Zeit v1

Zeit began nearly five years ago as a pet project. I needed a lightweight, user-friendly tool to track time, with the added capability to export data for integration with other, mostly home-brewed software used for accounting and invoicing. At the time, I had only a basic set of features in mind and no clear long-term plan for the tool. Little did I know that I seemingly wasn’t alone in my need for a time tracker that stays out of the way and doesn’t come with an attached (paid) cloud service.

Whenever users requested new features or options, I either implemented them myself or accepted...

Ken Thompson tells a story

2024 interview, posted this October, quite a few interesting thoughts about Open Source in it:
https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=OmVHkL0IWk4

IoT in Python For Beginners: Addressable LEDs

Turn Your Raspberry Pi Into a Rainbow

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A Word on Omarchy

Pro tip: If you’ve arrived here via a link aggregator, feel free to skip ahead to the Summary for a conveniently digestible tl;dr that spares you all the tedious details, yet still provides enough ammunition to trash-talk this post in the comments of whatever platform you stumbled upon it.

In the recent months, there has been a noticeable shift away from the Windows desktop, as well as from macOS, to Linux, driven by various frustrations, such as the Windows 11 Recall feature. While there have historically been more than enough Linux distributions to choose from, for each skill level and amount of desired pain, a recent Arch-based configuration...

What's up with FUTO?

Some time ago, I noticed some new organization called FUTO popping up here and there. I’m always interested in seeing new organizations that fund open source popping up, and seeing as they claim several notable projects on their roster, I explored their website with interest and gratitude. I was first confused, and then annoyed by what I found. Confused, because their website is littered with bizzare manifestos,1 and ultimately annoyed because they were playing fast and loose with the term “open source”, using it to describe commercial source-available software.

FUTO eventually clarified their stance on “open source”, first through satire and then somewhat more soberly, perpetuating the self-serving myth that...

Photo Walk: 5 “Radioactive” Places in Paris Worthy Of Visiting

Let’s Combine Science, Fun, and History

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Connecting an Airthings Radon Detector to Home Assistant with Python and MQTT

Adding a Radon Detection to your Smart Home

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IoT in Python For Beginners: MQTT and Home Assistant Integration

Let’s Work with Hardware (no Soldering is Required)

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Cloudflare bankrolls fascists

US politics has been pretty fascist lately. The state is filling up concentration camps, engaging in mass state violence against people on the basis of racialized traits, deporting them to random countries without any respect for habeas corpus, exerting state pressure on the free press to censor speech critical of the current administration, and Trump is openly floating the idea of an unconstitutional third term.

Fascism is clearly on the rise, and they’re winning more and more power. None of this is far removed from us in the FOSS community – there are a number of fascists working in FOSS, same as the rest of society. I don’t...

I Bought a Trinitite Online - Is It Real?

Let’s Combine History, Physics, and Some Fun

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