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Taming the KDE Plasma Beast: Desktop Responsiveness on Arch Linux

Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

When your beefy Ryzen 9 system locks up during a simple pacman -Syu, something is very wrong. Here’s how to stop Baloo, ClamAV, and poor IO scheduling from hijacking your desktop.

Fingerprint Support on Lenovo Yoga 6 with Arch Linux

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Got a Lenovo Yoga 6 2-in-1 and frustrated that your fingerprint reader isn’t working on Arch Linux? You’re not alone. The standard fprintd package doesn’t include the necessary firmware for this laptop’s Synaptics sensor.

The Case of the Bloated Boot

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

When sudo mkinitcpio -P fails because your boot partition is full, you’ve got a fun problem. The culprit? That massive fallback initramfs taking up precious space on a tiny boot partition.

Sharing same Bluetooth device on Windows/Linux dual-boot

Sat, 14 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This is a guide written on how to share the same Bluetooth device(s) across Windows and Linux without having to uniquely pair each.

OpenPGP: Updating Key Expiration

Mon, 17 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

It’s a good idea to update your GPG key(s) before they expire. Mine is set to expire year, from whence I last updated the expiration. Let’s explore how this is done!

STM32F0 with libopencm3 - Part 1: Simple Timer

Wed, 12 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

After having reviewed Part 0 of this series, we can now explore controlling GPIO with the hardware timers! Other tutorials have used the Systick timer as a good introduction to adding a delay for blinking an LED. However, it is my belief that this leads to confusion for beginners and only opens the door to misunderstandings. That being said, we will be using timers and their associated GPIO ports with Alternate Function modes.

STM32F0 with libopencm3 - Part 0: Simple GPIO

Wed, 11 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

One of the simplest projects to get started with the STM32 microcontroller series: turn on the lights!

Auto-complete for libopencm3 in Emacs

Fri, 18 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

With some minor dependencies, it’s fairly straightforward in setting up your Emacs workflow to include IntelliSense-like auto-completion!

Installing a Hardened Linux Kernel (Arch Linux)

Tue, 30 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

It’s generally good security practice to ensure that you’re running a secure kernel, and the best way to do so is by running a hardened Linux kernel.

Password Checking Script

Sat, 13 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Having been inspired by the HIBP¹ password checker, I set out to write a script with the following goals:

Check for duplicate/re-used passwords
Check the strength of each password
Check passwords against the pwnedpass API

ThinkPad USB Port Fix

Thu, 28 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

From the moment that I first had my (used) ThinkPad X220, the bottom-right USB port nearest to the SD card reader had been broken. The pad (or bolster) was missing, along with 3 out of 4 pins having been completely broken off. Needless to say this required fixing.

OpenPGP: Best Practices (and Git)

Sun, 17 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

I decided to start signing my Git commits for personal, and work Git repositories. Currently, most third-party Git repository hosts only support signed commits and do not support signed pushes.

A Study in Aperture

Wed, 16 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

I found out recently that using the maximum aperture for a lens can have deminishing returns. Simply put: it makes the image look “soft”, or otherwise out-of-focus. In this post I aim to find out find the best acceptable aperture setting for a specific lens.

Installing Arch Linux with Full Disk Encryption (LUKS)

Wed, 19 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This is a guide written on how to install Arch Linux using LUKS for disk encryption, and Systemd-boot as the bootloader.

Make Your Ears Bern

Thu, 11 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

A colleague offered a pair of Bern Bluetooth drop-in headphones to me fore free, with the catch being: I had to fix them

Humble Beginnings

Thu, 21 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000

After running into too many road blocks I’ve decided to go with the Tranquilpeak theme for this site. Before this, I was really looking forward to using the Tracks theme (ported from WordPress)

About

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

About

I created this site as a way of showcasing my projects, or other general ideas. It’s a sort of engineering portfolio, if you will.

This site is built using the Hugo static site generator, with my fork of the Even theme. It is hosted on AWS. Deployment steps can be found in the site’s source code repository.

Contact

The icons at the bottom of each page on this site linking to my other sites such as social media pages, Git repositories¹, and email provide methods of how to contact me.