Mitja Felicijan's posts

To change the modifier key from Alt to the Win (Super/Meta) key for moving andresizing windows in Xfce:Open Window Manager Tweaks:Go to Settings → Window Manager Tweaks (or run xfwm4-tweaks-settingsfrom a terminal).

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Lua performance in different environments

A quick look into difference in performance when running Lua normally vs Luajitvs Lua embedded in C program.

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Embedding game assets within your executable binary

Why?

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Currated list of Vim ALE linters

Reading materialAsynchronous Lint EngineLet's have a pint of (vim) ale!

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Male and female body proportion reference images

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Use option key as meta in Alacritty under macOS

To use option key under macOS as Meta key use the optionoption_as_alt and set it to 'Both'.

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Write and read structs to/from files in C

First let's define a shared header file for the struct definition.

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Embedding resources into binary with C

Binary resource inclusionpreprocessor has been put into the C23 standard but has not yet beenimplemented by the compilers.

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Sending signals to C programs

For simple and easy IPC to the C program we can use signals.

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Calling assembly functions from C

This is using the portable GNU assembler and TinyCC compiler but GCC or Clangcan be used as well.

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The abysmal state of GNU/Linux and a case against shared object libraries

Personal critiqueThis is in part difficult to write since I have been daily drivingGNU/Linux for 20 years now, but I think it is necessary to be honestabout this.

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Using custom software with Github Actions to deploy a site

By default, GitHub uses Jekyll for their site generator which is fine,but it has some issues and the complexity is not really worth it for me.

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Converting Valgrind callgrinds to SVG format

Lately I have been doing a lot of systems programming and profiling isthe name of the game when it comes to developing good software.

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Uninstall Ollama from a Linux box

I have had some issues with Ollama not being up-to-date.

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Sane default for Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Online edition

I mostly play Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup online on Ohio, USA: cbro.

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Extract lines from a file with sed

Easy way to extract line ranges (from line 200 to line 210) with sed.

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Personal sane Vim defaults

I have found many 'sane' default configs on the net and this is my favoritepersonal list.

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Add lazy loading of images in Jekyll posts

Normally you define images with !

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Using ffmpeg to combine videos side by side

I had a 4 webm videos (each 492x451) that I wanted to combine to be played sideby side and I tried iMovie andKdenlive and failed to do it in an easy way.

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Compile drawterm on Fedora 38

First install two dependencies:sudo dnf install libX11-devel libXt-develClone the repo and compile it:git clone git://git.

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AWS EB PyYAML fix

Recent update of my system completely borked EB CLIon my machine.

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Make B/W SVG charts with matplotlib

Install pip requirements.

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Set color temperature of displays on i3

I have been using Gnome's night shift for a while now and I have been missingthis feature under i3wm.

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Fix screen tearing on Debian 12 Xorg and i3

I have been experiencing some issues with Intel® Integrated HD Graphics 3000under Debian 12 with Xorg and i3.

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Online radio streaming with MPV from terminal

Recently I have been using my Thinkpad x220 more and there are some constraintsI have faced with it.

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60's IBM Computers Commercial

Likely aired during an hour-long program during the 1960s, long commercials suchas this typically aired during hour-long programs.

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10/GUI 10 Finger Multitouch User Interface

Message from 10/GUI team (page 10gui.

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Alacritty open links with modifier

Alacritty by default makes all links in the terminal output clickable and thisgets annoying rather quickly.

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Development environments with Nix

Nix is amazing for making reproducible cross OS development environment.

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Making cgit look nicer

For personal use I have a private Git serverset up and I use GitHub just as a mirror.

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Simple presentations with Markdown

A simple way to make presentations without using desktop apps or using onlineservices is https://github.

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Bulk thumbnails

Make bulk thumbnails of JPGs with ImageMagick.

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Edsger W. Dijkstra Manuscripts ebook

I love reading the original manuscripts of Edsger W.

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Extending dte editor

dte is an interesting editor I startedusing lately more and more.

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Grep to Less that maintain colors

I often use grep to search for todo's in my code and other people's code andthen pipe them in less and I missed having colors that grep outputs in less.

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Easy measure time took in a bash script

In Bash, the $SECONDS variable is a special variable that automatically keepstrack of the number of seconds since the current shell or script startedexecuting.

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