Posts

• November 20, 2023: Setting Up a Self-Hosted Authoritative DNS Server With PowerDNS ~;~ I have been using Cloudflare for over a year now for multiple domain names. I wanted to migrate away from that, and chose to self-host DNS using PowerDNS. PowerDNS provides multiple types DNS servers, …
• November 15, 2023: The Triboard, a Tiny 34/36 Key Wired/Wireless Split Keyboard ~;~ My second split keyboard, this time without bloat!
• September 24, 2023: Controlling a SHARP CE-125 Thermal Printer From 1982 Through WiFi ~;~ When I was small, my father gave me a sharp CE-125 pocket computer / thermal printer combo he bought when he was in high school. The pocket computer was a great device: it could be programmed in BASIC …
• July 23, 2023: Renn.es Was Down for Eight Hours Because of an Automatic Docker Update ~;~ This is why you should never enable automatic routine updates
• July 12, 2023: Making a Headless Arch Linux Installation Medium ~;~ Today I needed to install Arch Linux without a display connected to the computer (an old thinkcentre used at Renn.es for backups). This is a quick tutorial for anyone else who needs to do this. If you …
• June 30, 2023: Getting My AWS Account Deleted ~;~ Recently I have tried to delete as many of my online accounts as possible to reduce my personal data footprint. A few weeks ago, I wanted to delete an AWS account. Here’s how it went.
• June 21, 2023: Adding Git Status Information to the ZSH Prompt ~;~ I thought I would share my Zsh prompt here, mainly the part that shows the git status.
• June 20, 2023: Getting LibreOffice to Work With French on Fedora Linux ~;~ It’s easy but hard to find
• June 3, 2023: The Best Way to Take Notes ~;~ Why I think Orgmode is the best way to take notes, and how I use it.
• May 22, 2023: Qutebrowser Is Cool ~;~ Yes it is
• May 8, 2023: Bringing Back the Minimal Web ~;~ A call to action to bring back the minimal web and how we can achieve it
• February 27, 2023: Making a Split Keyboard From Scratch With Ergogen and QMK ~;~ This post is about my journey to make my own (highly inefficient, but already better than standard) split keyboard.