I get way too much ‘kick’ out of a good font, and the Nerd Fonts project has been doing an awesome job at combining about every monospace font with glyphs/icons from FontAwesome, Devicons etc, for use in vim, terminal prompts and more. Of course I combine my frequent use …

Today I got an email from the Google Search Console about a page, or pages on dammIT that are “Duplicate without user-selected canonical”. That generally means that a website has two (very) similar pages that contain the same content, without having a element in the duplicating pages …

Are you tired of doing everything by hand, having to remote into a build server to switch to that certain user account, then type in a bunch of commands, looking them up in your shell’s history? Or has your CI failed you again? Is the company behind it forcing …

I’m worried that this is going to be seen as a reason to not take “CRITICAL” disclosures seriously at first glance like we should. A “CRITICAL” bug MUST be treated as if it was critically bad. From a community health perspective, people have been told that something really bad …

Good piece on how a (hardware) supply chain is something completely different from the software stack what we tend to call a ‘software supply chain’, but which really is not. The problem is mostly that the providers of the moving parts that people (read: companies) are so dependent on and …

Canonical has a crush on snap. I don’t. In Ubuntu 22.04 they replaced the native Firefox package with a snap package, making it slow and limited. It doesn’t have to be that way. Mozilla’s Firefox team has their own PPA for Firefox. As they use the …

According to manpage, the column command “columnate lists”. In simple words, the column is a simple utility that can format your output into a column format (rows and fields) based on the structure of your source file. The column command is part of the util-linux package.

shorberg | I think total war got confused... ↪ | it thinks I have, 133 758 976 MB of VRAM tadzik | it's possible if M stands for mili ↪ | this many milibytes is just over 128 megabytes shorberg | :P ↪ | let's hope it doesn't actually try to use that much aquatix | the OOM killer likes …

After my piece on projectM last year, I installed it on several computers, not really thinking about extra .milk preset files (which contain the animations). Today, after some short searching thinking there might be more out there, I found this little gem of a collection: Presets Collection – Cream of the …

If you are even remotely using the same workflows as me, you will be using vim quite a bunch, and not limited to one machine with a given operating system. You might also have taken a liking to YouCompleteMe to serve as the code/word completion solution of choice. The …

Recently we got a DVD. After turning it around in our hands a few times and giggling at our reflections, we ordered an external USB DVD/CD eater so we actually could ingest some of its contents. As the hip techy people we are, having this material available to us …

It is no secret that I keep a journal (it might not be very well known too, but it is private anyway). It is not a fancy hard copy journal that some talented people fill with really neat doodles and such, but rather a boring collection of Markdown-formatted text files …

For years I’ve had Google Analytics and a self-hosted Piwik/Matomo instance to keep track of visitors. Fun fact: I barely ever looked at the stats. Other fun fact: my own presence did not even register, as my adblocker denied the requests to both. Yeah. It wasn’t a …

I just merged a new version of my trusty old NS API Python library. Last year I would have thought to not be touching it for quite a while, as nowadays I’m in the luxurious position of being able to bike to work and not wanting to do basically …

I like taking pictures, and having some of the nicer ones as a background to my daily computer shenanigans is a nice extension of this. Lately, I’ve been playing around a bit with having pictures show up differently (more abstractly, with less details so they distract less, like those …

Today I came across the forum post Don’t report bugs, contribute to bugs hunting about more directly helping (open source) developers help you. Developers really try to write working solutions and like Aurélien Pierre notes: We are the developers. That means we can guarantee you that the software works …

You might be in that same situation as I was until recently: you open up your ssh config file and start scrolling through the long list of nicely aliased private machines, that organically grown list of work - project A and the comment-section-divided work - project B, work - misc, work - are these …

After having one of our Hangouts videocalls, I started looking into why the browser plugin takes so much CPU-time (and makes the laptop hot and breezy in the process). Is stumbled upon the article How to tell if you’re using hardware acceleration and dove into my own about …

While I was standardising my dotfiles I wanted to have an easy and quick way to update my projects so repositories weren’t out of date when I wanted to use them (for example when being offline on the train), and I didn’t want to go through them by …

Lately my work laptop has been acting up a bit after installation of a graphical driver went wonky. As I’m running a beta of Ubuntu Gnome on it, I don’t blame anything but the flux in which the packages exist for the moment, so I took it in …