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Installing and Configuring tomate-gtk
I sometimes use tomate-gtk, an application that provides timers for the Pomodoro Technique, to ensure I take breaks when working AND that I continue to work afterwards. Yesterday, I decided to clean up my tomate-gtk installation.—read full blog entry
Text in SVGs
SVG, because it is the vector graphics format supported by most browsers, should be the preferred format for graphics on the web whenever possible. There are obvious exceptions, for example photographs and screenshots.—read full blog entry
Backup Setup
I recently brought my backup setup to a point that I am satisfied with. This is an overview. In two sections I answer the questions: What data do I backup? and How do I backup the data?—read full blog entry
Sprouting time-lapse with RaspberryPi Cam
As physical distancing continued and we started a small garden on our balcony, I had an idea how to put my old Raspberry Pi 1 to good use. After ordering and receiving a Raspberry Pi Cam, an SD card, and a power supply, I head everything to capture a time-lapse of sprouting seeds.—read full blog entry
Color By Numbers
Day-care is closed, so we spend some extra time with our kids. This extra time has to be filled. One of the things we came up with is a simple drawing game for our (almost) four-year-old, that I want to share.—read full blog entry
Minimal Symmetric Difference of Concentric Disk and Square
Logos, icons, avatars and similar graphics are often displayed in disk or square shaped frames. To design graphics that work well with both frame shapes, I wanted to know the relative size of a disk and a square with common center and minimal symmetric difference.—read full blog entry
SBCL on Fedora Linux on RISC-V QEMU on Arch Linux on x86_64
Charles Zhang, or karlosz, has put in the work to port SBCL to 64-bit RISC-V Linux. I wanted to play around with SBCL on RISC-V and dove in to setting up an environment on my laptop. On this page I recount what I did, to spare you a little research and tinkering.—read full blog entry