matto.nl
matto.nl
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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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...
Spellcheck in Emacs on OS X Mavericks with MacPorts The MacPorts Project provides thousands of ports that greatly simplify the task of compiling and installing open-source software on a Mac. It is easy to install MacPorts. Once MacPorts...
Quickly transpose sentences and paragraphs using key bindings in Emacs Emacs has several fantastic functions that offer you superpowers when it comes to text editing. Not all of these functions come with default key bindings. To make...
Moving the feed from index.rss to index.xml After reading Google is killing the open web I started to style my RSS feed using XSLT. Unfortunately, web browsers won't open a file with the extension "rss", but just offer to download it....
Manage remote vm-bhyve guests with OS X Mavericks VNC client FreeBSD vm-bhyve is a great tool to create, install and manage virtual machines. vm-bhyve is designed to work with ZFS, which makes it very easy to create new vm's, and make...
Joined the netizen club webring The netizen club maintains a webring focused on websites that are able to be viewed in older computers. More about the webring. The web has become non-inclusive Sadly, the web has become mostly...
Elisping like it is 1998 GNU Emacs has been around for over forty years, and it has evolved tremendously during that period. Additional functionality was added, and new packages were created. Elisp also expanded with additional features....
My-Mind: a wonderful self-hosted mindmap web application My-Mind is a simple but effective web application for creating and managing Mind maps. My-Mind is free and open source, distributed under the MIT license. Small feature set and...
OpenBSD 7.7 on Acer Aspire ES 15 The Acer Aspire ES 15 is a laptop from about 2020. Some specs: CPU: Intel Celeron N3050 Display: Glossy 15.6 inch, with a resolution of 1366x768 RAM: 4GB This laptop has a 'normal' keyboard and a...
Switched to the EXWM window manager After about two decades using the ratpoison window manager, the original tiling window manager, I switched to the EXWM window manager on my laptops, running FreeBSD. EXWM EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager)...