Readeck is a great tool Readeck is a self-hosted open source read-it-later webapplication. Readeck calls itself "Your Own Content Hub". Save the story, cut the clutter Readeck helps you keep all that web content you’ll want to revisit in an hour, tomorrow, or in 20 years. Readeck uses the slogan "Save the story, cut...

Books and some interesting stuff I read in September 2026 Non-fiction The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow (2021) 704 pages 5 stars There is no doubt that something has gone terribly wrong with the world. A very small percentage of its population do control the fates of almost everyone else, and...

Destroy a range of ZFS snapshots with a single command When you have a number of old ZFS snapshots to destroy, it can be useful to see if you can delete a complete range. A range of snapshots can be destroyed with a single command. This is what the man page says: An inclusive range of snapshots may be specified by...

Books and some interesting stuff I read in August 2026 Fiction Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (2011) 374 pages 5 stars Dystopian science fiction story about a virtual reality world, called OASIS. In his will, the creator has left the ownership of OASIS as well as his fortune to the winner of a conquest. This power...

Jugulans is now developed on Chicken Scheme 6 After upgrading from Chicken Scheme 5 to Chicken Scheme 6 I am now developing jugulans on Chicken Scheme 6. This required only a minor change. jugulans is a text mode mind map application. With it you can build mind maps in the terminal. /- new child | /- creating nodes...

Git branches and Emacs built-in VC Emacs VC Emacs VC is the built-in Emacs version control interface. It is very capable, and its use is intuitive. Emacs VC can be used with practically all version control systems. I have used it frequently with RCS and CVS. No need for Magit For my typical use of Git, VC offers all...

jugulans a text mode mind map application Jugulans is a text mode mind map application. It lets the user build a mind map using just the keyboard, and save it in org-mode format. /- new child | /- creating nodes -----------|- new sbiling | | | \- new parent | | | | /- up | | | |- down |- moving nodes -------------|...

Books and some interesting stuff I read in July 2026 This month I read some though provoking books, a nice science fiction book, and had a lot of fun reading several essays and short stories. The authors of both the books "A Darwinian Survival Guide" and "To Have or to Be?" work from the viewpoint that human life as...

Having fun with Chicken Scheme Switch from Guile Scheme to Chicken Scheme Lately have been dabbling in Guile Scheme. Guile Scheme is very fast and since is it the main development environment for Guix, its popularity is rising. I tried Chicken Scheme because it can create a stand-alone executable. This means that...

Books and some interesting pages I read in June 2026 This month I decided to not finish a book after reading the first 100 pages, so I just finished a single book. The warm weather and outdoor activities resulted in less screen time, but still ran into some fine web pages! Fiction Train Dreams by Denis Johnson...

Start Guile shell script that listens on a port for REPL client Guile, while running a program, can listen to a port for a REPL client, like a Swank server on SBCL. Here's how to connect from Geiser to a running Guile script. Start the Guile shell-script This is how to start a Guile script: #!/usr/local/bin/guile3 \...

Enhanced Motif Window Manager on FreeBSD The Enhanced Motif Window Manager (EMWM) is a fork of the Motif Window Manager with fixes and enhancements. This brings the wonderful look of Motif to the X11 desktop. Virtual workspaces EMWM version 2.0 offers virtual workspaces. The FreeBSD packages contain EMWM version...