I am a pragmatic web developer from Fryslân.
It has been a while since I wrote about being inspired to start ricing my desktop again. It turns out that having 3 kids and working on the house leaves little time to invest in getting familiar with a new OS and making a pretty desktop. Some nice things came out of it however; I installed Arch (btw) for the first time and it turns out doing the base install is not as intimidating as I thought. I…
A couple of years back I was really into customizing my Linux desktop. I started by using a window manager on my Ubuntu machine at work and customizing it to my liking. I really like a minimal setup tailored to my wishes and I ultimately ended up with Void Linux and the Bspwm window manager on all my machines. Fast forward a couple of years and life happens; I became a father and time was suddenly…
While doing a quick search for a Laravel middleware to remove trailing slashes from URL's, I found some articles at the top of the search results with some naive and incorrect solutions. Let me explain. The proposed solutions looked something like this: <?php namespace App Http Middleware ; use Closure ; use Illuminate Http Request ; class RedirectTrailingSlash { public function handle ( Request…
I have been a happy Void Linux user for a long time now, but something has always been a little unclear to me. Void Linux keeps old kernels around after installing a new kernel and this results in many kernels installed on your system. After a while this results in longer update times because of DKMS module updates. Luckily Void comes with the handy vkpurge utility. But here's the thing: vkpurge…