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Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Last updated: 23-06-2025

Analytics

I use Umami Cloud on my blog to check if anyone actually visits it…

Umami is an open-source and privacy-focused analytics service that collects basic usage information and can display it on some nicely looking dashboards. The data is stored in EU.

Information Collected

Umami automatically collects:

Page visits: Which posts you view and when
Referrer information: The website that brought you here (if any)
General location: Your country or region (not your specific location)
Device information: Your browser type, operating system, and device type
Website performance: How long pages take to load

What’s Not Collected

Personal information (names, emails, addresses)
Precise location data
Information that can identify you personally
Data about your activity on other websites

Your Privacy

Umami doesn’t use cookies
All data is anonymized
No personal information is stored
Your privacy is protected

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Saving Claude Artifacts to Obsidian Easily

Sun, 22 Jun 2025 16:45:00 +0000

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!

Yank to system clipboard in Obsidian (with Vim keybindings)

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 12:50:26 +0100

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.

Kind k8s cluster + Metrics Server

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:25:01 +0100

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…

Key names for i3 configuration

Sat, 03 Feb 2024 10:14:54 +0100

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:

; and reloading i3" loading="lazy" src="https://blog.kalandyk.xyz/images/linux-i3-keynames/semicolon-character-in-i3-config.png">

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

Xbox Wireless Adapter on NixOS

Sun, 19 Nov 2023 10:17:54 +0100

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

Installing Linux on Lenovo Thinkpad 11e Chromebook

Sun, 28 Feb 2021 09:31:40 +0100

Ufff, I haven’t been writing here for a while. But I’m back!

Few weeks ago I bought a Lenovo Thinkpad 11e Chromebook (at auction).

Why? I found out that you can install Linux on these devices, which are called Chromebooks. Also, I needed a more portable (and cheaper) device than my main “machine” (Lenovo Legion Y520), which could serve as a device for opening browser (Firefox) and terminal.

When it got delivered to me, I did installed a SeaBIOS (more later) and EndeavourOS on it for testing. And actually I was happy that Linux can work on it.

Recorded terminal session in README.md

Wed, 25 Nov 2020 10:58:54 +0100

For a couple of times I have seen a GIF with a terminal session, which showed the usage of a CLI program at its GitHub README.

I think that’s nice that creator shows how to do basic stuff with his/her app in this simple way (not everyone might have time to read what program does, so they can just watch that).

Lately I’ve been horsing around with my simple TUI program (for tracking InPost parcels) and yesterday I also added a similar GIF.

Splitting an audiobook

Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:19:28 +0100

Did you happen to buy an audiobook and all you got is one big mp3 file with a .cue file?

Why am I asking?

Because from time to time I buy an audiobook at Audioteka and as I prefer to have each chapter as a separate mp3, I have to split one audio file into smaller ones by myself.

But, hey, I can do it in terminal with mp3splt!

(There is also GUI option: mp3splt-gtk!)

WireGuard on Debian (server) + EndeavourOS (client)

Tue, 10 Nov 2020 09:59:26 +0100

Hey, recently I tried to setup Wireguard on vps with Debian 10 (as a server) and my laptop with EndeavourOS (as a client) and I decided to write it up, so someone may make use of it.

Server setup (Debian 10 buster)

Installing stuff

On Debian wiki we can find information that for Debian buster wireguard is available from Backports. As wiki says on another page, backports are recompiled packages from testing and unstable repository that cane be run on stable Debian distribution. But before we install wireguard from backports we need to perform some steps.

Mirror GitLab to GitHub

Sun, 01 Nov 2020 19:32:48 +0100

There are 2 kinds of mirroring in GitLab: pull (mirroring from another repo) and push (mirroring to another repo). Today I tried the second one!

For mirroring you need an already created repository on GitLab of course. Then it’s needed to create another one on GitHub.

When you have opened GitHub, you should also create PAT (Personal Access Token) by going into: Settings -> Developer settings -> Personal access token -> Generate new token. Type into Note some text (e.g. gitlab_repository_name) and select public_repo (under repo), then click Generate token and copy or leave open tab with shown token for later copy+paste (if you close tab, you won’t see the token again).

Spell checking in Vim

Wed, 28 Oct 2020 10:21:09 +0100

Is it possible to have spell checking in vim? No, it’s not. EOP (End Of Post).

I’m joking of course. It is!

How to do it?

The only thing you need to type is:

:set spell spelllang=en

or if you want spell checking for Polish language:

:set spell spelllang=pl

Note: when you set spelllang for language different than English, file with stuff for that language will be downloaded (if one is not already in ~/.vim/spell directory), so vim will prompt you some question like where to save that file (answering with default/only one option worked for me).

Dotfiles with Git

Tue, 27 Oct 2020 15:05:56 +0100

Having a backup version of config file is a nice thing to have when you screw something up. It allows you to experiment with adding new stuff to the file without ending a day with not working tool.

You’ve probably seen people sharing their dotfiles on Github accounts or r/unixporn at Reddit using git repos. At least I’ve seen.

So my first trial of backuping my config files was very trivial (but it did the job!). I just cpied i3wm config to created directory, initiated a new git repository and pushed that to the remote repo on Github. And you might think that’s not bad!