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Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown7 Feb 2026
In this article I'll try to pin down what irks me about LLMs (Large Language Models, sometimes called "AI") tools, a topic that seems unavoidable if you are in IT.
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown10 Aug 2025
2025-08-17 UPDATE: added a comment about an upgrade issue I've encountered. Hello everyone, Debian 13 (trixie) has been released.
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown18 Jul 2025
In a previous article I mentioned the ability to handle mailto: URI (described in RFC 6068) from Emacs. In this article I'll detail how I configured and connected the bits to make it work.
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown6 Jul 2025
I've recently investigated again how to run Emacs as a systemd service. The goal is to start using the emacsclient more consistently, it's a faster way to work with Emacs.
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown4 Jan 2025
After an intense but complicated love story with Doom Emacs started in 2021 I'm back to vanilla Emacs. Here are some thoughts after 4 years of Doom Emacs use.
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown30 Oct 2024
In this article I'll review my ongoing experiment using alternative software applications and services out of the well-known offer of Google, Microsoft and other big corporations.
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown28 Sept 2024
Recently I've started a small experiment: I want to try answering the question whether a modest Raspberry Pi 4 with 4gb RAM could be my daily computing device.
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown28 Jul 2024
In this article I'm going to draft some points on the topic of "owning your own online content". Before getting to the point I'll mention three incidents that recently passed through my radar.
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown23 Jul 2024
While I was doing the routine weekend maintenance of my electronic devices, I paused and thought for a second about what I was doing. How often do I update my stuff?
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown11 May 2024
In this article I'll share some thoughts about using a computing platform which commercially died about 30 years ago, that still survives today in a niche market, thrives thanks to its dedicated...
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown27 Apr 2024
Last weekend I did a bit of "fullstack" development (i.e. a bit of frontend, backend and deployment) using supposedly modern tools in JavaScript (namely NextJS, Prisma for the DB backend and Docker...
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown10 Dec 2023
I was reading about Kagi, a search engine you pay a monthly subscription to use for. Our world is so fucked up, that explicitly paying with money for a service is the only hope to avoid having your...
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown11 Nov 2023
With the end of the Strange Loop series of conferences, I decided to watch some talks from a number of years and write down here some notes.
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown5 Nov 2023
This website is hosted on Sourcehut Pages, a minimalistic static web hosting offered by Sourcehut.
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown4 Nov 2023
Today I wrote a simple shell script to scratch an itch: trimming away advertisements from podcasts files I download.
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown1 Jul 2023
While rummaging and tidying up my backups I've found some archived talks that I watched (and then archived) after suggestions from friends, so now I am going share them again hoping they can be...
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown31 Mar 2023
06-04-2024 UPDATE: Looks like the disconnection issue mentioned at the end of the article could be caused by interferences from other BT/Wireless devices (see this comment on the kickstarter page -...
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown18 Jan 2023
In a previous article I did an overview of how I learned a few tools to tune my emails storage (mostly how to classify them based on their provenance).
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown15 Jan 2023
In this article I'll explain my learnings about implementing a filtering system for incoming emails.
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown8 Jan 2023
In this post I'll detail my attempt to install and play a little bit with Guix, how I failed to become friend with it and why.
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