I use a lot of old machines. I'm typing this article on a Dell D630 running a Core 2 Duo T8300 with a whopping 4G of RAM. I have a second one with a T7700 that's otherwise identical. I love these old systems for a lot of the same reasons …
read moreDesktop Configuration Management with Ansible... and Git!
A couple months ago, I wrote about how I had started using Ansible for desktop configuration. I still do, but it's a bit more nuanced now than it was then. There's a few reasons why, but really the most important one was that making any sort of configuration change ended …
read moreRust in the Kernel: Is It an Issue?
Starting this one with another disclaimer, I'm not a Linux kernel developer (though I have worked on kernels before) and my knowledge of Rust mainly lies in application programming. If that's a deal breaker for you, skip this one. If it's not and you want to hear yet another random …
read moreTesting Novel Software Configurations Using QEMU
Since late 2009, I've been volunteering at the church I attend. I started by simply running the mixing board and recording the church service audio, but as time went on my role has expanded greatly. I've since started managing some of the computer systems surrounding the A/V system, for …
read moreWhy Oh Why Did I Fork DWM?
I started this fork a long time ago. In college, I wanted to change the color of the titlebar as my laptop battery's state of charge changed. I wrote this after patching a bunch of things, and after discarding some of the formatting that the Suckless folks …
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If you read some of my other articles, you might be able to guess that my systems are all set up in a pretty unique and custom way. I use my own window manager, a copy of Emacs that's heavily customized, I use my own photo system, while this post …
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I recently bought my grandmother a new PC, just this past year. She had been using a mid-2007 iMac 24". The Mac enthusiasts among you may realize how out of date this is. It last received software updates in 2018, and ever since it's whined about a pending OS update …
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