Static generators for picture galleries

Pi-KVM is a very interesting project. It allows you to build a fully functional KVM over IP solution using cheap hardware and open source software. Source at Github: pikvm/pikvm The KVM supports virtual CD-ROM and virtual flash drive too. You can power on / off the server via ATX power …

New hardware doesn't always have working drivers in FreeBSD. The developers do a great job, but there are not enough of them. On the other side, it seems like hardware companies pour out an endless stream of new hardware every month.

I wanted to see if I could use a …

When I first started learning git, Learning git branching was a great way for me to understand how things works. As it turns out Resources to learn Git has a lot more, all of it useful.

CudaText looks nice. A lot of features, and written in Pascal too. If I set $EDITOR correctly, it will let me edit my blog posts too, directly from the Makefile. Perhaps I should spend some time learning it.

Ok, middle button (mouse) paste doesn't work out of the box, instead …

For some reason, the simple theme was broken, at least on my machine. So I downloaded pelican-themes and changed to the tuxlite_tbs theme. Also, I need to set ${EDITOR} on my machine. Broken seems to be a theme here...

Update: but now I need to do cd ..; git clone --recursive …

Currently the user of a smartphone have very little control over what data he or she shares, and who gets access to data data. The best option today is to assume that everyone who has asked for access to any of your data, has, in fact, acces to /all/ of …

I find it interesting that we now have Anbox and Darling in addition to Wine. I have used Wine successfully in the past, even with a usb label printer once (which didn't follow the usb specification well and misbehaved under Linux and *BSD). Today, the only Windows applications I need …

Often I find articles about useful tools online, that I need to find back to later. Page dewarping by Matt Zucker (code on Github) is one such article. It will be useful for scanning old documentation. His noteshrink tool and Compressing and enhancing hand-written notes article is also interesting, perhaps …

The article Run your own social which I found via BoingBoing is interesting. If you put the question of why anyone would want another time-thief in their life (yes, a new service will come as an addition, not as a replacement) it explains a way to do it, not only …

Long time since I posted here. Time has passed, and now Pelican 4.0.1 is out, I installed that on my new workstation (along with a few other missing tools). That's all.

Ok, it seems I managed to break it again. Will this change fix anything?

As it turns …

I found another git cheat sheet, which looks very nice. Found at git - the simple guide.

Also, Pro Git is an entire book about Git, available under a Creative Commons license. Cool!

Alternatives to Github, some offer a hosted experience, some requires self-hosting. Check out Gitea which requires Go, GitLab, Bitbucket by Atlassian, GitPrep which calls itself a Github clone, Kallithea, Phabricator which is used by FreeBSD among others. There are probably more as well.

For some reason, the submodule ("output") had a detached head, and no matter how much I tried

git submodule init
git submodule update

the HEAD was still detached. In the end, I just changed into the output directory and did a git checkout master - the existing content was going to …

I should check out Landslide, Marp, pandoc, Hacker Slides and other Markdown-powered slide generators. Not my idea, I read the article 4 Markdown-powered slide generators by Scott Nesbitt. All inspiration comes from there.

Landslide is (mostly) Python which is nice. Marp is an Electron app, so a bit "heavier" on …

There are two slightly different git "cheat sheets" that you can download from Github, one blue and one green in color. The blue one refers to Github Training while the green one refers to Github Education. Also, contents and wording is slightly different between them. Still, they are both useful …

Ok, I have figured out how to get date the Makefile in Windows, using powershell and a powershell script. The script is simple

get-date -UFormat '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'

yes, that is all. From the Makefile, I run it as

powershell -File .\ScriptDate.ps1

the Makefile fragment looks …

As the original article says; you have to commit and push the output directory before pushing the source files. Don't forget it again!

Installing Pelican on Windows is quite easy. You need Python of course, then it is just 'pip install pelican' followed by 'pip install MarkDown' and Pelican is installed. All this from PowerShell.

Unfortunately, my setup uses a Makefile (originally I set up this under Linux). So I need make, the …

The lack of news here just mirrors the fact that I am busy doing other things. Nothing to worry about.