How I fixed my buggy remote control for our Google Chromecast device
The actual name of the device is actually “Google Chromecast with Google TV (4K)”. It must be one of the worst product names ever.
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Batch rename files in your editor with vidir
I have always used the built in tool :bulkrename in my file manager Ranger to batch rename files and directories. Unfortunately, that feature has been broken for ages now, and I haven’t had much success in finding an alternative that I like and is available in the repositories.
How I fixed my painfully slow decryption process when using GPG to decrypt files
I use qute-keepassxc add-on with my web browser qutebrowser. However. I’ve been experiencing some painfully slow delays when trying to run this command (which is needed to the add-on to work):
How to hide the annoying microphone toast message in Microsoft Teams
It seems like I’m one of those poor souls who’s forced to use Microsoft Teams now. Yay… Teams is a terrible service by a terrible company. We all know it, and I’m not going to rant about it here. I do my best to avoid any negativity on my blog.
Using Neovim as a pager
When I couldn’t find a decent pager that supports basic features like proper theming, I turned to the fediverse for some recommendations. I only received one reply, but luckily enough, it was a really good recommendation. R.L. Dane advised me that I could use my text editor Neovim as a pager like this: nvim -R +"set scrolloff=999" +"norm L".
How to fix clickbait titles when subscribing to YouTube channels via Newsboat
Clickbait titles (and thumbnails) sucks. And those who use clickbait tactics sucks even more! I usually just boycott crap like that. However, I can make rare exceptions, if the content brings enough value to me.
My distraction free way of following channels on YouTube
My distraction free way of following channels on YouTube, is simply by subscribing to them via web feeds. It may sound boring, but this has actually been my workflow for almost a decade now1. Well. With one exception. I did try to use SmartTube, exclusively, for a while, but I found it to be quite stressful in the end.
How to enable real transparency for Conky
I recently started using Conky for the first time, in what feels forever. It was quick and easy to setup, except for one thing; getting real transparency to work. See this example image of how it looked before I got it working.
My keyboard - May 2024
I just realized that I never posted any pictures of my keyboard with my new keycaps. If they still can be considered new, considering it’s been more than two years since I got them.
Neovim changed their default colourscheme in version 0.10.0
I recently updated to Neovim 0.10.0. And as always, I didn’t read the changelog before updating. I can’t really think of any changes that would excite me, but it looks like I should have read the changelog this time though.
How I make YouTube (on the web) less annoying and distracting
There’s no secret that YouTube is an annoying and distracting service to use. Google only care about one thing: you wasting as much time as possible on YouTube. What they don’t care about, is you having a good time on YouTube. A good user experience, seems to mean nothing to them.
How to disable the power button when using elogind
My son, who’s currently two years old, loves to press the big shiny button on my computer case. The button, which happens to be the power button, is surrounded with a glowing blue ring, which probably makes it even more irresistible for a kid in his age.
How I open mailto-links in Mutt with qutebrowser
This is what I did, to make mailto-links open in Mutt, using my web browser qutebrowser. I think, it should work for all web browsers, and I don’t think that you need to anything more than this. Feel free to correct me, if I’m missing something.
My blog now supports plain-text comments
I have always wanted support for comments on my blog, but I could never figure out how to do it, while keeping the website 100% static, and avoiding any complexity or anything that could be considered privacy invasive.
Goodbye Gandi
As a long-term, and satisfied customer, of Gandi’s services, I’m sad to have witnessed them being sold to a greedy company like Total Webhosting Solutions B.V., earlier this year.
My $CURRENT YouTube-subscriptions
These are the channels on YouTube, that I’m currently following. All categories and channels, are ordered in alphabetical order.
I have now retired my Raspberry Pi 2
After several years of service, my trustworthy Raspberry Pi 2 with Alpine Linux, is now retired.
My Desktop - January 2023
It’s a new year, which means that it’s time for another “My desktop”-post. The last one, was back in November 2021. Not much has really happened since the last time.
My thoughts about the Tai-Hao Sunshine Nordic ISO keycaps
This is not a sponsored post. The keycaps has been paid for in full by my partner.
I’m sorry for yesterdays web feed flood
I was setting up my websites yesterday, in a way that will allow me to update and build them via my phone.
I’m considering buying a laptop computer this year
I have never in my life owned a laptop computer, but I’m considering buying one this year. I think it would be nice to have something portable that I can carry around with me. Something that I can simply hook up to a battletop station at home, where I have access to a proper keyboard.
How to replace libinput with evdev for sane mouse control
I try to be pragmatic and open to new things, but some things are just hard to embrace. Especially when they’re bad. One of these things are libinput.
My Keyboard - January 2022
It’s been exactly four years since I built my last keyboard. It has been a good keyboard that has served me well over the years, but it was time for a long awaited upgrade. I’ve been waiting for any keyboard switch manufacturer to release a light, linear and smooth switch, preferably at an affordable price. And that’s exactly what Gateron recently have done. Finally!
I’m back with Gentoo
I’m a Gentoo user who recently decided to try an alternative Linux (and binary based) operating system, something that would require no maintaining what so ever. I ended up choosing the most boring operating system that I could think of, which is Debian. And while it started out good, Debian would only last about two months on my computer.
My phone - November 2021
I just made a ‘my desktop’ post, why not make one for my phone as well.
My desktop - November 2021
I decided it was time for a new “my desktop” post. It’s actually been one year since my latest post, simply because my desktop doesn’t see that many changes these days. Which I assume is a good thing? Anyway. I think there’s been just enough changes the past year to make it worth making a new post now.
How to install pipe-viewer in Debian
pipe-viewer is a lightweight, but yet feature packed application for browsing and watching videos from YouTube.
I’m now running Debian
I installed Debian 11 on my computer the last weekend. I have come to the conclusion that I want to try something that’s both super simple to use and maintain. Something that works more like a classic binary based operating system, and not like a meta based operating system that’s designed to be a set of tools to help the user build their own operating system.
How to use yt-dlp instead of yt-dl with mpv
I interact with YouTube using the text-based client pipe-viewer. I then watch any video using my favourite media player mpv. This has always worked perfectly fine thanks to mpv supporting youtube-dl, which unfortunately, now seems to be an abandoned project.
How to launch Steam games using Rofi
I recently figured out how to launch my Steam games from the shell today. This means that I can now start my games via my application launcher Rofi.
Distraction free writing in Vim with Goyo
I can’t believe that I’ve forgotten to write about one of my most used Neovim plugin ever. The plugin I’m talking about is called Goyo.
I’m back with qutebrowser
Back in August, I wrote about how I was tired of QtWebEngine and that I was switching to Firefox with Vimium to emulate a similar mouse-less workflow. Well. That didn’t last long.
How to automatically hide your mouse cursor
unclutter-xfixes is a tool to automatically hide your X mouse cursor when you don’t use it. unclutter-xfixes is a fork of the original tool unclutter from the 90s.
I have now replaced Mailbox with Gandi
I have been using Mailbox.org since January 2021, and while their service succeed with the core features as a reliable privacy-friendly email service, with support for all the basic features like two-factor authentication and filters, they still leave a lot to ask for.
How to show the battery level of your Bluetooth mouse in the shell
UPower is an abstraction for enumerating power devices, listening to device events and querying history and statistics.
My list of recommended systemd-free Linux based operating systems
Not everyone likes systemd. While it’s a great operating system, it lacks a proper init system. ;) Anyway, I thought it would be a good idea to compile a list with some of the more popular systemd-free alternatives out there.
How I clean my home in an eco-friendly fashion
I use something rather old school. Green soap! It’s a pine oil based soap that’s all natural, environmentally safe, non-toxic and it has been around in the Swedish homes for more than 125 years now.
How I create fancy PDF-documents in Markdown
I haven’t had the need to create any ‘fancy’ document in ages, but the other day I had to create a PDF-document with fancy formatting for a work related thing.
I’m now using a binary kernel with Gentoo
Yesterday when I was using the tool diff to compare the changes from my current minimal custom kernel configuration to the new kernel configuration that came with the latest kernel in Gentoo, I thought to myself: “Is this really worth it?”.
How I automatically run things after waking up my computer
Some time ago, Gentoo deprecated pm-utils, which didn’t come as a surprise considering it hasn’t been updated upstreams for 11 years now.
How to add shadows to transparent images using CSS
This is an transparent image that I made in Inkscape. The shadows is added with CSS.
Better URL management in NeoMutt with urlscan
There’s one thing that doesn’t work ideal in Mutt or NeoMutt; URLs in messages. While my terminal emulator URxvt supports URLs and I can copy and open URLs, it’s not an ideal workflow when there’s a bunch of URLs in a single message.
How and why I compile the QMK keyboard firmware in Alpine Linux
I haven’t touched the firmware on my keyboard for a couple of years now, but the other day I decided it was time to make a few minor tweaks to it.
How I use temporary keybindings for spellcheck in Neovim
I use my text editor Neovim for everything, and I really mean everything. I even use it for inputing text on the web via my web browser qutebrowser and it’s of course the editor I use for all my emails. This also means that I commonly use the spellchecking feature all the time.
My keyboard — May 2021
This is the story about the time when I spent a lot of money and almost upgraded my keyboard. Heh..
How to select all text in qutebrowser using Ctrl+A
This is really not a complicated thing to do, but it took me a while to figure out how to bind the command vvG to a key like Ctrl+A.
Twitchy is dead — long live Twitchy
I recently wrote about wtwitch, a CLI-client for Twitch. It was my replacement client for Twitchy when it died and stopped working.
Forecast - A simple Bash script for the weather service Yr.no
Some time ago, my rather old (zsh!) script for checking the current weather from the weather service Yr.no broke, after some looking around I found a new alternative called Forecast.
How-to: Coloured manual pages
It’s easy to take a lot of things for granted when you’ve been using them for longer than you can remember. Coloured manual pages is one of those things.
How I print my text documents with fancy colours
I often read my plain text documents using cat. For the most part that works just fine, but for some larger documents—especially documents with documentation that contains a lot of headers, lists and folds—it can be somewhat difficult to read the document.