I am often switching between a MacBook and a Linux desktop. From time to time I invest a bit of energy to nudge MacBook UX to be more like the UX I have on my Arch Linux installation. I mostly use command line tools so common UX is not that far of a stretch.

This article will overview various tools that I have found useful for this task.

Kai klausant kokios radijo laidos pasigirsta mintis kuri sužavi, pridedu tą laidą į mėgstamų laidų sąrašą. Tas sąrašas po truputį pildosi, bet taip ir lieka tik man matomas.

I had recently acquired three Google WiFi pucks to upgrade the networking setup in my current apartment. I have had a pretty good experience with Google WiFi when I set it up at my parents home almost a year ago.

I have recently started switching between my Arch Linux PC and MacBook for daily development. I am striving to have as similar user experience between the two machines as possible.

Užmačiau keletą žmonių sakančių, kad bitkonai neturi vertės, niekas jų vertės nekontroliuoja ar panašiai. Manau tokie argumentai kyla dėl informacijos stygiaus. Šiek tiek paskaičiau ir sudėliojau keletą argumentų, kodėl bitkoinai turi vertę.

Recently I found a need to visualize the way our team works with the SVN repository. I really like GitHub network graphs, so I started looking for a way to draw custom ones.

Hey, how are you doing? (: Since there was a week between the end of the GSoC and the start of my studies, I decided to do some hobby hacking.

I have some remote (50 km away) appliances (electric heater) that I would like to control from wherever I am. The SMS service is a very compelling solution for this kind of problem. The main challenge is to figure out how to make a mobile phone to a relay that can switch on and off things.

Hello,

while the code for generating charts for the status page and the profiling page was more or less trivial, code for the query results will be more complicated. This is because of the dynamic data structure that query results can have. You can get any number of rows and columns as a result. Also the data in the result is composite - there are strings, numbers, dates, etc.. Not everything is suitable for one chart or another.

Hey,

I have thought for some time that it would be quite cool to have the internet anywhere you go using the GPRS network. All of us carry some mobile phone device. Not all of us know that almost every mobile phone can be connected to the PC and be used as a modem for GSM or even GPRS data transfer. Even better, mobile phone can be connected to the PC using Bluetooth - no unnecessary cables! When I saw that my carrier (Tele2) allows me to use 1 GB for 1 LT (~0.3 EUR) every month I decided to figure out how to put everything together.

Hey, today is the day when students all around the world start to officially write code and blogs for Google Summer of Code project. This also has to include me.