I’ve been running BTRFS as my root filesystem for a while now, mostly for the snapshot support. Snapshots are one of those features that sound nice in theory and then quietly save your evening the first time a package update goes sideways. What I hadn’t gotten around to …
A few weeks ago I wrote about why I built my own static site generator instead of just installing one. That post was mostly the origin story: four sites, four different publishing quirks, and me deciding to reinvent the wheel on purpose. What it didn’t cover was the actually …
I run four small personal sites. For years they lived on whatever publishing system seemed sensible at the time, which meant every one of them ended up on something different. One was hand-rolled HTML I edited directly. Another had picked up a full blog engine along the way. None of …
Back in 2018, I wrote about setting up ii (IRC it), the wonderfully minimal filesystem-based IRC client from suckless. The core idea is brilliant: use standard Unix tools like tail and echo to chat on IRC. But honestly? My original setup was pretty clunky and manual.
Seven years later, I …
The Sway window manager is a tiling Wayland compositor inspired by i3, offering a lightweight, keyboard-driven experience for Linux users. It’s an excellent choice for those who prefer minimalism, configurability, and performance. Here’s a step-by-step guide to setting up Sway on Arch Linux.
Before diving into the …
Are you ready to supercharge your coding workflow and boost productivity? Say hello to Vim – a powerful text editor that may seem intimidating at first, but with a bit of effort, can transform the way you work. In this blog post, I’ll explore the key features of Vim, with …
Back with a Windows tip!
If you’re experiencing network issues on your Windows system and you’ve tried disconnecting and then connecting back to a network and you still do not have internet access (your system will be connected to a network but you can’t access the internet …
Another quick and simple Linux tip, if you have multiple JPG image files and would like to convert them into a single PDF file then ImageMagick is your friend.
Let’s say for example you have four imag files anmely: image1.jpg, image2.jpg, image3.jpg and image4.jpg, to …
If you like information overload and you have a thing for stats, then you can generate a detailed battery report on your windows system with the help of the powercfg program on a Windows system.
You can generate a battery report on Windows by running from the cmd line or …
You’ve got a new Windows 10 machine and like me, swiftly replaced it with a Linux OS - I run ArchLinux on mine, and for whatever reason, you want to retrieve your Windows 10 Product KEY.
Microsoft incorporates the use of a digital license to activate Windows 10 so you …
Back after a long hiatus, what a year 2020 has been and we’re not even done with it yet!, anyway, life as people say must go on and so, I am back with another Linux quick tip.
This time, I’m going to show how you can print from …
This is post no 3 in the general software tips series.
Let’s say you have two or more PDF files lying around that you would rather they are all in one single PDF document, then you can use Ghostscript to merge your multiple PDFs.
Make sure you have Ghostscript …
This is the first on the general software tips series, just a quick tip on how to join two images together in GIMP.
File > New; create a new image with an image size that is bigger than the combined size of the two images that you are combining File -> Open …
After taking some months off to deal with a little thing called ‘life’, this blog has now been woken up. Will be making some postings to the blog at least once every month so time to despair, its happening folks! :-).
