ESP32-C6 platformio fail

A few months ago, I wrote about my disappointing experience trying to program a Nordic nRF52840 dongle with PlatformIO. The conclusion was clear: abandon PlatformIO and use native toolchains. Yet here I am again, foolishly thinking "maybe this time will be different" with the new…

Updated CloudFlare backup action

I've been using GitHub Actions to automatically backup my Cloudflare DNS records as JSON files for a while now. It's a simple but effective way to keep track of DNS changes and have a safety net in case something goes wrong. Recently, I decided to enhance this setup by also backi…

Routeros zola syntax highlighting support

I was doing some Mikrotik related blog posts recently and even though my neovim has support for RouterOS syntax in markdown .md files inside code blocks via sheerun/vim-polyglot, zola does not have a built in support for it. Claude was however able to convert this vim script into…

Mikrotik router button LEDs toggle script

Recently I have moved my router from one place in a house to another and got a new distraction: it's fast blinking LEDs right into my face. Pressed the mode button on the back and I was expecting them to turn off but to my surprise, nothing happened. Fortunately, I had a backup o…

Running dusk tests watcher

After I had success with my unit and feature tests watcher script I decided to build something similar for a Laravel Dusk E2E (end-to-end) test too. However, it was a little bit different this time as I have found out after many iterations. I started up simply updating the watche…

Moving window to a monitor and back on a Mac

Getting an open window from and to a monitor on mac, I have found two general options: Three-finger swipe up, then move - but the window is not maximized on my Mac, it just ends up being somewhere on the given monitor, PITA Hover cursor over the little green icon at the top left…

Mastering internal links in zola

When building a static site with Zola, one common issue is discovering broken internal links only after deployment. External links pointing to your own content (like [post](/blog/my-post/)) are treated as external by Zola's link checker, missing valuable validation opportunities.…