OpenWrt or How to give your router steroids

The OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices. Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application(…) Yeeeah baby! good soup! Have you ever hated your wireless router so much that you wanted to smash it to the wall because it is just a piece of useless shit? ...

May 6, 2022 · 7 min · 1448 words · Me

Ad Blocking, simple & fast

We all hate ads. According to Wikipedia, Ad blocking or ad filtering is a software capability for blocking or altering online advertising in a web browser, an application or a network. This may be done using browser extensions or other methods. So you have choices I am not going to detail but give the practical and useful information about the fastest and easiest way to block ads Browser extensions You need, always, no matter what, a web browser ad block extension. It will, of course, block ads only for the web browser. Main alternatives are: ...

April 27, 2022 · 3 min · 622 words · Me

Syncthing

I have been very very busy with work. Regardless COVID, I did homeoffice for about 2 weeks (and only due to suspicion of infection), work load increased considerably and therefore, I really abandoned this blog and I regret it, but I will try to keep writting it regardless the work. So, Let's start with the entry: Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, whether it is shared with some third party, and how it's transmitted over the internet. ...

April 24, 2022 · 4 min · 650 words · Me

Blog with Hugo (and GitHub Pages)

Hugo is one of the most popular open-source static site generators. With its amazing speed and flexibility, Hugo makes building websites fun again. That's in the Hugo website and I guess it's true, since I find it very easy to use to publish this dumb blog when I have the time to. Now, Hugo will generate the static site in your PC but how can you make it accessible from the Internet? Well… GitHub Pages is the savior. ...

January 3, 2021 · 4 min · 738 words · Me

Orgzly and never lose your notes again

I wanted to write a post about Orgzly for a few days, but I have been very busy these days. As I told in previous posts, I started using orgmode at work, but not for my everyday personal tasks… and suddenly I came across with Orgzly. Orgzly is an outliner for notes and to-do lists for Android devices! It basically allows you to write notes as in org-mode in Emacs, but in your phone —because you wont be carrying your laptop all day. ...

June 11, 2020 · 2 min · 296 words · Me