This is probably going to be the weirdest blog post I have ever written. If you’re up for it, let’s do this! I recently played with LEGO Duplo. Yes I am an adult, go figure. While building random stuff I came across something interesting (to me). I had a large green board and a small fence. The fence has two points at either end where it can be connected to the board and has a length of five. ...

I’ve been blogging (on and off) for a while now. Originally, I just wanted a place to write down things I’d done, tutorials, idle thoughts, stuff like that. But since I’m also active on Mastodon (or recently GoToSocial) and link to my posts there I started wondering if anyone ever actually reads my posts or if I’m shouting into the void here. You know, idle curiosity. The obvious answer to that question comes in the guise of website analytics. ...

Have you ever had the problem that you want to run a script but because it handles relative paths it depends on the directory it’s called from? Well, today I learned about a shell function that helps with that, called dirname. It can be fed a path and will return it with the last non-slash component and trailing slash removed. So to refer to the location a script sits in you can do simply: ...

A while ago I became aware of Nix, NixOS and people who actually use it. I was intrigued by the proposition: configure your whole system declaratively so you can avoid configuration drift and combat issues with reproducibility. I tried it out and found that Nix is not straightforward to learn. Also, the documentation is gruesome. I decided that knowing Nix and applying it might be nice but I just don’t want to learn it right now. ...

“Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy” celebrates its 20th anniversary this year! Reason enough to dust it off and play it yet again. This time I went to hunt for mods to make it more interesting this time around and I found JKHub. This has a list of recommended mods for the game here featuring cosmetic ones, new textures, new lightsabers, new character models but also conversion mods, new missions and more! But first things first: installation. I own the GOG version of the game so I used Lutris to install the game with this script. It makes use of OpenJK, an open-source reimplementation of the game engine which also has a Linux build so you can now play this game natively on Linux! What a time to be alive! ...