https://archdaemon.xyz/Recent content on ArchdaemonHugoen-usSun, 14 Jun 2026 15:41:00 -0400https://archdaemon.xyz/posts/anima-system-heartbeat/Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:41:00 -0400https://archdaemon.xyz/posts/anima-system-heartbeat/<p>I built something weird and useful: a biometric hardware monitor that maps your system&rsquo;s physical strain into an organic, beating heart on your desktop.</p> <p>It&rsquo;s called <strong>Anima System Heartbeat</strong> 🫀, and it turns CPU/GPU load into a real-time visual and auditory pulse. Because why stare at boring graphs when your machine can literally have a heartbeat?</p> <h2 id="what-it-does">What It Does</h2> <p>The project ships two flavors:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Desktop Widget</strong> (<code>kimi_desktop_pulse.py</code>): A borderless, floating heart that lives on your Linux desktop. Drag it wherever you want. Right-click to kill it. It beats faster when your system is stressed, slower when it&rsquo;s idle.</li> <li><strong>Web Dashboard</strong> (<code>kimi_heartbeat.py</code>): A lightweight Flask-based local dashboard with full metric breakdowns and a stylized CSS pulse.</li> </ul> <h2 id="the-nerdy-bits">The Nerdy Bits</h2> <p><strong>Unified Stress Tracking</strong>: It samples both CPU usage and NVIDIA GPU utilization, then uses whichever is higher (<code>max(cpu, gpu)</code>) to drive the pulse engine. This means GPU-heavy workloads (rendering, training, gaming) register just as hard as CPU-bound tasks.</p>https://archdaemon.xyz/posts/universal-linux-oculink-optimizer/Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:25:00 -0400https://archdaemon.xyz/posts/universal-linux-oculink-optimizer/<p>An automated, idempotent system tuning utility engineered specifically for <strong>Small Form Factor (SFF) Mini PCs</strong> running modern Linux distributions (including Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, and rolling-release distros) paired with external graphics infrastructure (<strong>Oculink / dedicated PCIe links</strong>).</p> <p>This engine eliminates aggressive power-state downshifting, bypasses mobile driver thermal throttling, stabilizes LUKS storage hooks, and tunes virtual memory boundaries to guarantee zero-latency throughput for heavy developer compute, deep learning inference, and high-frame-rate rendering.</p>https://archdaemon.xyz/about/Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:00:00 -0400https://archdaemon.xyz/about/<p>I&rsquo;m thedemiurge — a Linux user, and builder of things that shouldn&rsquo;t work but do.</p> <h2 id="what-i-do">What I Do</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Linux Optimization</strong>: I run Linux (CachyOS) on bare metal and optimize it for eGPU workloads. Check out my <a href="https://github.com/scottyad/arch-oculink-optimizer">arch-oculink-optimizer</a> repo.</li> <li><strong>Technical Content</strong>: I write about hardware optimization, thermal management, and building independent technical authority.</li> <li><strong>Independent Work</strong>: I build authority through technical content, not corporate ladders.</li> </ul> <h2 id="this-site">This Site</h2> <p><code>archdaemon.xyz</code> is my digital workshop. I write about:</p>https://archdaemon.xyz/posts/hello-world/Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:00:00 -0400https://archdaemon.xyz/posts/hello-world/<p>This is the first post on <code>archdaemon.xyz</code>.</p> <p>I built this site to have a single place for my technical work — thermal engineering notes, Linux optimizations, and whatever else I&rsquo;m tinkering with.</p> <p>The domain name? <code>archdaemon</code> combines two things I care about: <strong>Linux</strong> (the best open-source operating system) and <strong>daemon processes</strong> (the invisible services that keep systems running). Plus it sounds metal.</p> <p>More soon.</p>