Introduction XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) is something that has always caught my attention. I will always wonder why it never became mainstream and the de-facto standard for I...

Introduction systemd 256 introduced run0. It isn’t a new tool per se, but rather a symbolic link to systemd-run that changes its behavior to run commands as root, similar to sudo. Some of the moti...

TLDR See the summarizing section. Introduction I have been writing Rust code in a professional manner since 2019. The “de-facto” ORM for Rust on that time was Diesel, and I have been using it si...

Introduction If you’re on the Linux world, you may have heard of Wayland. For good or for bad. It’s a modern display server protocol that aims to replace the aging X11 system. One of the key featu...

Introduction I have been a very pro-systemd user for many years, that can be easily verified on some of my publications. My setup was based on systemd components for almost everything: networking,...

Introduction The past week I was thinking about making my main computer more portable, secure, with no untracked config files thrown around in $HOME, and without having to learn some ugly function...

Introduction A few days ago I was looking for a way to improve my Fish shell experience, exactly I wanted to have smart suggestions based on my usage patterns, directory context, and command histo...

TLDR 2025/12/10: the problem was more depth in my case, but this will still work for similar issues. I have an Asus board, which has 2x PCIex16 slots + 2x PCIex1 slots. When using a device on one ...

Introduction This post is more of a reminder for me than anything else (so don’t expect a very detailed, long post), but since that I’ve learned in the process, I decided to share it and try to he...

Introduction I’ve been using Bash for over 15 years. It’s THE BEST shell out there. Not by technical merit, but by sheer inertia. It’s the default shell on almost every system, every script is wri...