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Andi Altendorfer, e-Matrix Innovations
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Altex
andi, 2022-01-05
Follow the altex project
If you’re interested in this project, you may follow it on Github
For short updates and announcments of new features, please follow the tag ax here.....
andi, 2022-01-04
new feature “private posts”
now you can add the tag private: as a list of atoms. each atom
can represent a username. the post will be visible for any user in
this list.
example%{title:"private posts",author:"andi",tags:~w/andi 2022 blog/,draft:true,private:~w/admin andi/a}....
Andi, 2022-01-02

Andi, 2021-12-19
Andi, 2021-12-13
Old Posts Imported, though, a lot of work in progress
I’ve imported the latest posts from old “iboard.cc”.
Still, there are issues with format and images.
In a few days, I’ll bring back the rest and will take
care about the format.....
Andi, 2021-12-12

Andi, 2021-12-01

Andi, 2020-09-14
I love Elixir and the implementation of protocols. Here is an example of how you
can implement a protocol for a given data type/structure.
What this example shows:
1st: There is a protocol named Usecase. It declares all functions of the
implementation of the protocol Usecase needs.
So, you can execute it like so:
Define a module for your use casedefmoduleDateUsecasedouseClean# <= this impl....
Andi, 2020-08-30
The last couple of weeks I ran ArchLinux and did a lot of “playing around with stuff”. Now, I finally decide, I will use ArchLinux for my daily workstation.
I did all of my investigations on a cheep AMD-PC. But now, as I know what I really want to be my workstation looks like, I installed ArchoLinuxD with i3wm on an 10 years old MacBookPro. The old MacBook doesn’t work with current OS X anyways. But look what....
Andi, 2020-03-20
Since I set up my little Linux box- after sticking with Mac for decades -I could manage
a simple and easy setup. The only thing that drives me crazy was the lack of “natural
scrolling.”
After a lot of research, try and fail, and hair scrambling, finally, here is how I
managed to get natural scrolling back (for all applications)
First, write a simple shell script.
# $HOME/bin/natural_scrolling
id=`xinput list | grep -i "Wireless Device Mo....