This Christmas I went back to my home country to spend some holiday time with my family. My mom complained that her tablet (aka my ancient tablet from 2013) was too slow and she was not able to play her games. I bought her a new one and took my old Asus Memo Pad Smart 10 back to Amsterdam.

Aft...

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When creating packages for experimental software or cutting edge versions of stable ones, it is common to use Overlays. in Gentoo.

The tool the manage these overlays is called layman. Obviously, there are several references describing how to add your overlay to the list of the official...

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I wanted to write a little bit more and having more control over the blog. On top of that, I stumbled upon the so-called flat file CMS and after a couple of minutes, I was already reading about https://getgrav.org/. So I quickly bought a hosting service and installed it.

This CMS is tidy and ne...

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This week I had enough time to play around with an addon I made some time ago. JSONDiff is an addon to easily compare JSON documents, and its source code can be found on GitHub.

The latest version was based on JPM, so I decided to port it to WebExtension. Good for me, the addon is an easy one,...

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Recently I switched from openRC to systemd. It was a tough choice, but beside the many, many discussion that took place over the years, I decided to give it a try.

Problem

So, here we are trying to do the transition. I followed the detailed guide provided by Gentoo on how to install system...

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