Free software enthusiast, big on tea, fresh fruit and nuts.
Making music without the touch of a hand
For a while I was harboring a fascination for an instrument which produced music following your mere motions. Unfortunately theremins are prohibitively expensive. Or so I thought until I discovered the Open Theremin project. ...
Reading blog posts without saying a word
It’s nice sometimes being able to listen instead of reading, isn’t? If only there was a way to automagically be able to do that for all blog posts 🤔️ ...
Publishing re-usable actions
GitHub Actions provide one of the easiest ways to add CI to a git repository with minimal effort. Drop a YAML file in the right place and you’re good to go. How do you create one, though? It’s easier than you might think! ...
Rolling back to the last good version
Do you love to install the latest and greatest? Try out new and interesting things? Except it might break for some reason. If only you had a time machine… ...
Re-inventing the wheel
openQA test distributions can become quite big. Usually test modules and helper functions live side-by-side. What if you could easily split things up into multiple repositories? ...
The world crab is moving along
The world crab is no longer just a learning project but shaping up to be quite functional! ...
The bare minimum to keep dot files in git
What do you do to backup files in your home? How do you share them and keep track changes? Version control to the rescue! ...
How to do 4k on Linux in 22
High resolution displays are great. Not just to count pixels but because you get real good font rendering and graphics without aliasing. Sadly it’s still something requires a bit of tinkering. ...
Running standandalone tests with isotovideo
Did you know? isotovideo is the tool at the heart of openQA. You can actually use it without the whole scheduler, and it’s easier than you think! ...
Inclusive language - English vs Spanish
They? Them? elle? le? Why is gender neutral Spanish so difficult and how do you make it work? ...