Mikael Asp Somkane's tech blog

This is where I write about programming, Linux and other fun tech stuff

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  • Wrong default locale

    After installing Manjaro, a Linux distribution based on Arch, I decided to give Khal a chance. Khal is a terminal based calendar, but it kept complaining about not being able to set my default locale. I couldn’t even write the Swedish characters åäö. There are usually lots and lots of information on the Arch website and after reading that and a bunch of forum posts and trying this and that it still didn’t work.

  • Turn off caps lock when going back to normal in Vim

    Ever forgot to turn off caps lock when you escaped back to normal mode in Vim? Well, yeah, me too. Here’s how to fix that.

  • Add line numbers in Jekyll code examples

    Sometimes I want to refer to a certain line in a code example and decided to add line numbers. To get them just add the following lines to _config.yml.

  • Add CSS to Jekyll

    Adding a small piece of CSS to my blog was way harder then I had expected. In fact, it’s not very difficult if you know how to do it. The problem was that every forum or blog post had different answers to how to do it and everything was wrong. It wasn’t until I found this page that I finally figured out how to do it.

  • Welcome to my tech blog!

    This blog is where I will write about all the things that interests me and have something to do with tech, such as programming, Linux, editors and other fun stuff.

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