rbn.im
Oh, hi! I'm Ruben Schuller and here are some notes about things, mostly tech-related. At the top you can also find links to my Sourcehut and remaining Microsoft GitHub repositories.
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using matrix.
tlog static site generator
04 December 2020for some time now this blog was generated using hugo. not anymore! i've built my own generator, tlog. in tcl.
rrsync Setup Notes
24 February 2019rrsync is a wrapper script which limits the access of rsync to a sub-hierarchy of the filesystem. this is useful for automated tasks like backups or deploying things. i bet there are plenty other write-ups on this, so i have to add mine.
Rarely Used Go Constructs
08 September 2018There are some constructs in Go which are not commonly used. The first can be used a bit like pattern matching, the second is function values of type methods.
locking xscreensaver before suspending
10 July 2018xscreensaver takes a little duration when resuming to lock the screen. to fix this, the screen has to be locked before pm-suspend is called.
setting up a matrix homeserver
02 March 2018matrix is another take on federated messaging, supporting fancy features. this roughly shows how to setup a homeserver with matrix synapse and serve the riot web ui for matrix.
syslinux on usb key
10 November 2017steps to install syslinux to an usb key. shown here is how to boot memtest.
upspin suffix setup
22 September 2017basic setup for servers and clients is described at upspin.io/doc/. to use suffixes (normal and +snapshot), a bit more setup is required on the client side.
using ttf fonts with plan9ports acme
23 June 2017iwlwifi
14 June 2017i recently noticed that my wifi was really slow. checking it revealed that i only had 1Mbit as bitrate, while the link quality was fine.
The sane way of .. trackpad scrolling
28 April 2017i use thinkpads and really like the trackpoint. i also like middle clicking. this leaves one in a state where no sane scolling is possible, hold-middle-scrolling-trackpoint just seems wrong. so heres how to use the wretched trackpad for scrolling, disabling it as mouse.