Last year I purchased an e-bike upgrade kit for my mother in law. We decided to install it on a bicycle she originally bought back in the 80s, which I fixed and refurbished a couple of years ago and used until September 2022 when I bought myself a Dutch Cortina …
To England by train (part 2)
By Andrej ShaduraMy attempt to travel to the UK by train last year didn’t go quite as well as I expected. As I mentioned in that blog post, the NightJet to Brussels was cancelled, forcing me to fly instead. This disappointed me so much that I actually unpublished the blog post …
Coffee gear upgrade
By Andrej ShaduraTwo weeks ago I decided to make myself a combined birthday and Christmas present and upgrade my coffee gear.
I’ve got my first espresso machine back in 2013, it was a cheap Saeco Philips Poemia, which made reasonably drinkable coffee, but not being able to make good coffee made …
To England by train (part 1)
By Andrej ShaduraThis post was written in August 2021. Just as I was going to publish it, I received an email from ÖBB stating that due to a railway strike in Germany my night train would be cancelled. Since the rest of the trip has already been booked well in advance, I …
Transitioning to a new OpenPGP key
By Andrej ShaduraMaking the blog part of the Fediverse and IndieWeb
By Andrej ShaduraI’ve just made my blog available on the Fediverse, at least partially.
Yesterday while browsing Hacker News, I saw Carl Schwan’s post Adding comments to your static blog with Mastodon(m) about him replacing Disqus with replies posted at Mastodon. Just on Monday I was thinking, why can …
Vendoring Rust dependencies for a Debian derivative
By Andrej ShaduraRecently, I needed to package a Rust crate
libslirp
for a Apertis, a Debian derivative.libslirp
is used by the newly release UML backend of debos, our Debian image build tool. Unfortunately, this crate hasn’t yet been properly packaged for Debian proper, so I could not simply pull the …Useful FFmpeg commands for video editing
By Andrej ShaduraAs a response to Antonio Terceiro’s blog post, I’m publishing some FFmpeg commands I’ve been using recently.
Embedding subtitles
Sometimes you have a video with subtitles in multiple languages and you don’t want to clutter the directory with a lot of similarly-named files — or maybe you …
Follow-up on the train journey to FOSDEM
By Andrej ShaduraHere’s a recap of my train journey based on the Twitter thread I kept posting as I travelled.
To FOSDEM…
The departure from Bratislava was as planned:
Half an hour in Vienna was just enough for me to grab some coffee and …
Using gcc sanitisers to get a nasty bug fixed
By Andrej ShaduraA couple of days ago a colleague at Collabora asked me to help create a Debian package for the tool he needed to complete his task. The tool happened to be an NXP code signing tool, used to sign OS images to be run on i.MX systems using ‘High …