Welcome to my blog!

I'm a Linux geek and have been since I was first introduced to Slackware External site icon back in 1996 by a co-worker at the time.

Major life changes and zrep updates

Well, I've just sent an email to our landlord letting him know that we are heading to Spain in 3 months.
It's a bit scary. We've been in this house for almost 4 years and it's our home. It is, however time to embrace changes.

New project: zrep - The Zsh Repository Tool

I've been working hard these past few weeks to create a new tool that is inspired by the pip command that downloads and installs Python packages either globally or locally for the user.

Understanding QStags: A Starting Guide

QStags represent a unique way to incorporate HTML elements into text without directly using HTML syntax. This method simplifies the process of formatting text, making it more accessible to individuals who may not be familiar with HTML. Let's delve into how these QStags work and explore their potential benefits.

Quick Site Generator 2 0.4.0 with support for 3 languages

I've update the script to enable support for other languages for the messages it generates.
For now, en_US, es_ES and nb_NO are available.

Updates, a trip and personal stuff...

Quick Site Generator 2 is still being developed. We celebrated the birthday of my step-dad. Downtime.

Updated: Quick Site Generator 2 0.3.3

This time I've cleaned up the tabs and spaces throughout the script to make it more readable.

New release: Quick Site Generator 2 0.3.1

More bug fixes and enhancements.

Release: Quick Site Generator 2 0.2.5

I've fixed quite a few bugs and enhanced the script.

Quick Site Generator 2 - Updates

A lot of work and progress has been made since my last update. Version 0.2.0 has been released.

Quick Site Generator 2 - A Rewrite

I've decided to rewrite the script that generates this site.

Lots of bugs and it's not looking good

My script is getting a bit complex and it's not as easy to add new templates as I'd hoped...

Updates on the script that builds this blog

I've spent a few days updating and optimizing the script that builds this site.

Sometimes it just does not work out the way you think

Godaddy scammed me. I think...

A very snowy day...

This week has been crazy with a lot of snow. Check out the photo!

A trip to Sweden

My sister called me a few days ago and asked me if I could help her. Of course I said yes.

New house, new life, new everything

It's been an interesting few years since my last update...

Hardware instead of a Virtual Machine

I dug up my old workstation and am now using this to serve you my website instead of running it in a VM on my current workstation.

Back after moving to a new house

I have been offline for over 5 weeks this summer due to me moving to a new place.

Stop Microsoft from buying Github

As far as I can see, only bad things can come of this deal.

Another whale dies because of plastic bags

My heart is crying for the animals of this planet that have to suffer for our stupidity.

NeoVim - a Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

I've used vim since the very first time I booted Linux and heard about NeoVim pretty early on. It was not in a very usable state back then, but things have changed a lot.

Happy Towel Day

Happy Towel Day to every fellow geek and nerd in the world.

What is UGT and when to use it

I joined an IRC channel the other day and said Good CET Morning. Got an immediate reaction.

Using a different SSH key on another computer

Sometimes you may not want to add every single SSH key you have to access a remote resource.
I will tell you a good way to use existing keys you can add to your SSH config file.

Everybody is trying to hack my ssh server

Ever since I set up my server, made it public and enabled fail2ban, I see lots of attempts at breaking in.

Everybody is trying to hack my webserver

Ever since I set up this webserver and made it public, I see in the logs a lot of attempts at hacking it.

May 17th, the Indepence Day of Norway

Way back in the year 1814, some dudes decided to write a document that turned out to become our Constitution.

Openbox, the minimalistic window manager, is close to release 3.7

I have been using Openbox for quite a while and am now running the latest version compiled from a git checkout.

Updated. Mageia 6 with massive update to the QT and Plasma stack

The Mageia packagers and QA team has been working really hard for the past few months getting a massive update rolled out.

The Eff warns about security flaw in GPG

The EFF has issued a warning about a security issue in GPG and recommends you to take action.

Things are taking shape now

So, I have been working on my hacks and it looks like I have reached a Good Enough state now.

Having this setup enables me to serve you only static HTML pages from a semi-dynamic backend using templates.