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

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 artifactâs content Paste it Cut h1 header, and paste it as the title Add a property with a link to the Claude chat But Iâve found that I can make it quicker with⌠Obsidian Web Clipper! ...
If you use Obsidian, and you are used to using Vim, then youâve probably enabled Vim key bindings in Obsidianâs 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 didnât paste yanked text, right? Well, you should expect that it wonât work - Yanking to system clipboard is not configured by default in Vim, and apparently, itâs not configured in Obsidian either. ...
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 - Itâs 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 wasnât 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 thatâs the moment were an issue appeared⌠...
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 Userâs Guide - 4.4. Keyboard bindings ...
Hereâs 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 itâs worth rebooting the system at this point ...