Updating an old Ansible role with multiple OS support

Almost exactly two years ago—huh!—Cay Horstman configured his Linux machine for 2× HiDPI, including some tweaks I was unaware of. He also summarised why you’d want to do this: At first I didn’t care because my external monitor didn’t change, and just set the resolution to 1920x1200. But when I traveled over Christmas, I got curious. Would it be...

Every time I go to an industry gathering, user group, trade show, conference, weeb event, or other such gathering, I’m issued one of these lanyard things with either a name tag or card attached. Sometimes it’s to identify me among the crowd, other times it’s to verify that I—or the company!—paid for me to attend their free lunch with an event...

Clara and I are faced with a predicament thanks to our renewed interest in hi-fi and retro(ish) console gear in the lounge. Namely, how do we track what device is connected to what input? There are three key challenges: The TV only has inputs numbered 1-8, which isn’t helpful. Some devices publish a name via the HDMI spec, such as the AppleTV....

Long-time Twitter and now Mastodon friend @Franksting has a new blog, and he’s started with a topic near and dear to me: If a product team has done a good job, users will clearly understand a new feature’s value and they can turn it on whenever they choose. And this, which should be stapled to the forehead of every manager and decision maker...

One thing I didn’t do in my twenty-year anniversary post was thank the specific projects and software that make this blog possible. I apologise for this massive oversight! The Hugo static site generator is the first one I want to call out. I’ve bounced around almost a dozen CMSs here since 2004, but I’ve been on Hugo since 2016. I first moved to...