Blaugust - Waldeinsamkeit
I've read on a small part of the Fedi that August is "Blaugust Festival" as in "blogging August", a month inviting people to blog more.
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Concerns about the current state of LLM tools - Waldeinsamkeit
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 Unknown7 Feb 202651 human-writing confidence
Happy Trixie Day - Waldeinsamkeit
2025-08-17 UPDATE: added a comment about an upgrade issue I've encountered. Hello everyone, Debian 13 (trixie) has been released.
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown10 Aug 202551 human-writing confidence
Open mailto links with emacsclient - Waldeinsamkeit
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 Unknown18 Jul 202551 human-writing confidence
Quirks about Emacs as a systemd service - Waldeinsamkeit
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 Unknown6 Jul 202551 human-writing confidence
Back to the origins: vanilla Emacs - Waldeinsamkeit
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 Unknown4 Jan 202551 human-writing confidence
De-googling my life: 6 years in - Waldeinsamkeit
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 Unknown30 Oct 202451 human-writing confidence
An experiment: A Raspberry Pi 4 for daily computing - Waldeinsamkeit
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 Sept 202451 human-writing confidence
Owning your own online content - Waldeinsamkeit
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 Unknown28 Jul 202451 human-writing confidence
A life spent updating - Waldeinsamkeit
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 Unknown23 Jul 202451 human-writing confidence
A Commodore Amiga in 2024 - Waldeinsamkeit
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 Unknown11 May 202451 human-writing confidence
I did a bit of fullstack development - Waldeinsamkeit
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 Unknown27 Apr 202451 human-writing confidence
How do I use a search engine? - Waldeinsamkeit
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 Unknown10 Dec 202351 human-writing confidence
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Hi, I am a software developer and this website is a bit of a braindump for topics I care. Writing about them helps me clarify my thoughts and avoids forgetting about them.
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown30 Nov 2023
Strange Loop conference talks I watched - Waldeinsamkeit
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 Unknown11 Nov 202351 human-writing confidence
Poorman visitor counter - Waldeinsamkeit
This website is hosted on Sourcehut Pages, a minimalistic static web hosting offered by Sourcehut.
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown5 Nov 202351 human-writing confidence
Behind a simple Linux shell script - Waldeinsamkeit
Today I wrote a simple shell script to scratch an itch: trimming away advertisements from podcasts files I download.
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown4 Nov 202351 human-writing confidence
Happy 30th birthday, Debian - Waldeinsamkeit
I'm not a Linux distro fanboy nor a distro-hopper, I just use what is reliable. Today I'll pause for a few minutes because 30 years ago, the Debian GNU/Linux distribution was first released (see...
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown16 Aug 2023
Talks worth rewatching - Waldeinsamkeit
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 Unknown1 Jul 202351 human-writing confidence
Selectively install Debian experimental packages - Waldeinsamkeit
I'm using Debian testing with the Sway window manager without the Xwayland translation layer: this means that I am forcing myself to use only pure Wayland application (it's a way to test how the...
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown20 May 2023
A modern mouse for the Commodore Amiga - Waldeinsamkeit
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 Unknown31 Mar 202351 human-writing confidence
WKD added for my email - Waldeinsamkeit
Inspired by this toot on Mastodon, I have added the Web Key Directory files for my email address: this will make easier for smarter email clients to retrieve my PGP public key without having me...
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown15 Mar 2023
Debian: Configuring exim4 for local mail delivery - Waldeinsamkeit
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 Unknown18 Jan 202351 human-writing confidence
Filtering incoming emails - Waldeinsamkeit
In this article I'll explain my learnings about implementing a filtering system for incoming emails.
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown15 Jan 202351 human-writing confidence
Bye bye Guix, see you in 12 months - Waldeinsamkeit
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.
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown8 Jan 202351 human-writing confidence
Thoughts on "Bullshit jobs" by David Graeben - Waldeinsamkeit
"Bullshit jobs" is a book from David Graeben: I'll drop here some quick notes about it before I forget them for good.
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown14 Dec 202251 human-writing confidence
Flashing LineageOS on LG/Google Nexus 5 (hammerhead) - Waldeinsamkeit
Unfortunately the smartphone I was using since 2018 died. Long story short, tried to replace the battery but it does not charge anymore.
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown23 Oct 202251 human-writing confidence
Windows placement in Wayland workspaces - Waldeinsamkeit
I am a Sway user since quite some time. I'd say a happy user but from time to time I encounter some rough edges that most of the time can be solved with some scripting or with a better...
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown21 Oct 202251 human-writing confidence
The conference I'd like to attend to - Waldeinsamkeit
I'd like to pin down some thoughts I had during a conversation with a friend about technical conferences in 2023.
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown21 Sept 202251 human-writing confidence
GitHub to Sourcehut migration tool - Waldeinsamkeit
Hello! I'd like to introduce a new tool. The goal of this tool is to export from GitHub issues, comments and labels and migrate them to Sourcehut issues tracker, todo.sr.ht.
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown14 Aug 2022