I wanted to make a logo and 88x31 button for my website, but I can’t draw. Let’s see if I can get ImageMagick to do it for me.
Imagemagick Shenanigans

Hello, world!
Welcome to my little piece of the internet.
I sometimes write posts about things that interest me. You can find them below, or you can browse by category or tag

I wanted to make a logo and 88x31 button for my website, but I can’t draw. Let’s see if I can get ImageMagick to do it for me.

This has been a part of my life for a long time now, and I’m tired of hiding

Every now and then, I get hit with the urge to make this website prettier. What is prettier you ask? Good question. I’m not sure; I think it just means making it look less like the template I’m using. Add something ✨unique✨.
As is the case every time, I’ll have been browing other peoples’ websites which are all super creative and unique looking and have that extra bit of flair that my site lacks.

Enabling Full Disk Encryption on an existing Fedora Workstation installation without having to re-install, and then ensuring everything is unlocked automatically at boot.
I volunteered as first aid provider at an event, this is how it went.

Me rambling about the climate impact of using computers for work and pleasure
The default dead keys setup in linux doesn’t work for me as a multilingual Dutch/English person. But a better one exists.
Every Linux distro got one thing wrong for me, so I made my own locale
I once again had to convince myself that other people deserve the same level of privacy that I want for myself.

Over the past months, I’ve spent quite some time and effort migrating my whole digital presence away from US-based companies. I won’t go much into the reasons, but I’m sure you can imagine several yourself. Primarily, I just think it makes sense to support the economy in which I live, instead of one on the other side of the planet which is governed by politicians I can’t influence with my vote.