Blog Posts

A critical look at Atom.io

I’m currently sitting at my Macbook Air 2013 writing this, which supposedly has a Haswell i7 ultramobile inside. According to my standards that’s a pretty decent amount of computing power.

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If it is centralized, it will Fail. The Cloud loves Emergencies

Over the past few weeks I have seen a lot about emergency response systems, but first let me speak about the internet. We have seen an interesting notion in the internet.

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moo moo moo, business cards done right

I just received my new batch of moo mini cards…

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The funny little feedback loops in life

It’s been a while since I last blogged, some of you know that I’m now in sunny Lafayette.

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Fixing the hard lockup caused by bluetooth in linux during sleep

I basically stopped using the bluetooth subsystem on my machine for a while, since it would lockup my system during sleep. Today I decided to investigate a little, here’s what I found out:

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A minimalistic rfkill gtk gui for toggling your bluetooth and wireless

I just wrote a little rfkill frontend with gtk+. If you use an acer laptop you should load acer-wmi, make sure you have acpi_osi=Linux in your kernel boot.

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Changing the cursor color within tmux based on vi mode

As outlined on SE and SU you can execute actions in zsh when you change between normal and insert mode in a vi mode zsh session.

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launching firefox with text/html entry in mutt 1.5,21

I recently decided that I might want to see some html mails in a real browser instead of a w3m dump. For example when I need to click on the stupid reset password link, which is sent in the html only mail from easyjet.

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ruby-enterprise/ruby-1.8.7 in fedora 15 or archlinux

The following bugs occur when trying to install ruby enterprise on distros like fedora 15 or archlinux:

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using mutt, mu, offlineimap

I have long experimented with an optimal mail setup. As some readers may be aware there are a lot of tutorials on how how to use mutt and offlineimap. I have had a mutt and offlineimap setup for quite a long time, however I decided to tune it a bit lately.

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