Linux swap shenanigans

In this post we will cover a few linux swap recipes. ...

February 1, 2022 · 544 words · Thiago Perrotta

★ systemd: share environment variables with xorg

In this post we will learn how to share environment variables (e.g. $GDK_SCALE) between a system user session and X11/Xorg. ...

January 31, 2022 · 620 words · Thiago Perrotta

★ Watch files and react to changes during development

This post describes some tooling usages to watch for file changes and run or reload a command whenever they happen. ...

January 30, 2022 · 511 words · Thiago Perrotta

Linux: Remount device with different options

A few recipes for remounting linux devices / disks. It mostly boils down to running mount -o remount as root. ...

January 29, 2022 · 117 words · Thiago Perrotta

ChromeOS hterm: customize fonts

ChromeOS hterm (“Secure Shell extension”) is one of my favorite chrome extensions. It is a bit dull with its out-of-the-box monospace font though. In this post we’ll learn how to customize it. ...

January 26, 2022 · 329 words · Thiago Perrotta

Pihole: Add custom DNS mappings

This post covers how to add DNS entries / mappings to a local network managed with pihole. ...

January 25, 2022 · 229 words · Thiago Perrotta

★ Alpine Linux: New APKBUILD Workflow

This document describes my workflow to manage APKBUILDs for the aports repository in Alpine Linux. ...

January 23, 2022 · 983 words · Thiago Perrotta

Introspect the local network for Pihole

Recently I needed to figure out what the IP address of my pihole instance was in my Raspberry Pi in my local network. ...

January 23, 2022 · 640 words · Thiago Perrotta

★ Arch Linux: New PKGBUILD Workflow

This document describes my workflow to manage PKGBUILDs for the AUR (Arch User Repository) in Arch Linux. ...

January 18, 2022 · 1179 words · Thiago Perrotta

Alpine / Arch Linux: .apk-new and .pacnew files

As packages are upgraded over time, updated configs files under /etc may arise. Different package managers treat this issue differently. ...

January 18, 2022 · 342 words · Thiago Perrotta