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[drop_cap]E[/drop_cap]ver since Omarchy Quattro released a few days ago, the web has been abuzz with hype around this ambitious update focused on making the most “malleable” operating system. It’s been somewhat of a meme for a while now that Omarchy isn’t a “real” distro but just DHH’s Arch/Hyprland dotfiles, and while I never particularly agreed, […] The post Omarchy Quattro Is The WordPress Of…
[drop_cap]M[/drop_cap]ost scam and phishing emails these days get flagged pretty consistently by inbox providers. Your run-of-the-mill bad actor blasts their missive over disposable VPS boxes or compromised machines until IP reputation gets burned. Eventually Gmail or Yahoo just puts them onto a blocklist, so you won’t even see them in your spam folder anymore, they [ ] The post DNS Debt: How…
[drop_cap]B[/drop_cap]ackground radiation in space is a crazy thing. At any given moment cosmic rays, mostly protons and heavier nuclei flung out by exploding stars, punch straight through the hull of a spacecraft and through an astronaut s eyeball. Can t do much about it. Apollo 11 s crew reported seeing flashes of light on the way to the [ ] The post Your Logs Are Crawling With Ants appeared…
[drop_cap]W[/drop_cap]orking on non-US keyboards can be challenging when common tools and specs expects standard layouts. For example, I use a German keyboard which has a bunch of fun quirks: Y and Z are swapped @ is typed with AltGr (right Alt) + Q double quotes ( #34;) are on Shift + 2 forward slash (/) on [ ] The post The Backtick That (Almost) Broke Me: Fixing German XKB Dead Keys on Linux…
[drop_cap]T[/drop_cap]here is this strange affectation that comes with using tiling window managers: EVERYTHING has to be a hotkey. If you don t wield a gazillion keybinds you are failing in the Way of The Tile. Don t want to memorize five-finger chord contortions just to launch your music player? Skill issue. Git gud. I think that s a [ ] The post A Minimalist Quickshell Dock For Hyprland…
[drop_cap]A[/drop_cap]dobe isn’t exactly a beloved company these days. People begrudgingly use their stuff, because the Creative Suite is an industry standard (read: monopoly) or there are simply no worthwhile alternatives, not because anyone is genuinely excited about these tools. I’m happy to report that I (mostly) make do without Adobeware these days (shoutout to Photopea), [ ] The post Your…
[drop_cap]T[/drop_cap]here s a type of writer who just writes. That ain t me. Hand-cutting and gluing books to sell after readings. Uploading home-made PDFs to an FTP server at 2am. Spending hours in Berlin print-shops agonizing over the perfect glue-binding for a short story collection. The writing was never enough I always needed to control the whole thing, [ ] The post Building My Own Markdown…
[drop_cap]I[/drop_cap]t’s no secret that minimalist tiling window managers and “full-fat” desktop environments are deeply at odds with each other, both in form and function. That’s why usually when someone wants to get started with Hyprland the recommendation from the Council of Greybeards is: start from scratch (set up a new machine), or at least use [ ] The post Fauxmarchy: A Sacrilegious…
[drop_cap]I[/drop_cap] never understood all the hype around Obsidian as second brain , and the way some people throw around the German word Zettelkasten like some obscure grand cru vintage. As if the gritty business of memorization had a dress code. (By the way, the German Z here is a hard ts , not soft z as in [ ] The post Vault Dweller: How I Ditched The Cloud For A Pi And A Git Repo appeared…
[drop_cap]I[/drop_cap] built my first home page in 1996 in Microsoft FrontPage. It looked like a digital ransom note, but it was mine. Instantly accessible from anywhere in the world, without permission, like global graffiti. In the early 2000s, like many others, I learned CSS by endlessly customizing MySpace profiles. Turns out learning to type the [ ] The post I Went Back to Boring Web Dev, and…
If you need a color picker regularly enough but not every five minutes, keeping a widget on your panel 24/7 may be overkill. I prefer a global hotkey that triggers a picker and stays hidden otherwise. And we can hook right into the default KDE color picker, no need for additional packages. The Solution: KWin [ ] The post How to Create a Global Color Picker Hotkey in KDE Plasma (Without Widgets)…