André Klein
[drop_cap]B[/drop_cap]ackground radiation in space is a crazy thing. At any given moment cosmic rays, mostly protons and heavier nuclei flung out by exploding stars, punch straight through the hull of a spacecraft and through an astronaut’s eyeball. Can’t do much about it. Apollo 11’s crew...
André Klein
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany [drop_cap]W[/drop_cap]orking on non-US keyboards can be challenging when common tools and specs expects standard layouts. For example, I use a German keyboard which has a bunch of “fun” quirks: Y and Z are swapped @ is typed with AltGr (right...
André Klein
Ghost in the Shell (1995) [drop_cap]T[/drop_cap]here is this strange affectation that comes with using tiling window managers: EVERYTHING has to be a hotkey. If you don’t wield a gazillion keybinds you are failing in the Way of The Tile. Don’t want to memorize five-finger chord contortions just...
André Klein
“You shall not pass!” [drop_cap]A[/drop_cap]dobe isn’t exactly a beloved company these days. People begrudgingly use their stuff, because the Creative Suite is an industry standard (read: monopoly) or there are simply no worthwhile alternatives, not because anyone is genuinely excited about these...
André Klein
A few days ago I built a small terminal tool for cross-posting to Mastodon, Twitter and Bluesky: socialsox-tui. You pop open a terminal, type your thought, send it. Done. No browser, no feed, no related posts. Even supports images and video. It came together fast because I’d already done the hard...
André Klein
Adaptation (2002) [drop_cap]T[/drop_cap]here’s a type of writer who just writes. That ain’t me. Hand-cutting and gluing books to sell after readings. Uploading home-made PDFs to an FTP server at 2am. Spending hours in Berlin print-shops agonizing over the perfect glue-binding for a short story...
André Klein
font: Delta Corps Priest 1 [drop_cap]I[/drop_cap]t’s no secret that minimalist tiling window managers and “full-fat” desktop environments are deeply at odds with each other, both in form and function. That’s why usually when someone wants to get started with Hyprland the recommendation from the...
André Klein
[drop_cap]I[/drop_cap] never understood all the hype around Obsidian as “second brain”, and the way some people throw around the German word Zettelkasten like some obscure grand cru vintage. As if the gritty business of memorization had a dress code. (By the way, the German “Z” here is a hard...
André Klein
Brazil (1985) [drop_cap]I[/drop_cap] built my first home page in 1996 in Microsoft FrontPage. It looked like a digital ransom note, but it was mine. Instantly accessible from anywhere in the world, without permission, like global graffiti. In the early 2000s, like many others, I learned CSS by...
André Klein
If you need a color picker regularly enough but not every five minutes, keeping a widget on your panel 24/7 may be overkill. I prefer a global hotkey that triggers a picker and stays hidden otherwise. And we can hook right into the default KDE color picker, no need for additional packages. the...