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Recently, I realized I’ve collected quite a few handy little items that I use almost every day. For a long time, I didn’t even know “Everyday Carry” — or EDC — was a thing....

I recently got a Raspberry Pi Zero and started configuring it for a personal project. As I was setting everything up I realized how much time and effort I was investing....

I was always intrigued when I heard about people creating custom mods in games with the help of the mysterious Lua scripting language. I didn’t care much about the games themselves, but more about the idea of extending and customizing something to my imagination....

I wanted a smart HomeKit thermostat for a long time. The only problem is that it is quite expensive so I never bought one. Last year, Espressif organized an introductory workshop to familiarize people with ESP32....

I recently published and shared with the world my first real open-source project. It brought some traffic to its Github page and some people even starred it. This made me super happy, knowing that other people find my project useful or interesting enough to give it a star....

Recently I’ve encountered an unpleasant situation on one of the websites I manage. I randomly opened it only to find out it wasn’t working. Unfortunately, it was not a very important website, so no harm was done but the problem was that I didn’t know for how long it had been down....

After a couple of months since the last release, here I am again, announcing a new updated version of Novus - v0.0.5. This version includes new features and minor enhancements, but most importantly, it introduces the trust command—something I have wanted to have since the very beginning....

When writing software, sometimes it is necessary to run shell commands that require sudo privileges. This can happen, for instance, when building a CLI tool that needs to write into protected filesystem directories or modify certain files....

Ever since releasing the first version of the binary, I knew there were more things I wanted to add and improve in Novus. There have been a couple of smaller releases since then, but it was only bug fixes I stumbled across while using the binary....

As developers, we often need to use many different programs for our job. There are various ways to install these applications, one of the most popular being Homebrew. It is advertised as “the missing package manager for macOS” (and Linux) and it certainly does a great job there....