It has been a little over a month since I set out to improve my focus and attention span by setting myself a few rules. I'm on a plane without wifi and with my notebook so I thought I'd write a bit about how each rule has worked out and how my overall progress is. TL;DR: I've adjusted to this new normal, with less...

I finally managed to get my 2017 Macbook up and running on Omarchy. (Yippie!) One of the first things I wanted to get sorted was syncing files quickly between my main Macbook (M1 2020 Macbook) and my Omarchy (the 2017 Macbook) This article goes through how I did it. First I needed to allow for external login on my...

Here's my review for one of the most praised indie games and Metroidvanias of all time!

It's weird when a post leaves your small circle of acquaintances and goes somewhere else.

The US ruled the “remedies” to be applied to Google in the case where the company was found guilty of monopolistic practices in the search market: Prohibition from entering or maintaining exclusive contracts relating to the distribution of Google Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, and the Gemini app Requirement to...

Reiseführer aus der Bib ausleihen. Kleine Sprachkunde, Land und Leute, Geschichte und Heute. Danke auf Bulgarisch? 48h vorher einchecken. Überlegen, welches Entertainment ich mitnehme: Buch, E-Reader, ein paar Serienfolgen in Plex herunterladen, vielleicht ein Urlaubsspiel auf einer tragbaren Konsole? Packen. Neue...

The news that Typepad is shutting down raised some eyebrows in my corner of the internet. Typepad was a bit of a niche service, but it was an interesting attempt at both democratizing and monetizing blogging. While it’s sad that it’s going away—I am anti-linkrot, and “your account will be permanently deactivated” is...

I am always down for a good sport movie. This one is unique as it breaks a stereotype in India that wrestling is only for men. Its about a former wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat who trains his daughters for Olympics. Both daughters in the beginning resist but later understand the struggle of their father and accept...

Me he dado cuenta que han pasado ya unos 2 años desde que decidí abandonar Twitter, bueno, X, pero para mi siempre fue Twitter. Fue una decisión que venía debatiéndome desde hace un tiempo, pero cuando la tomé fue en una de esas tantas migraciones de usuarios enojados con la dirección tomada por Elon Musk, en mi...

Animated musical scores are quite common on YouTube, for educational and promotional purposes. This article explains how to create one, using OpenShot and other Linux tools.

ho deciso di chiudere la mia monoistanzina GoToSocial: mi ci sono trovato benissimo e credo sia stato un esperimento molto figo, ma diciamo che il mio problema è col fediverso nel complesso...

The Fediverse is full of great people who post great things. I bookmark some of those, and I’ll dump some of the funniest and coolest ones here. Expect some geeky fun right here. How about a Comic Sans MS-influenced monospace font, for all your programming needs? Or a bunch of tools by Calishat related to web...

Eleven and a half years ago, I built my first RaspberryPi weather station using sensors from Tinkerforge. Today, I shut it down for good. Not because it failed — but because its job is done. It’s been replaced by a Netatmo setup, and unfortunately, I don’t need it anymore. But admitting that a project’s lifespan […]

Here, read the intro of the Wikipedia page for Command pattern with me: In object-oriented programming, the command pattern is a behavioral design pattern in which an object is used to encapsulate all information needed to perform an action or trigger an event at a later time. You know what I call this? A function....

When I think about the times when I dealt with injuries as a tennis player, they weren't always easy. In particular, when I was growing up, I struggled a lot with wrist injuries. Part of that was because I used my wrists for a lot of things: typing, writing, playing piano, and of course practicing tennis for hours....

So, a couple months ago I started on Lyrica, which made me super fatigued and didn’t help with my pain any. And I got super frustrated about not being able to get anything done.