Tab & Anitek — Chasing Rabbits (2009)
May 13th 2026 (week 20 of 2026)Chasing Rabbits has been released by Tab & Anitek in 2009. Almost two decades later, it remains one of my all-time favourite albums.
Home
Ave Vita, morituri te salutant
Latest posts
Rode AI-1: works on Linux
May 4th 2026 (week 19 of 2026)Rode AI-1 is a small USB-C audio interface with an XLR port. It works well on Linux.
IB-HUB1436-CPD: klein aber fein USB hub
May 2nd 2026 (week 18 of 2026)The hub is exactly what I wanted: a bare-bones, no-nonsense device that does what it needs to do, and nothing else.
Conformité Européenne vs China Export
May 1st 2026 (week 18 of 2026)The CE symbol representing China Export is deceptively similar to the CE symbol representing Conformité Européenne. I am sure this is just a coincidence.
Delay accounting in the Linux kernel
May 1st 2026 (week 18 of 2026) Delay accounting is something you should enable in your kernel if you want to see IO% in iotop(1).
Clean Room Guildelines of the Wine project
May 1st 2026 (week 18 of 2026)Wine is, in my opinion, a very interesting project with unusual set of constraints, pitfalls, and threats. Here are their Clean Roomm Guidelines.
Disk usage calculators for btrfs RAID
April 27th 2026 (week 18 of 2026)So you want to create or expand your btrfs RAID filesystem, but have no idea how much space you will have (or want to check your math)? Here's a couple of links to help you.
Adding a device to btrfs RAID1
April 26th 2026 (week 17 of 2026)Adding a new device to a expand space on nearly-full btrfs filesystem in RAID1 configuration is easy. Rebalancing the filesystem to make use of the extra space is less so.
Articles from sites I follow around the web
[$] Version-controlled databases using Prolly trees
May 1, 2026Modern database and filesystems make pervasive use of B-trees, which are tree structures optimized for storing sorted lists of keys and values on block devices. Dolt is an Apache 2.0-licensed project that makes clever use of a variant of a B-tree to support ef…
via LWN.netI can't cancel GitHub Copilot
May 1, 2026Back when Copilot first came out, I immediately disliked it. But I decided to give it a fair shake and tried to evaulate it in good faith. I wasn’t interested in paying for it, but they had a form for FOSS community members to apply for a free…
via Drew DeVault's blogSimple Machines
April 29, 2026 via xkcd.comGenerated by openring