Replacing z with zoxide

Today I once again stumbled upon a painful problem of rupa/z which I was Using since forever. The problem is that once you delete a folder, z will try to cd into it, but then it fails: The directory 'nonxistent' does not exist. I tried to poke around the GitHub issues an…

Updated pinecil v2 with hall sensor

Just a quick update here. Today I had some time, so I managed to add a hall sensor to my Pinecil V2. Now on the soldering stand equipped with a neodymium magnets at the right spots (near the point where the tip is inserted to the soldering iron, under the green rubber handle) the…

Install pynvim via homebrew properly

Previously I have written about what I tried and what did and did not work while trying to satisfy neovim's :checkhealth command while detecting the Python provider on Mac M3. Yeah, the solution worked but it was less than optimal, due to the use of --break-system-packages option…

Ugreen Nexode 100W powerbank small current mode

Recently I bought an Ugreen Nexode PB720 100W powerbank (not sponsored in any way). Since the documentation on specific features is lacking, I thought I share some of my findings here. Charging in at 65W To utilize ultra fast powerbank charging, which is claimed to be full in und…

Store mikrotik backup in repository

I am not a power user of Mikrotik devices so far, judging by the fact that I am not using terminal there as much as I am using web interface (or WebFig as they call it). But Mikrotik, being a powerful platform can help me understand what I am doing. One of the things I figured ou…

Wi-Fi ACL on RouterOS 7

As a security-minded individual I wanted to make sure my wireless network is as secure as the devices on it allow. The most important piece is of course the router. In my case, some time ago I replaced my Archer MR200 proudly running OpenWRT with hAP ac3 LTE6 kit router running M…

Merge photos into pdf via cmd

Here's a short function for fish shell I am currently using to merge photos into one pdf and then optimize it to massively reduce the resulting size, for instance from 13MB to 230kB without loosing too much quality. Works for me very well, requires GhostScript and ImageMagick 7 o…