Open Web Craft

Episode three of my ongoing love affair w/ the MacBook Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015: after elementary OS 6 “Odin” (2021) and Clear Linux (2022), the fanless wonder now runs Omarchy 4—Arch + Hyprland, opinionated, fast, tiling. 🤓 The installation itself: sm…

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How hard can it be, right?

This post is about me dreaming of setting up a container focused development workstation on macOS ARM.

Honestly, immediately from the first day of installing and using Project Bluefin on my Khadas Mind —my daily driver— I’m dreaming of having the same Linux experience as well as Developer Experience (DX) on my Lenovo ThinkPad X13s Gen 1 ARM64 laptop.

Again, not a tutorial but rather some personal notes for future self consumption.

Rather immediately when made available via MNT Shop I ordered the MNT Reform CM4 Processor Module Adapter.

Photo src ref: Protonet Press Materials.

I backed the Kickstarter for Khadas Mind: Your Next-Gen Modular Workstation and today (2023-11-11) recieved the Khadas Mind Premium.

In the process of evaluating case options for the upgrade of a “Poor Man’s Raspberry Pi NAS” from a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2 to a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5 I stressberry-tested the Argon POLY+ Raspberry Pi 4 Vented Case with PWM 30mm Fan.

This is to document my ordeal #EmbraceTheSuck journey and work-in-progress of daily driving a Lenovo ThinkPad X13s Gen 1.

Create a Shell Plus (2vCPU, 4 GB RAM) Shell w/ Debian Bullseye GNOME.

I really, really like the form factor and overall versatility of my MacBook Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015.

Quick write-up of my parallel installation of openmediavaut (OMV) and Nextcloud on Armbian.

The general idea for an Raspberry Pi based portable development setup is not new.

No doubt, I was really—like REALLY—excited when my prefered knife online shop Altonaer Silber Werkstatt anounced that they are stocking micarta scales from Ripps Garage Tech (RGT) for the Zero Tolerance 0230 and Zero Tolerance 0235, both Jens Ansø designs.

Designed and built for personal text journaling and activity tracking on elementary OS.

Some useful commands that I cannot or do not want to remember or that I use regularly: Maintenance sudo apt update \ && sudo apt upgrade \ && sudo apt dist-upgrade \ && sudo apt autoremove \ && sudo apt autoclean \ ; flatpak update

I first tried various early access builds as well as the Betas (1 and 2) in demo mode (a.k.a live)—see screenshot above.

I’ve learned about a nice litle cli utitliy: rmw rmw (ReMove to Waste) is a safe-remove utility for the command line.

I’ve losely followed the project over the years and ultimately backed the crowdfunding campaign on Crowd Supply back in May 2020 and received my DIY Kit in March 2021.

Though clearly NOT recommended, I went w/ patching httpd(8) on OpenBSD (UPDATES 7.0-stable and 7.1-stable ) 7.7-stable (not -current) as recommended by httpd-plus.

I’ve briefly mentioned the tech stack that I’m using for this website.

I’m now using Kirby as the content management system for this website.

I use Kirby, a file-based content management system written in PHP, to edit the content of the 2021 “edition” of my website.

Even though I’m far from switching to bsd as my daily driver I’m eager to have a OpenBSD laptop around.

Just today, I’ve stumbled on Datacake (SaaS).

Also for my main machine (ThinkPad T25), I switched Linux distro from Pop!

Just yesterday I stumbled on the Hacker News post about Sxmo: Simple X Mobile — A Pinephone UI that is simple and suckless.

In recent years I’ve become an avid user of csvkit, a suite of command-line tools for converting to and working with CSV—which for me has become the king of tabular file formats.