BodgeOS BodgeOS pt.5 It is once again the last weeks of the year and I felt like messing with BodgeOS again to see if I can get my laptop in a state where I can use it at FOSDEM.
Linux Using a Blackmagic Design camera as wildlife camera I've noticed a squirrel occasionally coming through the garden and I wanted to capture it.
Linux Don't pick weird subnets for embedded networks, use VRFs Don't pick random subnets to avoid IP address conflicts on foreign networks, use VRFs!
Megapixels Megapixels 2.0: Small fixes and GTK breakage There's steady progress towards Megapixels 2.0 Alpha 2 with a lot of small improvements, but there's also a massive roadblock introduced by the GTK developers...
BodgeOS BodgeOS pt.4: A working browser Getting Firefox to build and work in BodgeOS took quite a bit of effort.. and patience..
Linux BodgeOS pt.3: Graphical desktop Just before the end of the year I managed to get BodgeOS to a graphical desktop environment.
Megapixels Megapixels 2.0 alpha release Finally after a lot of work I felt it was a good idea to close off this year by tagging the first actual release of the Megapixels 2.0 codebase.
Linux BodgeOS pt.2: Running on real hardware Continuing on my December puzzle of building a toy Linux distribution from scratch. This time getting it to boot up on an actual computer instead of just a container.
Linux Conjuring a Linux distribution out of thin air A few days ago I got a new laptop and once again had to make a choice of what distribution to install
Linux Building a timeseries database for fun Building my own replacement for my InfluxDB and Prometheus setups
Linux Making a Linux-managed network switch Sometimes the custom 5-port gigabit switch _is_ the solution.
Linux Bootstrapping Alpine Linux without root sudo chroot without sudo... and mostly without the chroot
Megapixels The dilemma of tagging library releases The dilemma of releasing a half-working library early to promote contributions.
Linux The MNT keyboard reviewed MNT Research is an open hardware manufacturer based in Germany. I'll have a look at their open standalone keyboard.
Linux Looking closer at the syslog I did a deep dive in Linux logging protocols for writing logbookd. Here are some of the results.
Megapixels Megapixels 2.0: DNG exporting One of the things that is very broken in Megapixels 2.0 is actually saving pictures, so here I will embark on a side-quest to make a new DNG exporting library that moves the code out of Megapixels.
Megapixels Adding hardware to libmegapixels Let's dive a bit deeper in the config files and how to make them and more importantly, how to sustain this.
Linux Making an USB Ethernet adapter work [SR9700] Figuring out hardware solutions to software problems
Linux Configuring Blackmagic Design converters in Linux A look at Blackmagic Design converters and controlling them with third party software.
Linux The end of the nice GTK button A look into my favorite Adwaita button and why I'm not happy it's going away
Linux Going IPv6 only How would the current internet function when you're on a native IPv6 host without any IPv4 instead of using any of the IPv4 workarounds? Find out with a few firewall rules!
Linux Running Octoprint on the PinePhone Running Octoprint and a camera stream from the PinePhone to remotely control a 3d printer
Linux Installing plain Alpine Linux on a Rockpro64 Installing Alpine Linux with the postmarketOS kernel on the PINE64 Rockpro64
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