Making internal linking in pelican effortless
One interesting feature of Pelican, the static site generator I use for this blog, is the internal link expansion syntax with {}. It is documented here. Some examples are {filename}, {static} and {author}. The purpose of the syntax is to have shorter and easier aliases to link to internal content in …

The menus in my system
Another post going through stuff I set up for my desktop environment a couple years ago and that have used ever since 🙂. This time I'll show the menus I've created using rofi. So, what is rofi? It's basically a program where you feed a list of options to it, and …

The blocks in my status bar
Five years ago when I moved to the i3 window manager, I started using its status bar, the i3bar. It is text based, and it's up to you what gets shown there. However it is not very modular: it's weird to combine different information to be shown since everything has …

Resurrecting a computer on the go
Earlier this month I was spending a few weeks in another country. It was late at night and I was once again looking over my personal files and thinking if there was a better way to organize them in folders. After thinking for a bit I decided on a new …

My journey to a good backup system
I'm a bit of a data hoarder. I still have some of the first programs I've ever written, photos I've taken on trips and drawings I did many years ago, to name a few. And since I don't trust some company to store all of this data for me, it …