Two Gitea clients for mobile

I am self-hosting a Gitea instance for all my coding work. Live personal projects, coding work, archived code. In fact, not only coding but most writing in general. Books and courses included. Yeah, these days, it is possible to write the course as well. Browsing F-Droid lately I…

Negative margin and grid layout in CSS

Some time ago, if developers wanted to layout the page, they generally had two options. Either use some hacky solution made of many floating elements or use the HTML <table> element. Both approaches had their fair share of problems. These times are fortunately gone and toda…

A tale about organisational openness

The meeting with a client this morning was postponed for about an hour. My job there was to find a way how to adjust a small single-purpose machine that was used to continuously check the quality of a manufacturing process. Every four hours a batch of five devices under test were…

Lockdown travel, SMS sync and factory reset

Today was a long day. Lockdown restrictions in our country currently do not allow traveling between counties. Some exceptions apply, but none of them for me. It is only allowed to travel longer distances between 01:00 and 05:00 in the morning. I had to wake up at 00:45 to make th…

Syncthing is helping me sell used stuff

Since I have made the Syncthing working across my devices, synchronizing KeePassXC passwords and photos, my life turned out better in more ways than I have previously imagined. One way that that this setup resulted in a positive change in my life is minimalism. Minimalism is inte…

How to install Syncthing on Arch Linux ARM

Syncthing is a solution to share files across multiple devices, spanning most operating systems, including Linux, Windows, Mac and Android. It's open source and it is decentralized. It requires some set-up, however. I was reluctant at first, but it is one of the things that I did…

Keep Gnome Shell settings in dotfiles with yadm

Gnome project went through a long and turbulent journey in a open-source world, filled with forks, pivotal changes and controversy. Gnome is based on GTK widget toolkit. Widget toolkit is a software library used to build graphical user interface (GUI). GTK was born as a more open…