Voxxed Days ZĂĽrich 2023
Mar 16, 2023
Voxxed Days Zürich 2023-03-16 Today I attended Voxxed Days Zürich . Voxxed Days are a series of technical conferences for developers, affiliated with the legendary https://devoxx.com . Future events…
Java JDK Source Code in Visual Studio Code
Jan 29, 2023
Java JDK Source Code in Visual Studio Code I’ve switched from using Eclipse to Visual Studio Code (VSC) for Java coding, and was missing the JDK Source Code in VSC. The discussion in this bug…
Plain text accounting with Beancount
Jan 13, 2023
Plain text accounting with Beancount Plain text accounting is the idea of managing personal finances (or perhaps a small business, or club, or whatever) using a scriptable, command-line-friendly open…
The Need for Speed (Part #1)
Nov 27, 2022
The Need for Speed (Part #1) The Past For the past 20 years, Swisscom was my ISP at home, and I had a (now) Swisscom blue Internet L subscription for Residential Customers. The bandwidth that gave me…
Fedora Upgrades
Oct 1, 2022
Fedora Upgrades Following Fedora Docs’ DNF System Upgrade works reasonably well. Here are how I resolve a few issues I run into every time I upgrade. “The password you use to log in to your…
Fish is a **GREAT** interactive shell, but... not yet suitable for scripting! :-((
Sep 11, 2022
Fish is a GREAT interactive shell, but… not yet suitable for scripting! :-(( I almost :) started writing some shell scripts in Fish instead of Bash , but then discovered…
How to launch a CLI tool in a new terminal window
Sep 10, 2022
How to launch a CLI tool in a new terminal window Here is one way to run a CLI process in a new window, make closing that window kill that process, yet wait for the user when said process exits, e.g.…
Linux Kernel Random Number Entropy
Sep 9, 2022
Linux Kernel Random Number Entropy The Linux Kernel uses “entropy” to generate random numbers: $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail 256 $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize 256 $…
Debugging Linux Start-Up Speed Performance Issues
Sep 9, 2022
Debugging Linux Start-Up Speed Performance Issues Today while LearningLinux I noticed that my ArchLinux VMs started as fast as always, but it seemed to take longer and longer for sshd to be ready.…
Fedora Silverblue
Aug 16, 2022
Fedora Silverblue See also remaining ToDo (private). OSTree rpm-ostree install kitty rpm-ostree status systemctl reboot Flatpack As per…