https://tristonarmstrong.com Senior Software Engineer, father, and husband with a passion for building utility apps and automating the boring stuff. en-US Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:28:26 GMT https://tristonarmstrong.com/blog/android-screen-mirroring-why-linux-beats-macos https://tristonarmstrong.com/blog/android-screen-mirroring-why-linux-beats-macos Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT If you’re still tolerating macOS only because you need reliable Android screen mirroring, it’s time to drop the excuse. Linux users have been enjoying a superior, free, and buttery-smooth solution called scrcpy for years. https://tristonarmstrong.com/blog/the-macos-mdns-bug-why-raspberry-pi-ssh-suddenly-stops-working https://tristonarmstrong.com/blog/the-macos-mdns-bug-why-raspberry-pi-ssh-suddenly-stops-working Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT ssh pi@raspberrypi worked fine until I typed the wrong password a few times. Then one MacBook completely lost the hostname while the other was fine. I was convinced it was fail2ban on the Pi (even though it wasn't installed). Here's the weird macOS cache issue, the fix, and why Linux just doesn't do this nonsense. https://tristonarmstrong.com/blog/the-wayland-ghost-bug-fixing-flatpak-crashes-on-linux-mint https://tristonarmstrong.com/blog/the-wayland-ghost-bug-fixing-flatpak-crashes-on-linux-mint Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT If you switched from Wayland back to X11 and your Flatpak apps won't launch, you've got a ghost socket haunting your session. Here's the fix. https://tristonarmstrong.com/blog/upgrading-to-kiru-v1-a-new-reactive-paradigm https://tristonarmstrong.com/blog/upgrading-to-kiru-v1-a-new-reactive-paradigm Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT A look into the process of updating my personal site to Kiru v1, exploring the new reactive primitives, and adopting the new routing interface. https://tristonarmstrong.com/blog/linux-auto-switch-gpu-modes https://tristonarmstrong.com/blog/linux-auto-switch-gpu-modes Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT This is primarily for asus linux laptops but im sure it can work for others with slight mods https://tristonarmstrong.com/blog/auto-fetch-webapp-icons-on-omarchy https://tristonarmstrong.com/blog/auto-fetch-webapp-icons-on-omarchy Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT The why and how I added some auto fetch logic when installing webapps https://tristonarmstrong.com/blog/omarchy-flatpak-support https://tristonarmstrong.com/blog/omarchy-flatpak-support Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT I go over why I added flatpak support and how https://tristonarmstrong.com/blog/building-zlorb-a-lightweight-ci-daemon-in-rust https://tristonarmstrong.com/blog/building-zlorb-a-lightweight-ci-daemon-in-rust Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT What it took for me to build my own CI-CD and why I did it. https://tristonarmstrong.com/blog/the-netflix-interview-that-didn-t-go-well https://tristonarmstrong.com/blog/the-netflix-interview-that-didn-t-go-well Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT I interviewed at netflix, and it didn't go so well. Here I outline the problems I had. https://tristonarmstrong.com/blog/my-ideal-operating-system https://tristonarmstrong.com/blog/my-ideal-operating-system Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT Here I go over the OS of my choice. What I love, and what I hate about the various OS's I've tried over the years.