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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