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Retractable Cable USB-C Chargers (65W PD) Like all my other modern electronics, my Framework Laptop1) charges via USB-C. When I got it, I bought a Ugreen Nexode charger, an Anker Powerline Flow III cable and 3D printed an oganizer for it. It works, but the result is a bit bulky and the cable is already showing some wear from being pinched by the organizer. So when I came across a 65W charger with a built-in retractable cable, I was intrigued. Could such a charger be a good solution? When I…

PSA: Bubbles.town has a widget I am a big fan of bubbles.town, a relatively new website to make it easier to discover the indieweb of personal blogs. Sounds familiar? I run indieblog.page where the idea is that you can discover new blogs one random post at a time. Bubble's approach is a different one. Instead of showing you random posts, they want to “bubble up” the best posts by user votes, similar to what Reddit or Hackernews do. However unlike on those sites, the posts are not user submitted…

Pallet Wood Crafting Table One of my favorite YouTube channels is EpicUpCycling. If you don't know it, check it out. Jason builds amazing things out of pallet wood. I'm far from his skill, but he taught me not to throw away or just burn pallets. The wood might look shabby but with a bit of work you can make it into something beautiful. As fate would have it, Kaddi wanted a dedicated crafting table in the office and at the same time I had some pallets from recent deliveries - so why not give it…

Auto-Delete old Mails from GMail My inbox is a mess. While I manage to maintain a somewhat close to “Inbox Zero” at work, my personal GMail's inbox currently sits at 2,215 emails . A large amount of those mails are notifications of some kind, like from Github for example. GMail has some mechanisms to automatically sort mails and I do make use of that, but those filters are applied when the mail arrives only. For notifications I want to see the mail. So it should land in my inbox. Bu...

Old Game, New Clothes Back in university in 2003 we had to do a group project. I don't remember which course it was, but the assignment was pretty open. Basically as long as you coded something, you passed. I had just switched from my trusty Palm Tungsten E2 PDA to a Linux based Sharp Zaurus and I was missing a little puzzle game I enjoyed playing on the Palm. So my friend Frank and I decided to implement our own version. The Zaurus used QT as the graphics framework so we made it in C++ and QT.…