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Marek S. Ł.

@marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy

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Currently studying to get a PhD in helicopter flight simulation. [bridged from m5l.eu/u/marek on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Sooo, due to some multi-computer shenanigans I messed up my @beets@fosstodon.org music library. Luckily they decided to use #SQLite, so I could fix hundreds of records with a simple SQL query, all in the comfort of a graphical program that won't commit to the file until I ask it to :) What a […]

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

pic rel: you've inadvertently shown a slight interest in #selfhosting in my vicinity #meme

meme format "bro explaining" featuring a man excitedly talking and gesturing to a nearby woman with an absent expression

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Hey @zef@hachyderm.io, what do you use now to automatically update #docker containers? IIRC it was watchtower, but it's discontinued containrrr.dev/watchtower

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I keep being surprised by apps that get people interested in #selfhosting. Today wasn't the first time that showing specifically www.grampsweb.org really got a layperson excited about running a private server. Probably because family is much easier to relate to than abstract software

Open Source Genealogy

Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Today marks the first day when I had to review an LLM commit at $DAYJOB

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

I think I remember seeing a post somewhere on the #fedi about an #ActivityPub server that lets each user choose whether they show a text (Mastodon-like) feed on their profile, or image tiles (Pixelfed-like). But I can't find it now, ¿maybe it was a planned feature?

Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

Nagabywany przez przyjaciół popełniłem poradnik jak uruchomić od początku domowy serwer, zapraszam :) lukasiewicz.tech/blog/6 #selfhosting #Debian #Docker #Dockge

lukasiewicz.tech

Pierwszy serwer

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

I just configured a family member's #Android phone to connect with #selfhosting @nextcloud@mastodon.xyz! Thanks to their first-party app and @davx5app@fosstodon.org the phone is independent from the Giant tech company: contacts, calendar, to-do, photo backup, everything works automagically. The […]

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

#TIL that I can enable "Push to Create" in my @forgejo@floss.social instance. I just backed up many projects from a _Proprietary Service_ (which I might soon lose access to), using a single command for each project. It made me really appreciate the composability of CLI when I could type `git […]

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

Thanks to Lua with batteries included and mise-en-place I now have automatic setup for general-purpose scripting in #Lua. I just needed to learn how to set the package search path. #TIL

GitHub - lua-batteries/lua-batteries: Batteries included Lua and LuaJIT installation

Batteries included Lua and LuaJIT installation. Contribute to lua-batteries/lua-batteries development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

#TIL using #windows API from #zig code, and it's soo much nicer than its original #cpp. Function arguments (that are usually cryptically named integers) can be easily understood just by browsing their type definitions. Pointers are much more specific. Thanks Johnatan Marler for the zigwin32 […]

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2026

#TIL that I value natural light in an abode much more than I thought before.

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026

#TIL that by a fortunate not-quite-accident, the correct hand position over a #piano is the same as what you want from an ergonomic computer #keyboard

Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

#TIL to use the `gdb` debugger's command line, without any IDE. While less convenient, I'm glad I had this option when things got a bit unusual. Same thing happened to me with #git and Linux earlier. Now that I think about it, I'm surprised I learned `gdb` CLI so late.

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

#TIL that applications from @FlatpakApps@fosstodon.org integrate much better than Snap with the rest of my #KDE desktop in #Kubuntu. They appear correctly in the application launcher, keep being pinned to the taskbar through updating, and have better metadata in the Discover app.

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

I'm really tempted to use the Forester notes approach to writing my thesis. It is a very interesting approach to scientific writing, where (as I understood it) atomic ideas are described separate files that can be linked but also arranged into longer documents. The original is written in #OCaml […]

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2026

#TIL that learning in public can have many social impacts other than simply me organising my thoughts into content. Thanks to "Learning in Public" by swyx

Learn In Public

The fastest way to build your expertise, network, and second brain.

Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

> Trzy razy się przeprowadzić to jak raz spalić > > Moving thrice is like having one fire > #TIL a Polish saying

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

Having tried some more languages, it feels unreasonably good adding `const` to #Cpp methods

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025

Who could have guessed that running a #Python package sending data over #SocketIO to a page with #JavaScript ti render #SVG at runtime using two separate embedded Chrome processes could cause my #Godot #VR simulator to have performance issues? Well, once I became the person to guess that and […]

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025

I think I made a really nice setup for marrying technical #Markdown documentation with academic citations in #LaTeX. It was as simple as writing a little #Python script using a citation library (PybTeX) and then incorporating it into the build process. See it working at […]

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2025

It's been only four weeks and I really love using mise-en-place by @jdx@fosstodon.org So far I've used it for (chronologically): - switching between #Zig versions, I liked it more than the dedicated `anyzig` - #Python venv activation – it's silly but feels so good, and collaborates with uv - […]

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2025

Back online! My ISP was kind enough to give me a _learning opportunity_ in how I can manage access to my homelab. While I can't #self-host that by definition, I can at least have it on a VPS from a local company to resist monopolies :)

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2025

On the most recent episode of _"Spending the Same Amount of Time Automating Something as It Would Take to Do It by Hand"_ our protagonist finds himself exporting business cards for his colleagues with #Python and #Inkscape! Join the fun at […]

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2025

One thing I didn't realise about #TUI is that you can run them using #Docker with interactive terminal (`docker run -it`) to get crazy simple setup instructions. Yours sincerely, a fresh `menuconfig` user

Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2025

I just completed a #JavaScript application for #KaiOS feature phones that periodically reports the position. I was quite surprised I couldn't find anything ready made for my senior user, but it wasn't too difficult to make either. Live location is very sensitive data, but #selfhosting the […]

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2025

Bad `npm` and `make`, no sudo install for you two. And leave my `/usr/local` alone! It was the talk "How to Build Software From Source" from @andrewrk@mastodon.social where someone taught me what build prefix is. I think that's an example of why hanging around #zig language is so beneficial – […]

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2025

Recently tried astral.sh/uv tooling for #Python, and I think I'm switching over for the foreseeable future. What made me finally try something else than raw `pip` and `venv` was easy installing of multiple Python versions. I was completing a PR to a library that (admirably) wants to […]

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2025

Another day, another discovery of classic tool that does exactly what I want, this time it's `git worktree` for the rescue: I was working on updating a #cpp project to a newer #Qt version, but wanted to keep comparing to a #git tag from some time ago. The problem is that checking out a […]

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2025

I'm learning to be IDE-independent and appreciate #POSIX more. After a bunch of hunting for one failing file per each rebuild I came up with a magical solution. The incantation is: `find . -name '*.qml' | xargs sed -i 's/\(import [A-Za-z0-9.]*\)[ ]*[0-9.]*/\1/g'` Which translates to "please […]

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2025

Reject artificial intelligence, embrace sincere stupidity grugbrain.dev

The Grug Brained Developer

Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2025

@flamenco108@101010.pl czy jest w SteMi_J coś szczególnego co przechyliłoby szalę na używanie prawej ręki dla absolutnie świeżego mańkuta? Chodzi o nieuciekanie na inne poziomy? > Tempo pisania na razie niewiele mniejsze niż lewą, może warto by się uczyć równolegle obiema? > > ...najpierw […]

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2025

I'm still spending time getting a box, unpacking the parts,assembling it together and having the same feeling of satisfaction when all that's left is a spare screw. Boys don't grow up, we just change LEGO to #CAD

Photo of multiple aluminium extrusions and mounting hardware on the floor

The parts assembled into stairs in a laboratory

Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2025

Today's discovery: make #git history of Jupyter notebooks cleaner with this #python package: pipx install nb-clean nb-clean add-filter --remove-empty-cells --preserve-cell-outputs

Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2025

Just letting the users of FreeOTP #Android app know that I wasn't able to back up and restore my TOTP codes from it, which seems to be a long-standing issue that I somehow wasn't aware of. However I can highly recommend the FreeOTP+ fork which has some other nice features, but crucially, saves […]

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2025

Just found out that LibreOffice Draw can compress images in PDF - I definitely, categorically, undoubtedly never used a shady website for that...

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2025

Recently found a way to make it easier to save my graphical environment configuration with #Ansible and the like. Before I start adjusting the desktop to my liking, I run: inotifywait --monitor --recursive ~/.config This shows me what files are changed when I click "Apply". This way I […]

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Marek S. Ł. @marek.m5l.eu.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2025

> "How to interpret FFT output" is the aerospace version of "How to center a div" > Stolen from @gregorylakewood.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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