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Conway in Bash

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200

I’ve added a new version to my venerable Polyglot Conway project, this time as a good old Bash script, a version bootstrapped with the help of ChatGPT.

Cute Battery on your tmux

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0200

Just like last week, let’s add some more information to our tmux status bar: this time, the current battery level.

Weather on your tmux

Fri, 26 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0200

People have asked me how to display the weather on the status bar of my tmux session, as shown in a previous post of this blog.

OpenShift Local CRC From Another Machine

Fri, 13 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0200

During the preparation of my “Learning OpenShift” course for LinkedIn Learning, I used OpenShift Local (formerly known as “CodeReady Containers” or CRC) to demonstrate the various features of the platform from a developer’s point of view.

How to Use Demo Magic

Fri, 25 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100

My colleague Tobru recently pointed me to demo-magic, and I now seriously wonder how could I ever do a live demo without this. The description of the project says it all:

Polyglot Conway

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0100

My personal project during the pandemic was Conway, a project providing implementations of Conway’s Game of Life in as many programming languages as possible.

FFmpeg Tips and Tricks

Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0200

Here’s a small selection of cool things you can do on Linux with FFmpeg.