Snamellit

Motivation I have an old Intel macbook 12 of begin 2016, one of the so-called "Retina Macbooks".

Screenshots in Sway with Guix Home Manager A blog post documented an elegant way to configure screenshots in wayland using grim and grimshot.

Background Like a lot of people I've had a long history managing passwords and secrets over the years.

Samba or CIFS file sharing is a finicky area at best, but widely used, especially since it was heavily pushed by Microsoft in the Windows ecosystem, This makes it widely used in corporate and NAS environments and even for Linux file sharing.

Refactoring my Emacs Config It is time to work on my Emacs config.

Table of Contents Managing Secrets using Pass Installation GUIX Debian, Ubuntu et al Emacs Integration Enable the Unix Password Store.

Table of Contents Install Cuirass in Guix Create a postgresql server Enable the cuirass service Enabling the Web Frontend Submitting jobs Figure out a more elegant way to submit jobs Install Cuirass in Guix I had a hard time installing cuirass on my syste…

Terraform Deployments Terraform allows infrastructure to be defined to deploy applications and other solutions as code and supports a plethora of on-premise and cloud deployment targets.

Table of Contents KeePassXC from flatpak Allow access to the socket file keepassxc-proxy Configure Chrome Configure Brave Configure Firefox references KeePassXC from flatpak More and more browsers are coming packaged in containers like flatpak or snaps.

Inconsistent output in REPL When doing the examples in the Practical Common Lisp book I had confusing output in the repl when prompting the user for CDs using SBCL. ; Dedicated output stream setup (port 46185) ; Redirecting all output to this MREPL ; SLY…

Intercepting Bluetooth Keyboard Events I like keyboards and I like custom keyboards.

For reasons I keep a set of machines where I regularly work on in sync so they offer a familiar environment.

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Welcome to Snamellit

Brilliant design.

Why I have been using Emacs in WSL2 using an X server running in Windows and that works fine as long as long as the computer does not go to sleep.

Each time I login using the PIN of my Microsoft account, my mounted folders on the NAS are not mounted.

I'd like to blog more notes on stuff I do and it would be nice to have a smooth workflow in my editor of choice.

I have some latex templates to format documents to create fancy formal looking PDF versions of my plaintext mode documents I create in org-mode in emacs, well spacemacs actually.

I configure all apps I can to use vim keybindings.

Environment variable have gained a lot of importance since the rise of the container based deployments and (consequently) the popularity of the 12 factor app.

There are essentially 2 methods for compiling Gtk apps using msvc compiler and .LIB files using "gnu" backend and msys2 libraries It is a pick your poison situation, the first option requires unpacking zip files and organizing stuff so the rust compiler c…

Ubuntu contains a nice notification system to talk to the user about noteworthy events.

Preparing Plone to start the WebDAV service and setting the permissions to allow the users to make use of it is only half the battle, actually using it, especially from automated systems like build servers is another struggle.

2011-07-22 Fri 16:33 Figure out proxy settings Linux Ubuntu has a Network Proxy chooser which allows you to select a location (a la MacOSX).

Dotfiles, can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.

Overview and Goals We build our solutions mostly on Ubuntu Natty and we deploy to Debian (currently lenny).

Org Mode can use the idle time to correct time tracking entries.

The Mac has a great utility called Divvy to easily map windows to loacation on the screen using the keyboard.

Not a big thing, actually for me it is.

Recently our sonar installation on our Hudson CI choked again, this time with an error I have not seen before.

Since we write a lot of stuff for use in the production side of the business we need to comply with rules which allow effective control that the processes and procedures have been followed.

I went to the PMI Benelux Day today.

Lately I hear a lot of Java bashing from a very vocal part of the Linux community.

Something I already knew became suddenly clear today : the product or product pieces in the WBS and the relation to the activities.

In java6 there is a bug in the 64-bit linux version of the jvm which causes eclipse to crash when opening projects with some aditional plugins installed.

The symptom is that after starting sometimes there is some blurp dialog and afterwards the Tip of the Day dialog appears.