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Fix blurry firefox under wayland
2025-01-12

I have an HDPI screen with fractional scaling of 1.5, and firefox was blurry under wayland sway.

I tried all combinaison of environment variable but it was either zoomed in too much or still blurry.

I finally found the culprit, which is a firefox setting.

In about:config change the following setting:

widget.wayland.fractional-scale.enabled must be set to true

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Ensure no zombie process when esbuild is started from elixir
2024-11-12

I use elixir and the Phoenix Framework in many of my projects along with esbuild. While Phoenix includes an esbuild Elixir package that provides a streamlined "out of the box" experience.

But if you want full build customization, you need to write your own build file.

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I love email, so I rant about it
2024-09-16

I have a deep affection for email and regard it as one of the most crucial components of modern communication, and to some extent, society at large.

But email is badly treated. Yes, it has flaws, but it accomplished something unique: an universal way to contact someone, for free, from anywhere on the planet.

In this post, I will rant about email, about what I love and what I hate. Some of it will be constructive, while most of it will be a graybeard grumbling about how society ruined something great.

I will use the term email to speak of everything, from protocols to the user perspective. It is an over simplification, but I reassure you and I'll brag about it just now: I know "a lot" about emails.

Also, when I say you I mean developers, sysadmin, webmasters but never users. Users are sacred, users are never wrong, users are like babies in cribs and should be looked after. This is important and should drive our industry.

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How to use japanese text in latex
2024-06-22

 

Watching a file under OpenBSD
2024-04-27

I wanted to watch a file under OpenBSD to synchronize my PowerDNS database between two hosts.

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