Liv a little

Using distrobox containers for development makes it super easy to separate one or more development setups from the host system. I got used to setting up a container with a different image while still having my user and tools setup as I’m used to. It’s one thing to spin up a container to test out a difference between SUSE Linux Enterprise and Tumbleweed, or see how Ubuntu behaves in a certain case. Having your shell setup as you’re used to reduces disruption in a different environment, and you already have access to the repos you work with, too. ...

If you work with terminals a lot you probably also edit text in it. helix has become my default after years of vim, vi and neovim. Why? Because my config file got too big. ...

Terminals are crucial to my development workflow, locally and remotely. zellij has replaced tmux for my tiling and session management needs. ...

As an avid container user and occasional distro hopper Distrobox has my interest peaked. ...

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. ...

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 🤔️ ...

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! ...

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… ...

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 no longer just a learning project but shaping up to be quite functional! ...