Steven Van Bael

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The open calendar, task and note space is a mess
10 Mar 2021 | original ↗

The last few weeks I’ve been looking into the open calendar, tasks and notes space with the goal of finding or building a privacy-conscious and still practical system. This post is an exploration of the available technology in that space, its problems and how to solve them.

Profiling zsh startup time
17 Aug 2018 | original ↗

I am a heavy tmux and zsh user and today I noticed that starting a new tmux pane started getting slow. Sometimes it took more than 1 second for my shell in the new pane to become interactive. The only thing a new pane is doing is starting up zsh, so zsh initialization was the likely culprit.

Back to basics: A minimalist website
9 Jul 2018 | original ↗

This week I’ve come across some articles (links at the end) that made me pull the trigger on executing an idea I’ve been thinking about for a very long time: Rework my personal website to be as minimalist as it can be.

Read about the software you use
17 Mar 2016 | original ↗

Yesterday I was sharing my screen in a Skype call when we were debugging a broken Jenkins build. During the call my colleague noticed that I was opening the console output of a running build by clicking on the build number in the Build Executor Status sidebar, waiting for the page to load and then clicking on the Console Output. He told me that...

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