mega — Muhammad Mega Nugraha, computer science undergraduate. Fine-tunes small language models on small budgets. Self-hosts on servers that should not work, but do.

mega [--caffeine LEVEL] [--budget ZERO] [--sleep HOURS] [--deadline DATE]

mega is a human process that converts coffee and deadlines into software. Runs best on Arch Linux. Known to ignore cloud bills until they compile into something larger.

Primary interests:

• small language models and fine-tuning
• self-hosting and zero-budget infrastructure
• desktop Linux (Arch + Hyprland)
• writing about all of the above

--caffeine LEVEL    Operating temperature. Default: too high.
--budget ZERO       Forces creative architecture decisions.
--sleep HOURS       Optional flag. Rarely passed.
--deadline DATE     Main performance optimization. Do not remove.

mega fine-tune — Distilled Reasoning w/ Regex Pain Llama 3.2 3B fine-tuned on DeepSeek-R1 traces. Exit status: regex said 0.09%, LLM-as-a-Judge said 60%. The thesis advisor lives in the gap.

mega portal — Zero-Budget Village Portal Next.js, Firebase, Cloudflare R2, Zero-Trust. The client asked for WordPress. They got a distributed system instead.

mega backup — Passive-Aggressive S3 Backup Browser Monaco Editor, DigitalOcean Spaces, Cloudflare Access. Built because teaching someone Coolify was not an option.

mega deploy — CI/CD on a 2GB Potato Server Zero-downtime deploys on a $5/mo VPS. Git atomic symlinks, systemd cgroups, R2 backups.

mega ssh — Browser-Based SSH (Keypairs Optional) Wetty, Cloudflare Tunnel, Access, Google OAuth. Apache Guacamole rejected: 11GB memory leak.

hyprland-widgets(1) — Rust Widgets for Hyprland Tauri, hyprctl, evdev. Looks great. Saves zero minutes of work.

winapps(1) — Microsoft Word on Arch Linux Winapps, libvirt KVM. Spite is the secret ingredient.

lazypub(1) — Light Novel Translator Tauri app. Parses EPUB files with AI. Weeb-adjacent.

gotth-press(1) — Blog Engine Go, Templ, Tailwind, HTMX. 99 Lighthouse score. 14MB binary.

Fresh from the build farm. Source available, warranty void:

inertia(8) — x1nx3r/inertia Keyboard-driven mouse for Hyprland + keyd. Hold super+hjkl to steer; the longer you hold, the faster it goes. Single-process design because held keys stuck on in every previous attempt.

proxymaxxing(1) — x1nx3r/proxymaxxing Pretends to be your staging environment via split-tunnel VPN sorcery. One local binary against fourteen microservices. Stop being paid to watch pipelines.

gitdash(1) — x1nx3r/gitdash GitHub PR dashboard for an office TV. Material 3, dark theme, Kanban board readable from across the room. Plays a sound when something you care about happens.

r2-object-thrower(1) — x1nx3r/r2-object-thrower Image upload site backed by Cloudflare R2. Tells you how much free tier you have burned before Cloudflare asks for your firstborn.

yet-another-slightly-cooler-to-do-app(1) — repo Four transparent Tauri windows in a trench coat pretending to be a productivity suite. Task dock, keystroke visualizer, music pulses. For people who rice more than they work.

linux-wallpaperengine-ppd-aware — fork Fork of linux-wallpaperengine that polls dbus for PPD and UPower states, so animated wallpapers pause when you are on battery. Your CPU thanks you.

Longer output, lower signal-to-regret ratio:

• Cognitive Debt: If the Silicon Thinks for You, Then What Are You?
• One Must Imagine Sisyphus at the Slot Machine
• LLMs and How They Made the Dumb Me Feel Like a Genius

$ mega --self-test

commits that broke production:        100% DV*
code written between 11pm and 3am:    approximately all of it
hours automating a 5-minute task:     10 (and counting)
cloud bills currently ignored:         2
times said "i'll fix this later":      infinite

exit code: 0 (allegedly)
* Daily Value based on a 2000-line diet.

blog(1) — x1nx3r.dev linkedin(1) — /in/muhammad-mega-nugraha instagram(1) — @x1nx3r mail(1) — monmega110@gmail.com github(1) — github.com/x1nx3r

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Report bugs by email. Response time depends on how long the coffee has been sitting. Patches welcome, blame is not.