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  • Plex in Manjaro

    I know I sang the praise of Gnomecast, but it is way too unstable for me. So I looked for another solution. I tried Plex some time ago in Linux Mint, but I didn’t get it to work. But this time I did.

  • Leaving insert mode without an escape key

    Have you worked on an iPad or other device and suddenly realised that you can’t go back to normal mode because there’s no esc key on the keyboard?

  • Perl script for generating category and tag pages

    In this post I mentioned that you can write a script to generate the category files. I took on the challenge and wrote a script in Perl.

  • Added book collection

    Today I added a book collection. You can find it at the top together with the categories. Collections are great if you want to add something where every document will be similar such as book reviews, blog authors, staff or recepies.

  • New category: Personal

    Today I added the category Personal to be able to write personal updates. In a way to write off feelings and to document changes for the better or worse.

  • All is well, sort of

    I went to the doctor yesterday to get my results from my lastest x-ray. My brain tumours are the same size as before, the thing that was growing on my left kidney is actually shrinking, but one lymph node in my chest is slowly growing and something they will keep an I on.

  • New css for Rouge

    I wasn’t totally satisfied with the look of code examples so I rewrote and added some css to _rouge.scss.

  • Stream from Linux to Chromecast

    I was looking forward to getting VLC 3 so that I would be able to stream to Chromecast, but that didn’t work. I remember trying the snap version of VLC 3 in Linux Mint and that it streamed just fine. But someone in a forum mentioned that the combination Manjaro and KDE somehow made it impossible. I really like Manjaro and KDE so I was a bit sad about that, but then I read about Gnomecast and lo and behold, it streamed!

  • Syncing Khal with Android

    Earlier I promised to show you how to sync Khal with Android and here is how I did it.

  • Add a category page in Jekyll

    I use categories in my blog posts to collect the posts that belong together, but since Jekyll doesn’t create category pages and Github pages don’t accept plugins I had to create it myself.

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