Here you will find various writings on subjects which I deem interesting enough to write about. That typically includes web development, miscellaneous programming with python and the Godot game engine, and linux things.
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Fedora Silverblue uses a read-only /usr folder, meaning software should be installed via other means. One of those means is via Podman containers using a tool called Toolbox (which is being renamed Toolbx).
When you enter one of these Toolbox containers, your prompt gains a small pink dot and the …
read moreI'd been having a few problems with my three-year-old install of OpenSuse Leap on my work laptop, and this seemed like the perfect excuse for a clean re-install. So, I backed up my important files and replaced the drive with a fresh, encrypted install of Fedora Silverblue. There have also …
read moreI recently bought myself a Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Pro (bit of a mouthful of a name!) and have put Fedora Silverblue on it. This post will be a short review of my experience after 3 weeks.
Here's the output of neofetch, which contains info about the CPU, GPU …
Short post to help anyone else who is trying to get Linux working on a Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Pro (Intel).
The machine did not work perfectly out-of-the-box for me, even on a very new Kernel (5.15, Fedora Silverblue).
The keyboard does not work properly after booting, and the …
read moreI've recently installed Fedora Silverblue on my Gaming Laptop, the last of my machines running Windows 10. Getting it installed to dual boot took quite a few attempts, so I'll document here how to set it up successfully.
If you haven't already, you will need to clear some space on …
read moreOne of my goals for 2021 was to read more, and I've been fairly successful at carving out an hour and a half per night, five nights a week, to read.
Here is just a dump of all of the books I read this year, mostly for my own sake …
read moreI'm quite surprised that I would ever end up desiring a ChromeOS device, but it happened. I'm not sure when, or why, but it did.
As a Youtube addict, I've always loved the Lenovo Yoga tablet line. The built-in kickstands, the fantasic speakers, the huge battery life. They're …
read moreI've previously written about how we use CircleCI and Ansible for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), and now we have a couple of projects using Github Actions instead of CircleCI, so I thought I'd write another post detailing how one of these projects handles its CI/CD.
The third (and probably final) framework I'll be writing my timekeeping page in is Vue. I've worked on a project in the past
which was written in "proper" Vue (with .vue files and a npm server), but I've forgotten basically all of it by now.
Vue 3 has recently been …
read moreThe second framework I decided to rewrite my timekeeping page in was React. It seems to be the most popular framework at the present time, so I would expect it to have a lot of support from documentation, stackoverflow questions, and the like.
To my disappointment, it seems like it …
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