# elric (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover elric. Page: Feed: --- ## [AwesomeWM on Fedora 43](https://blog.melnib.one/2026/02/17/awesomewm-on-fedora-43/) _2026-02-17 · Elric rambles_ It’s been a few years since I last wrote about getting AwesomeWM to work on a new machine. But since I just got a new machine, I had to jump through a few hoops again. Hopefully this little post can help the next poor sod out. I started from the Fedora i3 Spin , which seemed like the most lightweight X11-based Fedora Spin. I dnf installed the awesome package, restored my rc.lua… ## [My "at" scripts](https://blog.melnib.one/2025/10/25/my-at-scripts/) _2025-10-25 · Elric rambles_ There was an interesting discussion on HN about personal scripts . Lots of fun tidbits! My comment about my “at scripts” was quite well received, and people seem to find this useful every time I bring it up, so I figured the topic probably deserved its own blog post. At what? “At scripts” ( @scripts ) are what I call the rather large and motley collection of… ## [Remove @Generated annotations when using the OpenAPI client generator](https://blog.melnib.one/2025/06/20/remove-@generated-annotations-when-using-the-openapi-client-generator/) _2025-06-20 · Elric rambles_ The OpenAPI Generator can generate a Java client based on an OpenAPI spec. Super useful for integrating with any sort of REST(-ish) API. I typically check in the generated client, in part because generation can take a while, but also because I like being able to track changes in the generated code. Unfortunately, the generated code contains some unnecessarily verbose metadata, which make it… ## [Encrypted storage with CryFS](https://blog.melnib.one/2025/04/17/encrypted-storage-with-cryfs/) _2025-04-17 · Elric rambles_ Secure file storage is something that’s high up on my list of priorities. All my data is encrypted at rest, mostly using LUKS. Some of my data, however, is synced to various devices using remote file systems (think Nextcloud or Dropbox). I enjoy having a bit of security on top of those services, because I don’t always trust where the data is stored. For many years, I accomplished… ## [Poor man's HAProxy SSL debugging](https://blog.melnib.one/2025/03/03/poor-mans-haproxy-ssl-debugging/) _2025-03-03 · Elric rambles_ I spent way too much time debugging a hairy reverse proxy connectivity issue. Turned out a misconfiguration on my part resulted in the wrong certificate being presented by default. This was very much non-obvious, because there were multiple proxies in a row, and only one of them was under my control. Being able to log which certificate HAProxy was presenting was very helpful. It took more… ## [AwesomeWM on Fedora 41](https://blog.melnib.one/2024/11/30/awesomewm-on-fedora-41/) _2024-11-30 · Elric rambles_ X11 (Xorg) continues its slow death march in favour of the newer Wayland. My window manager of choice, AwesomeWM , only runs on X11. I’ve been using it since ~2008, and I hate pointless change. Every time I get a new laptop or upgrade an OS, the chance of it no longer working increases. Installing AwesomeWM on Fedora 41 was as simple as ever, just install the awesome package.… ## [InheritableThreadLocal and Bugs](https://blog.melnib.one/2024/10/14/inheritablethreadlocal-and-bugs/) _2024-10-14 · Elric rambles_ I was at Devoxx last week, where I enjoyed several talks about the new and upcoming Concurrency features in Java. Maybe I’ll do an overview of those in a future post, but if I’m being honest, they’re already pretty well described elsewhere. In one of the talks, the speaker mentioned the venerable InheritableThreadLocal , which reminded me of an interesting bug I’d…