and the mental clutter of being a solo operator. Minimalist, reflective, and possibly sarcastic.https://www.anca.wtf/en-ushttps://www.anca.wtf/posts/when-the-board-treats-people-like-pawns-corporate-errors-in-judgement/https://www.anca.wtf/posts/when-the-board-treats-people-like-pawns-corporate-errors-in-judgement/A brutally honest reflection on the corporate trend of replacing experienced employees with cheaper alternatives, and the hidden costs it brings. From lost expertise to demoralized teams and the quiet rebellion fueling a new wave of ethical innovation, this post challenges the short-sighted logic of price-only competition in tech.Wed, 16 Jul 2025 11:11:52 GMThello@anca.io (Anca Emcken)https://www.anca.wtf/posts/geometries-of-difference/https://www.anca.wtf/posts/geometries-of-difference/Corners cut, curves bend — and nothing quite fits. A short meditation on form, mismatch, structural intent, and geometries that resist resolution.Wed, 28 May 2025 11:09:52 GMThello@anca.io (Anca Emcken)https://www.anca.wtf/posts/i-needed-a-different-space/https://www.anca.wtf/posts/i-needed-a-different-space/Leaving corporate after years of pushing for systemic change, and choosing a slower, more personal path — blending documentation, web work, and herbalism into a space that reflects what I value, not just what I know.Thu, 08 May 2025 12:27:00 GMThello@anca.io (Anca Emcken)https://www.anca.wtf/posts/how-to-replace-a-plain-shiki-integration-with-expressive-code-in-your-astro-markdoc-setup/https://www.anca.wtf/posts/how-to-replace-a-plain-shiki-integration-with-expressive-code-in-your-astro-markdoc-setup/To Shiki or not to Shiki, that is the question. The latest Shiki update broke my setup and I had the perfect excuse to try out Expressive Code. But it doesn't come with support for Markdoc. It's custom-component time!Sat, 10 Aug 2024 16:11:39 GMThello@anca.io (Anca Emcken)https://www.anca.wtf/posts/from-netlify-to-cloudflare/https://www.anca.wtf/posts/from-netlify-to-cloudflare/In an effort to simplify my life and workflow, and reduce some costs, I'm moving my blog & domain from Netlify & Namecheap to Cloudflare Pages and the Cloudflare registrar.Wed, 24 Jul 2024 20:11:39 GMThello@anca.io (Anca Emcken)https://www.anca.wtf/posts/dropping-astro-markdoc-for-the-super-smooth-astro-markdown-obsidian-setup/https://www.anca.wtf/posts/dropping-astro-markdoc-for-the-super-smooth-astro-markdown-obsidian-setup/The Astro Markdoc integration will not work for me as long as it doesn't use the `.md` extension. The Astro experience with plain ol' Markdown and my Obsidian is so good I can't imagine sacrificing it for anything less capable.Tue, 11 Apr 2023 18:29:29 GMThello@anca.io (Anca Emcken)https://www.anca.wtf/posts/adding-necessary-features-in-the-astro-markdoc-blog/https://www.anca.wtf/posts/adding-necessary-features-in-the-astro-markdoc-blog/Astro Markdoc doesn't have feature parity with Markdown yet. Here are my Astro Markdoc solutions for linked headings, table of contents, external links in the Markdoc body, Shiki code blocks with a custom theme, and more.Mon, 10 Apr 2023 18:19:39 GMThello@anca.io (Anca Emcken)https://www.anca.wtf/posts/configuring-obsidian-and-astro-assets-for-markdoc-content-in-an-astro-blog/https://www.anca.wtf/posts/configuring-obsidian-and-astro-assets-for-markdoc-content-in-an-astro-blog/Converting the blog to Astro was a more significant win than initially expected. A bit more time with the documentation of Astro, Obsidian, and Markdoc, and things went 100% green. On all counts.Mon, 10 Apr 2023 13:19:39 GMThello@anca.io (Anca Emcken)https://www.anca.wtf/posts/first-impressions-on-building-a-blog-with-astro-obsidian-and-netlify/https://www.anca.wtf/posts/first-impressions-on-building-a-blog-with-astro-obsidian-and-netlify/I've struggled to keep my blog up-to-date in the past few years. The reasons for that are many. They say it's not a good idea to convert a hobby into a job because you'll end up not liking your hobby. While that is partially true, my main reasons were technological in nature. Round hole, square peg type of thing. By switching to Astro with Markdoc, I hope to solve my problems.Wed, 05 Apr 2023 17:50:10 GMThello@anca.io (Anca Emcken)https://www.anca.wtf/posts/kill-a-stray-process-on-linux-using-lsof/https://www.anca.wtf/posts/kill-a-stray-process-on-linux-using-lsof/Sometimes local servers get naughty and fail to exit with a signal. They end up occupying a port, and that isn't very pleasant. Here's how to kill them using lsof.Tue, 04 Apr 2023 11:35:21 GMThello@anca.io (Anca Emcken)https://www.anca.wtf/posts/rip-garden-planner-other-news/https://www.anca.wtf/posts/rip-garden-planner-other-news/Developing a PoC of the garden planner was fun, but then I got a full-time job as a technical writer, got busy re-doing the garden, and much more.Fri, 26 Aug 2022 17:38:12 GMThello@anca.io (Anca Emcken)https://www.anca.wtf/posts/garden-planner-switching-to-clojure-script/https://www.anca.wtf/posts/garden-planner-switching-to-clojure-script/I have liked Clojure since the first day I met it. This week, for the first time, I went seriously far from evaluating a few expressions in the REPL.Fri, 06 Dec 2019 12:45:11 GMThello@anca.io (Anca Emcken)https://www.anca.wtf/posts/garden-planner-the-tech-stack/https://www.anca.wtf/posts/garden-planner-the-tech-stack/Last week, I set out some goals for the coming period, and I have achieved some of them, in part. A more important outcome of the past week is that I am getting actionable "data." I can now make a proper plan.Wed, 27 Nov 2019 17:56:45 GMThello@anca.io (Anca Emcken)https://www.anca.wtf/posts/garden-planner-hiccups/https://www.anca.wtf/posts/garden-planner-hiccups/As I started digging into plant data on the web, I found that there wasn't any API that gave me what I needed. But that was only a problem because I made it one. Here's part two of the journey to build my own (virtual) gardening tool, where I strip it down to basics. We iterate for a reason!Fri, 22 Nov 2019 10:53:15 GMThello@anca.io (Anca Emcken)https://www.anca.wtf/posts/when-worlds-collide/https://www.anca.wtf/posts/when-worlds-collide/As a passionate gardener who just got her first garden in over 20 years, I was happy to start digging and get dirty. But, like when you build software, when building a garden, you need a plan. You must find solutions for all kinds of problems. The www is poor in terms of free garden planning solutions.Mon, 18 Nov 2019 12:14:47 GMThello@anca.io (Anca Emcken)