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Hey! I’m Arek. I share useful tech findings and automation tricks.

  • You’ll find whatever interesting stuff I discover while tinkering with Linux 🐧, cloud ☁️ and code ⌨️

Saving Claude Artifacts to Obsidian Easily

Sometimes when I use Claude to research a topic, I end up with an artifact created, which I want to add to my Obsidian vault, so I can go back to it later. At some point, I got annoyed by the number of steps I had to execute to save the artifact: Create a new note in Obsidian Copy the artifact’s content Paste it Cut h1 header, and paste it as the title Add a property with a link to the Claude chat But I’ve found that I can make it quicker with… Obsidian Web Clipper! ...

June 22, 2025

Yank to system clipboard in Obsidian (with Vim keybindings)

If you use Obsidian, and you are used to using Vim, then you’ve probably enabled Vim key bindings in Obsidian’s settings. And everything was fine until you wanted to yank (copy with y) something from your notes, and paste in a different place (for example, in a browser). Your system clipboard didn’t paste yanked text, right? Well, you should expect that it won’t work - Yanking to system clipboard is not configured by default in Vim, and apparently, it’s not configured in Obsidian either. ...

April 3, 2024

Kind k8s cluster + Metrics Server

Some time ago I wanted to quickly spawn a local Kubernetes cluster to test something while I was practicing for CKA exam. I decided to give Kind a go - It’s a tool that allows you to run k8s cluster using a regular container runtime (such as docker or podman). Everything was kind of smooth experience until I needed to run kubectl top pods. I wasn’t able to successfully execute it, as to get any information about pods (and nodes) resource usage in a cluster, I had to install Metrics Server. And that’s the moment were an issue appeared… ...

February 27, 2024

Key names for i3 configuration

Sometimes I need to add a new shortcut in my i3 configuration file, for example to open a workspace when I hit Meta+;. But adding a character (;) in bindsym may result in an error, like below: So… How can key ; be declared in the configuration? Well, in the i3 documentation we may find the following: i3 allows you to bind either on keycodes or on keysyms (you can also mix your bindings, though i3 will not protect you from overlapping ones). ~ i3 User’s Guide - 4.4. Keyboard bindings ...

February 3, 2024

Xbox Wireless Adapter on NixOS

Here’s a quick how-to on using Xbox Wireless Adapter with NixOS Driver To play games with Xbox controller, you have to install a driver first. On Linux we can use xone which is an open-source one for Xbox One and Xbox Series accessories. Installation on NixOS is pretty straightforward, just add enable the driver by adding the following option to your /etc/nixos/configuration.nix: hardware.xone.enable = true; Then update your system state with: sudo nixos-rebuild switch The driver should be installed, but it’s worth rebooting the system at this point ...

November 19, 2023