craftyguy's blog

I recently found a mobile data plan from a company that provides service internationally with an eSIM.

About 1.5 years ago, I left my full-time job at Igalia to work on postmarketOS.

After nearly 15 years of using lightweight tiling window managers (i3wm, then Sway), I've recently made a rather significant leap: I've switched to using the COSMIC desktop environment from System76.

It has been just over 1 month now since I have decided to leave my $dayjob at Igalia to work full-time on postmarketOS (announcement here), and I thought it might be fun to share some of the things I have done in the first month!

When I bought my Steam Deck over a year ago, I purchased the basic model with a very unassuming 64GB eMMC module for primary storage.

In my unending quest to move the configuration for everything I manage into version control, I was always annoyed with configuring DNS providers.

I use Home Assistant (HA) to control my WiFi-enabled thermostat, which in turn is walled off from the Internet.

A developer's nightmare: a day dominated by meetings.

This was my first time attending FOSDEM, and it was a really neat conference!

This is the average amount of natural gas burned by my water heater to heat about 1 hot shower's worth of water.

Debugging problems during software development can be frustrating, even if it's immensely rewarding once you eventually figure it out.

Scenario: Congratulations, you won the lottery!

This is a really short, simple thing I use to alert me when a long-running shell command/script, like building (some) containers or compiling the kernel, is done.

I recently needed to compare two binary files (ISO images) in order to debug why one ISO would boot with legacy BIOS and the other wouldn't, even though they were presumably generated by the same tooling (turns out they weren't exactly, but that's not what

This is more or less a story about how one can attempt to debug an application crash by attaching to it with gdb and poking around, while resisting the urge to build the application manually.

I recently started trying to figure out network booting for aarch64 single board computers (SBC), such as the Raspberry Pi, for a new CI I've been helping out with at my Igalia day job.

Blocking Facebook, and similarly-toxic sites/services, is a common theme amongst those who value privacy.

I recently started looking at some shell scripts that run fine on big fast powerful systems (i.e. x86 laptops/desktops), but quite slowly on small slow devices.

Due to a current lack of usable Weechat relay clients on Linux that work well with mobile display sizes, and a lack of free time on my part to write one, I've come up with this simple (albeit not elegant) way to "run" Glowing Bear in a way that doesn't ta…

Running a mirror for postmarketOS is fairly simple, and it allows you to alleviate some pressure from the main pmaports mirror if you're installing from pmaports often...

I recently acquired enough quality parts to upgrade my road bike's drivetrain from 9 speed to 10 speed.

Recently I've been helping out with a fork of mmsd (located here) since MMS is, unfortunately, a crucial thing I need working on a phone in 2021.

Update: See part 2 for a better solution.

Well, the previous attempt to solve this problem was a bust, for the following reasons: The template only applied to new mails, not replies The round trip thing where messages had to get filed on the server, then pulled down again by mbsync was slow and a…

One interesting change from Purism recently was to enable something called "ship mode" on the Librem 5's USB charge controller chip.

I purchased a Garmin Edge 130 last year to use for recording cycling trips, one of the main reasons for choosing this device was that it didn't require any special/proprietary software for accessing recorded activities or adding tracks.