Not everything has to be fancy and shiny. Most of the apps we use to day, both on our laptops/desktops and mobile phones are very good looking and sleek. The developers behind them has done a terrific job with most of  these apps. But is fancy, shiny and sleek always the best? Lately I've been finding my self actively seeking out applications that are not that fancy and sleek. I have been looking in the world of cli[¹]. I have not replaced most of apps but two of them…

I've earlier posted about my Node based Dynamic DNS solution for DigitalOcean. Although this app is still working it will not be maintained anymore. I have created a Python (3.x) based app that does the same as the Node based one - sans the IPv6 part. I will add that as well in the near future. You can download or clone the repository from here.…

After setting up one of my Raspberry PIs as a "Magic Mirror" - sans the mirror but with a 7" touch screen I found the need for a module or two. Magic Mirror2 has a lot of good modules to choose from. One of them did almost what I wanted.[1] So by the magic of Free and Open-source Software (FOSS) I forked one of them and made a few changes. So still in the spirit of FOSS I've made the fork available to donwload. You can…

If you are using Solus (with Budgie DE) (https://solus-project.com) there is a small applet for Budgie panel to easily paste your gist/snippet directly to a gist server.It supports Pastebin, Github Gist, Hastebin and GNOME paste. That means you can use it on Gitlab.no's Hastebin instance. Yay #FOSS!…

Some code and instructions for showing your Instagram feed as a static page with a Ghost blog.…