Writing

Informal, low-stakes writing. Sometimes I write about what I am doing in my free time, othetimes just various musings and unsorted thoughts. Sometimes even proper articles.

All texts on this website are written completely without the use of generative models or other machine learning abominations.

2025-12-01December Adventure
2025-07-29Synths!
2025-05-29Custom Emacs qalc REPL Pop-Up
2024-12-11Painless multi-account emailing with imaps and smtp in gnus in emacs
2024-12-02December Adventure
2023-10-18Use bash? Configure readline!
2023-07-10Using .desktop Files for Bookmarks
2023-05-20Review: "The Astronauts" by Stanislaw Lem
2023-01-05Setting up pipewire for an external DAC
2022-12-29Status Update 2022
2022-11-28How zig-spoon (and lots of coffee) helped me sort thousands of pictures
2022-08-23Wardialing My Grandmother
2022-06-08Duck
2022-01-28DIY Pinhole Photography
2022-01-09The Headphone Saga
2022-01-06Uncooked Terminal IO
2021-11-25eduroam with iwd
2021-11-21River Setup Guide (continously updated)
2021-10-02Librem13v3 Recap
2021-09-27Stauts Update 2021
2021-08-05Explaining River Layouts
2021-07-29Custom XKB Layout

Articles from blogs I read (generated by openring)

in which our protagonist dreams of laurels

I had a dream the other evening, in which I was at a large event full of hackers—funny, that this is the extent of my dreams at the moment; as a parent of three young kids, I don’t get out much—and, there, I was to receive an award and give a speech. (I kno…

wingolog, December 17, 2025

vm.overcommit_memory=2 is always the right setting for servers

The Linux kernel has a feature where you can tune the behavior of memory allocations: the vm.overcommit_memory sysctl. When overcommit is enabled (sadly, this is the default), the kernel will typically return a mapping when brk(2) or mmap(2) is called to…

Ariadne's Space, December 16, 2025

Status update, November 2025

Hi! This month a lot of new features have added to the Goguma mobile IRC client. Hubert Hirtz has implemented drafts so that unsent text gets saved and network disconnections don’t disrupt users typing a message. He also enabled replying to one’s own messages…

emersion, November 16, 2025