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Matto
This site is about my quest into open source software and unix-like operating systems. I like reading and writing, using open source software, coding in Lisp, using Gopher, riding a bicycle, and using IRC and Jabber (XMPP). I prefer plain text and use Emacs, vi, and ed.
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Books of February 2026 Below are the two books that I finished this month. I started a third one, but didn't like and decided not to finish it. Non-fiction The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner (1994)...
Translate Texinfo files using po4a Texinfo Texinfo is a brilliant hypertext system that predates HTML. You access it with info, which is a text mode application. The content consists of a number of nodes. Each node is an information...
Books of Januari 2026 I started this year with re-reading "Pattern Recognition". This is the first book that I re-read within a year. Because I really enjoyed this book, I followed it with the other two books of the Blue Ant trilogy. Non...
Books of January 2026 I started this year with re-reading "Pattern Recognition". This is the first book that I re-read within a year. Because I really enjoyed this book, I followed it with the other two books of the Blue Ant trilogy. Non...
A collection of internet evergreens I started a new web page, to publish a collection of awesome and inspiring web pages that are worth reading. Currently the collection is modest, I hope to build over time. Find this collection of...
denote-review Implement a simple review process for denote notes with denote-review How an Emacs package came into existence Systems in use Over time I have grown into using several different note systems next to each other, like taking...
Best of the Gutenberg books I read in 2025 Project Gutenberg is a fantastic treasure trove filled to the brim with over 75,000 books. In 2025 I read several books and short stories that are now in the public domain. Here are the most...
Added a blogroll like in the old days In the heyday of blogs, many blogs published a blogroll, often is a side bar. This was a list with which showed a selection of links other blogs. It showed the blogs that had recently been updated. I...
New category in the links The demise of the search engines and the embrace of untrustworthy, useless AI-generated results, optimistically referred to as "AI-powered" are upon us. The web is turning into a web for profit. Individual...
Joined the Generation Lissa! webring The Generation Lissa! webring is for people who learned how to build their own personal websites with code between the years of 1996 and 2005, and still run a personal space on the Internet. More...
Prosody XMPP server in the home lab Local XMPP server on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W This is an article about a local server only, not reachable from the internet. The differences with a XMPP server that is connected to the internet and does...
VNC on a OpenBSD virtual machine OpenBSD comes with the vmm(4) hypervisor and vmd(8) daemon. It is easy to create and install an OpenBSD virtual machine on an OpenBSD workstation. For more information, see the Virtualization page in the...
Install 9front in vm-bhyve on FreeBSD 9front 9front (or plan9front) is a fork of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system. 9front with Mothra and Netsurf vm-bhyve FreeBSD vm-bhyve is a great tool to create, install and manage virtual...
Adventures with OS X Mavericks in 2025 Running OS X Mavericks on an old mid 2013 MacBook Air Specs of the Macbook Air 1.3 GHz Intel Core i5 4 Gb 1600 MHz DDR memory Intel HD Graphincs 5000 13 inch TFT LED 1440x900 display 128 GB SSD...
Notational Velocity on OS X Mavericks The Linkdump No 74 on 82MHz had a nice introduction to the blogpost Getting Ready for the Winter. Part 1, Switching Technology on the blog Minutes To Midnight by Simone Silvestroni. In this great...