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My personal tips for how to get off Gmail for good: setting up your domain, email forwarding, IMAP and SMTP, and migrating your data over.

Ideas for how to keep your computer organised - software for tagging files, and how to manage the resulting complexity.

An article documenting how I installed NixOS in 2023. I was not completely happy with my installation, so there is discussion at the end about next steps.

I’m sick of being asked to choco yumbrew pip6 npm install every project on the internet. I have a package manager already - let me use it.

I was trying to install discourse on a new server, and the installer kept reporting issues with the network connection. This forced me to learn some tips about debugging a network, which turned out not to fix the issue.

I wrote a pandoc filter that put little anchors next to all my headers, automatically. This is how!

A cheat-sheet for long commands with many options that I don’t like searching the internet or reading the manual to find over and over.

When I switched to Gentoo, my laptop was warmer than I expected during normal use. It turned out that my CPU was running at max frequency all the time, which was making it consume more power (and hence warm up).

Explanation of how to remap keys, assign scripts to certain key combinations, and fix broken multimedia keys on a system running X.

st is a simple terminal emulator for X which sucks less It is configured by patching the source code, which is written in C. To see the changes I’ve made, plus an explanation of how they work, take a look at my fork on Github.