It all started with a new matte photo paper. I wanted to test it using Ansel , as it is my current photo editing software. After selecting my demo image, I headed to its Printer atelier but there was no preview of the photo. After realising that the printer was off, I tried again but Ansel was still unable to detect it. My first idea was to add it to KDE. New problem: KDE printer settings were…
In the previous post , I was debugging a discrepancy between the local preview of this blog and the published version. To figure out what was going on, I had to use the Docker image that the CI uses to build the site, so I decided to give Podman a shot, to try using rootless containers. The problem was that I couldn't get Podman to build the image or run other containers. Considering that…
A couple of weeks ago I noticed a minor but annoying bug on this blog: my previous post did not match the preview I saw when I was writing it. More specifically, the strike through text on footnote 2 was not struck through. I re-checked the preview in case I had changed something before publishing but the line appeared in the preview. Maybe there's a difference when actually building the…
Some context As the title indicates, this post focuses on creating backups with btrbk , "a backup tool for btrfs subvolumes". btrfs is "a modern copy on write (CoW) filesystem" . One of btrfs' main features is the ability to take snapshots which have some neat features: Btrfs is a copy-on-write filing system designed to allow point-in-time snapshots of the filing system (or individual…
About a year ago I decided to have my own website/blog. After watching this video I decided to build a blog using ssg and its sibling rssg . ssg is a static site generator written in POSIX shell, taking posts written in Markdown and using lowdown to convert them to HTML. This initial version was coming along until I came across Zola , another static site generator, written in Rust. I've…