Here I put some notes, cool discoveries, and other technical stuff. Just like the rest of the blog, it is mostly for me, but if you’ll find this interesting, I’d be super happy!
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Read more...Buying a proper webcamera can turn out pretty costly, so why not fetch your old camera from a cellar and plug it into your laptop? How hard can it be?
Read more...I have a modern LG TV connected to a PC via HDMI. I use this setup for coach-based gaming and watching movies. However, the latter has a major usability issue: you can’t just pause playback with a TV remote, you need a mouse or a keyboard nearby. Because of this I have to use a wireless mouse and keyboard, but there should be a better way of doing this, right?
Read more...This is a rant on An open letter to language designers: Kill your sacred cows post. Please read it first if you want to make any sense out of this.
Read more...I use two browsers in my daily life: Chromium for work-related stuff and Firefox for everything else. This helps me to keep a strict separation between these two worlds, including: logins, bookmarks, history, settings (e.g. proxy, synchronization), etc. Let’s see how to make a default browser switch automatically to the correct one.
Read more...Linux is a great OS, but its default behavior is usually optimized for servers. Since more and more developers use it as their main operating system, I thought that it would be nice to share several useful daemons that will make this experience a bit smoother.
Read more...Do you have work and personal emails? Ever wondered how to make Git automatically use the correct one? This simple trick will help enlarge you productivity x10!
Read more...I prefer to switch tabs in my browser with a mouse wheel and this is an important part of my workflow. It’s so much easier to shove a mouse pointer to the top of a screen and do a single scroll rather than reaching for a keyboard to press Crtl+PgUp/Down or hunting the desired tab with a cursor. Unfortunately it doesn’t work in Firefox by default… Let’s see if we can fix this!
I heard a lot of discussion around the “How to make money on opensource?” topic. This is something I don’t get completely, as at seems obvious, so I’ll dump my thoughts here.
Read more...GPG is a very complex tool. However, to sign git commits you only need a handful scope of it. This post will show you how to set up and manage your GPG keys with ease.
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