Many times I have been tempted to install an IRC bouncer. I use it often to keep in touch with maintainers and other folks online. Often, I got discouraged because I did not want to configure an additional piece of software. Only last week, I decided to give it a try.

Problem Statement

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When I finally had time to set up a small server with RPi4, I wanted to plug in my old disk with a lot of memories. I often connected it to my laptop(s) without problems. What I did on the RPi4 may be a story for another time, but what you need to know is that I am running Gentoo on the RPi4. I...

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In a moment of wild excitement for CI changes at my workplace, I decided to fix up the CI/CD for the repository I use for Enlightenment live packages.

Introduction

A long time ago, I used Travis. After the countless changes they have gone trough, my setup was not working any more. So I decided...

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I needed to get notified of a new job opening at a faculty, but their system did not have a subscription feature. I have been using Scrapyd for a couple of years for work reasons, but I wanted something super-easy that did not need any framework.

Problem

My problem was super clear (and easy)....

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So, I spent some time working on this Enlightenment gadget to auto-rotate the screen by reading the orientation through a DBus proxy kindly provided by IIO-Sensor-Proxy. I was happy to see the screen rotating accordingly to how I positioned my laptop. Sadly, the touch screen input was not rotated ye...

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