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Josip Medved

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Wago All the Way As someone who like to annoy folks doing an actual electrical work, I discussed topic of Wago connectors multiple times. First part of discussion is inevitably my (correct) pronouncation of Wago. It’s...

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Are you team Wago or a wire nut?

07.12.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
How Big Should a Linux EFI Be My β€œstandard” partition scheme is always, EFI, Boot, Swap, Data. I have been toying with an idea to swap EFI and Boot around but I stuck with the same order for a while now. However, sizes have change...

How Big Should a Linux EFI Be
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01.12.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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When Standard Is Not a Standard Having a standard is a beautiful thing. While US sockets are really shitty in general, I love how standardized they are. Every single apartment I ever lived in had the same double outlet setup. Its we...

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A story of confusing markers.

16.11.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Updating Framework's QMK Firmware New BIOS for Framework 16, brought also a problem. Every boot I got a message that my keyboard firmware is outdated. It was true, but also annoying warning as it paused the boot process. Normal person...

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Updating and recovering Framework keyboard

09.11.2025 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Forcing a reboot After messing with my remote server, there came a time for a reboot. Simple enough - but this time it ended in error. Call to Reboot failed: Connection timed out I’ve been using Linux servers for deca...

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Rebooting system that doesn't want to be rebooted.

20.10.2025 04:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reconnecting HDMI Switching my media PC from Windows to Bazzite went awfully uneventful. No issues whatsoever. At least for a while. My media computer is connected to TV courtesy of type-C HDMI output. And I verified h...

Reconnecting HDMI
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Making Bazzite work with my Samsung TV.

14.10.2025 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The New Controller With the new case sorted out, I decided onto a new power supply controller. Since I recently ended in the possesion of a few PhotoMOS device, I figured to check them out. While my own high-voltage MOS...

The New Controller
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Improvements to AuxPower1U controller.

22.09.2025 02:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New case for AuxPower1U My AuxPower1U project was over and all was great. But, one thing always annoyed me - the plastic enclosure. Don’t get me wrong, it is a nice enough enclosure when mounted. But, since power supplies do...

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A metal case for the old project.

14.09.2025 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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AuxFanControler (Take 2) This post is sponsored by PCBWay. As part of my AuxPower1U project, I already build a stand-alone 4-channel fan controller. And it works perfectly even now. But I did notice some issues when trying t...

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A new version of a stand-alone 3-channel fan controller.

31.08.2025 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Warning Me Softly I already wrote about post-quantum cryptography before. If you check the dates, you’ll see that this is not a new topic. However, it’s still quite common to see standard key exchange for SSH sessions....

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Post-quantum cryptography gets quite a boost with OpenSSH 10.1 warning.

24.08.2025 05:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Disabling AMD Turbo Boost Recently I upgraded my trusty Framework 13 laptop to AMD motherboard. It’s not my primary laptop mind you, but it does come handy whenever my F16 is too cubersome to lug around. For me, that often end...

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Intentionally decreasing AMX performance under Linux for head reduction and battery life.

10.08.2025 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Obtaining Hash as a Part of 11ty Build Last week I stated in post that I’m not singing my software anymore. So someone might be wondering how do I check I have executable coming from you. Well, together with that post I also added SHA-256 ...

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Validating downloads from your static site.

03.08.2025 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Not Signing Software Anymore I used to sign my software. And not with my personal code signing certificate - I used a β€œproper”, third-party one. Since my software offered here is freeware, this wasn’t really cheap - about $50 a y...

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27.07.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Speed Boost for Repeated SSH If you lead Linux life, you probably have a bunch of scripts automating it. Assuming you have access to more than one computer, it’s really easy to use SSH and execute stuff remotely. In my network, f...

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SSH go zooooom...

20.07.2025 06:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Console Log Format Pretty much every application I’ve created has some logging included. Mostly it’s just humble Debug and Trace statements but I’ve used more complex solutions for bigger apps. But one thing was lacking...

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Long overdue search for standardized log format in personal projects.

13.07.2025 04:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Just Screw It Sometimes something that ought to be simple might lead you to the wild goose chase. This time, I was searching for humble 2.5" SSD screws. And yes, this was the first time in my life I had to sea...

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What is the correct screw for you 2.5" SSD?

06.07.2025 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Framework HDMI Missing Sound Output After watching stuttering 1080p@60 video once too many, I decided to retire my old NUC5i3RYH and switch it with Gen 11 Framework board I had lying around. It was supposed to be a quick swap. Just take...

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A bit of HDMI troubleshooting

28.06.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Making Xiao into a Trmnl A while ago I got myself a Trmnl device. However, I didn’t really want to use it for its Trmnl capabilities (which are admittedly great). What I wanted is to use Trmnl firmware with my server. And sup...

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Getting Xiao e-paper screen working with Trmnl server.

22.06.2025 01:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Percentage Based on LiIon Voltage As part of my LocalPaper project, I wanted to have a battery indicator. However, Trmnl device I use reports only voltage, leaving conversion to percent reading to the software. So, how to convert it? ...

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How to estimate remaining battery in percent based on LiIon battery voltage.

14.06.2025 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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LocalPaper Ever since I got my first Be Book reader I was a fan of epaper displays. So, when I saw a decently looking Trmnl dashboard, I was immediatelly drawn to it. It’s a nice looking device with actually gre...

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Story of what it takes to roll your own ePaper dashboard

08.06.2025 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Getting SkiaSharp Running Under Alpine Linux While I am not using Alpine Linux for my desktop environment, I love it in containers. And C# pairs with it like a dream. Just compile it using linux-musl-x64 runtime and you’re golden. But, ocassiona...

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Getting SkiaSharp running under Alpine Linux.

31.05.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Making CSS URL Unique I already wrote how I switched to 11ty. For most of time, I am still in the honeymoon phase. Essentially the only major issue (still) remaining is missing public comment system. Whether I will solve t...

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Workaround for when your caching methods are a bit too optimistic.

25.05.2025 04:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Lock Object Lock statement existed in C# from the very beginning. I still remember the first example. lock (typeof(ClassName)) { // do something } Those who use C# will immediatelly yell how perilous locking ...

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Having some syntactic sugar is not a bad thing.

18.05.2025 02:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Modulo or Bitwise I had an interesting thing said to me: β€œDid you know that modulo is much less efficient than bitwise comparison?” As someone who spent time I painstakingly went through all E-series resistor values to...

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Is bitwise comparison indeed faster than the module and by how much.

10.05.2025 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Never Gonna BOM You Up .NET supported Unicode from its very beginning. Pretty much anything you might need for Unicode manipulation is there. Yes, as early adopters, they made a bet on UTF-16 that didn’t pay off since rest ...

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Ever repeating story wrapped in an UTF-8 string.

04.05.2025 03:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
CoreCompile into the Ages For one project of mine I started having a curious issue. After adding a few, admittedly a bit complicated, classes my compile times under Linux shot to eternity. But that was only when running with d...

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Dealing with long lasting CoreCompile step in .NET compilation

30.04.2025 00:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Custom StringBuilder Pool In my last post I grumbled about ObjectPool being a separate package. That was essentially the single downside to use it. So, how hard is to implement our own StringBuilder pool? Well, not that hard. ...

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- How to create the simplest alternative to StringBuilder ObjectPool -
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19.04.2025 03:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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To Pool or Not to Pool For a project of mine I β€œhad” to do a lot of string concatenations. Easy solution was just to have a string builder and go wild. But I wondered, does it make sense to use ObjectPool (found in Microsof...

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- A bit of performance analysis for C# StringBuilder and its ObjectPool bretheren -
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13.04.2025 03:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
LocoNS If one checks all the freeware stuff I made over the years, they might notice a theme. They are usually solving problem that only I seemingly have. And yes, this program one of those too. As many peop...

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Introducing as simple mDNS server that supports multiple names per IP.
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05.04.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Story of a Persistent Companion I am a fan of science fiction books and I rarely go toward other genres. I mean, why bother with dark present (or dark past) when you can read about dark future? But, I occasionally do read things tha...

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A really interesting reading, courtesy of @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social, telling a story of a companion we cannot get rid of - Tuberculosis. Now that is one toxic relationship described in really well written book.

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27.03.2025 03:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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