IncludeIf: A digital space written in pencil

TL;DR HTMLElementSugar provides declarative attribute definitions, template handling, component aliases, and configuration inheritance — all while staying close to vanilla web components.

Answer If you expect your machine to boot with a GUI and it doesn’t you might need to look at which Display Manager (aka dm) you have installed: dpkg -l | awk '/^ii .

TL;DR Git is going to have (or by now has – via 2.54.0) a new, well, sorta, new feature called git-hooks which you can define in your configuration.

This is a small article about a thing I made because I was fed up with having to mkdir -p all the time.

TL;DR Bum is built on three principles: small composable scripts that do one thing well, guardrails that protect you from destructive operations, and gitconfig as a runtime database.

Answer Open a terminal and type in man update-alternatives and look for --install.

TL;DR Tired of port juggling and certificate headaches?

Someone on Reddit asked how you can maintain your own version of application while also being able to upgrade packages without getting conflicts between your changes and Debians changes.

TL;DR Twenty years of desktop environments — WindowMaker, KDE3, fvwm, i3 — and the lesson is always the same: consistency beats aesthetics.

Answer It’s kinda complicated. i3 exposes a scratchpad_state on every node, but it is not relevant for the node you initially check.

TL;DR This is a rant, a developer war story of how to use docker to work around a problem that shouldn’t exist in the first place.

Zsh has regexp-replace, you don’t need sed: autoload regexp-replace regexp-replace line '^pick' 'f' Also, instead of hard coding values, use zstyle: # in your .zshrc zstyle ':xyz:xyz:terminal' terminal "kitty" # in your script/function local myterm zstyle…

TL;DR Searching for CLI modules on MetaCPAN returns 1690 results.

Answer You can configure grub via several ways to use a specific kernel or you can configure grub to use the latest one, or you can tell grub to pick one from a selection.

For those running a development version of git from master or next, you probably have seen it already.

TL;DR I didn’t like how the default zsh prompt truncation works.

In the zshell you can use CORRECT_IGNORE_FILE to ignore files for spelling corrections (or autocorrect for commands).

TL;DR Rebase is a tool used while developing.

Answer I use xscreensaver and to forbid it: !

I needed to have some defaults available in my i3 configuration and was using LightDM.

TL;DR I built a dynamic workspace loader for i3wm that lets me switch between multiple context-aware workspace groups (like “Client”, “Company”, and “Personal”) without losing state.

I came across a post tagged both #cli and #webdev, titled “Build Your First CLI Tool”.

Mixtapes used to be simple: record, rewind, scribble on the label.

TL;DR If you are using git tag --contains=<commit> but it becomes unworkable due to a flood of CI-generated tags, you can fix it by setting tagOpt = --no-tags in your configuration and by using negative refspecs, which limit the number of tags you are fet…

TL;DR Deb822 .sources files have become the default way of configuring apt on new Debian installations.

This is a small how-to to add an (encrypted) disk to an LVM Volume Group (VG).

TL;DR Most guides tell you to hack your .ssh/config to manage multiple Git identities and SSH keys — we strongly advise against this.

Note: This is a republication of an article I wrote a couple of years ago on Medium in 2020.

Dotfiles, every Linux/Unix user has them.

Note: This is a complete rewrite of an article about the bum git toolkit, originally posted on Medium in 2019.