Eddie Dale

I was very inspired by this post from a few days ago, and decided to have a go at something along those lines for myself but for macOS and my Paper Pure. What is it? Inkbridge is a small terminal tool that turns the reMarkable into a pressure-sensitive drawing tablet for your Mac, over USB or Wi-Fi. It supports pressure, tilt, hover and the eraser end, and works in Photoshop and other apps. You can tune the pressure curve, area mapping and so on live in the terminal while you draw. What even is…

Doing those CMS updates. Updating Ubuntu on the server. Upgrading your PHP version. Upgrading the database. Getting rid of deprecation notices. Making sure all backups are running as they should. No stuck queues, no stopped daemons or cron jobs. Deployments still running smoothly. Its boring work, but I think it's the kind of stuff that really matters in the long run. Especially if you deal with clients and they pay you to be on top of it. Doing the "boring work", and not constantly having…

I've written before about the case for ephemeral workstations, and more recently about how I use Ubuntu Server, Herdr, Mosh and Tailscale. The whole setup is basically what is called a Thin client. In computer networking, a thin client is a simple, low-performance computer that has been optimized for remote desktop connections to a server-based computing environment. Why have two computers instead of one? I always strive for simplicity, so two computers instead of one does not come naturally.…

The last year I have been experimenting a lot with my computer setup. I used both Omakub and Omarchy for a while, and even tried Windows(!) and plain Ubuntu. All of the experimenting inevitably made me end up with the following setup: Macbook + Ubuntu Server, using Mosh, Herdr and Tailscale. Why back to MacOS? As much as I liked a lot of the Omarchy opinionated setup, I ended up having many small issues here and there that at the end of the day caused frustration and kept me from doing the…

Note to self. I've had the joy of bringing a few sites live the last days, and in one case it was a multi-site with 7 different domains. During the process I needed a simple overview of the DNS propagation status. Before I've used online sites for this kind of stuff, but this time i reached for a CLI way instead, which I ended up liking. I used the watch command in the CLI for this (installed via brew) to continually watch it. Example 1: Look up eddiedale.com, vasser.no and sans.supply every 10…

I wonder if the price hikes across the board on tech (memory, storage etc.) result in an increased focus on longevity and using devices for longer. Both on consumer level, but also on corporate level with updated policies to save costs. If so, I'm here for it. Of course the reason behind it is not great, but the reaction would be healthy. A lot of people have been buying new tech too regularly for a long time, and it's rarely out of necessity. Thanks for reading this post via RSS! If you have…

Bastian Allgeier talked about "brain lock-in" on his podcast interview with Working Draft and it stuck a bit with me. It came out from the discussions about "vendor lock-ins" when building software (Kirby CMS in this case) and the need to be cautious about building in dependencies, but Bastian interestingly extended the dependency idea to also cover oneself. Why did this podcast episode speak to me? I guess because I've been feeling a bit on those exact feelings the last few months. On my last…

Rafael Nadal at his best was incredible. The elegance of Roger Federer too. The dominance of Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic in their prime was equally impressive. Still, someone amazing in his own right, and far less known, is Mansour Bahrami. A successful doubles player hailed as "the Trick Shot King", he isn't hard to find on YouTube, where compilation after compilation captures the sheer joy he brought to courts around the world. Born in Iran and shaped by a nationwide tennis ban that…

Payment terminals, ATMs, Amazon, international transfers, currency exchange apps. Whenever you get the choice, never agree to an automatic currency conversion. It's called Dynamic Currency Conversion (DCC), and it works like an airport exchange booth bolted onto the payment. The terminal or ATM operator sets the rate, adds a markup, and keeps the difference. A Norwegian Consumer Council survey found Norwegians paid more 99.7% of the time, on average 7% extra. The rule: always pay in the…

For a really long time I was using the same setup for development. Basically a macbook and Sublime text. Then using DDEV for Craft CMS sites, and Laravel Herd for Kirby or general PHP/static sites. But things started to change when I dove into Omarchy late summer 2025. I really started to play with the idea of having more Linux in my life, and be a bit less locked to MacOS. Omarchy was a great adventure for me into Linux land, as I got knee deep into all kinds of configs and terminal…

One of the main issues I've had so far, is that I sometimes want to add a file from my mac to the remarkable, and still be able to interact with the graphical elements of it on the reMarkable. Simple example: Adding a pdf page with a circle as a pdf to the reMarkable only makes it a passive background layer by default. To the rescue is Drawj2d: https://sourceforge.net/p/drawj2d/ What I needed to install to get it up and running was: An updated version of Java (brew install --cask temurin) D...

It took me a long time to make the jump, but I finally did, and my god is the reMarkable tablet a joyful product. My long time colleague and friend have used the devices since they first came out, and have always been raving about them, but I always felt I have enough devices and my needs were met on the note-taking front with pen and paper. However over the last months I've been having issues with organizing all my handwritten notes and notebooks and it came to a point where I re-evaluated ...

"In traditional Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi centers on the acceptance of transience and imperfection." – Wikipedia It feels especially relevant now in AI-slop days, but I guess that knife could cut both ways. What I take out of it is that the imperfections of being human, on having opinions and a unique taste, are immeasurably valuable even though machines arguably can deliver more "perfect" solutions. Of course one could also make the counter argument that machines and their slop is itse...