Systems from 1s and 0s
AppImage is one of many popular “image”-based packaging options for modern Linux distros, along with flatpak and snap. I chose to package my software project with AppImage because the software is written in Go with Wails. It produces a single binary,...
In a world dominated by cloud-based software... it's still useful to set up custom synchronization and backup solutions! In my case, this necessity presented itself while using both Logseq and Obsidian, powerful and popular offline-first knowledge ma...
GNOME Shell is the graphical shell of the GNOME desktop environment: the default interface of the popular Fedora Linux distribution, and one of great prominence in the larger ecosystem. It allows the use of extensions to modify its behavior, which so...
We're fortunate to live in a time of abundant, high-quality free and open source software—and the best part is, much of it can be self-hosted on your own server 🏠 As a follow up to my article on reproducible distro configuration, let's explore how t...
Inspired by my previous project, lighten, I experimented with automatically updating a laptop screen's brightness using a webcam rather than a dedicated sensor. This required determining the ambient light level via a captured webcam image—with all th...
Making a terrarium with an Arduino-powered artificial sun
Welcome to the world of RPMs! The RPM Package Manager is a powerful package management system utilized by modern Linux distros such as Fedora and OpenSUSE. Despite the vast repositories of RPM packages readily available, you may desire to use some so...
Or how I learned to stop worrying and use custom shell scripts
I use git for version control in the development of my software projects. As it's frequently the case that I'm the sole developer of these projects, I've adopted a simple trunk-based-style branching strategy in which I make new commits to a devel bra...
