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Rant and ESP8266 - 19+ Months 18650 battery lifetime

rantLets start this blog post with a rant. About a year ago I posted a blog, '1+ year 1...

January 23, 2021

GITLAB - Reset all passwords

I had to reset all user paswords on a GitLab instance. As I could not find a good way t...

January 26, 2020

ESP8266 - 1+ Year 18650 battery lifetime

Around 1.5 year ago I started developing small sensors that could be placed around the ...

January 01, 2020

RD Tech - UM25 Power Meter

Not a real review, but I had one for a while now. Decided to buy another one (with Blue...

March 16, 2019

Crappy USB Hub

This is another grind my gears, this little issue caused a lot of headache before it wa...

March 03, 2019

Quick IKEA Solbana Powerbank review

I recently was at the IKEA and saw thesolbana powerbank for around € 15,– (combination ...

August 08, 2018

Rofi 1.4.0: Sneak Preview Custom Layouts

As a last minute addition, in git you can now change how the different widgets of the G...

June 12, 2017

Rofi 1.4.0: Sneak Preview Plugins

On request a blog post of a feature in 1.4.0 I wanted to keep kind-of quiet:Plugins. E...

April 20, 2017

Rofi 1.4.0: Sneak Preview (9): Borders and more borders

This blog post will talk about borders, border radius and more borders.BorderIn the new...

April 18, 2017

Rofi 1.4.0: Sneak Preview (8): Reordering

A short one today on the structure of rofi.The structure of rofi gui is pretty static, ...

April 12, 2017

Rofi 1.4.0: Sneak Preview (7): Transparency

In this post we handle how transparency works. While there is nothingtechnically new he...

April 10, 2017

Rofi 1.4.0: Sneak Preview (6): Errors

In this blog post we will go into debugging a new theme in the new format.Given there a...

April 09, 2017

Rofi 1.4.0: Sneak Preview (5): Fonts

Today only a very short blog post on fonts and a sneak sneak peak at settings configura...

April 08, 2017

Rofi 1.4.0: Sneak Preview (4): Sizing

This blog post will discussed how the different widgets in the rofi window (re)size.Res...

April 07, 2017

Rofi 1.4.0: Sneak Preview (3): Positioning

As indicated in the previous post, this post will explain the new positioning code in r...

April 06, 2017