AliExpress-sold macropad ("Nvarcher CXT12e4 Four Knobs") with no included docs/software (at the time I purchased it 3 years ago, at least, now supported in QMK and vial).
This is the step-by-step log of identifying its firmware on a Mac and getting it working with Vial.
If you're on a linux machine, download the sources and compile I guess, I haven't tried it myself. I'll add it here when I try it.
(This doc is work in progress, not final in any way.
Things that work for me on my journies. I started using Claude Code around August 2025. Always used the TUI (I hate they call it a CLI, it's not), so I have no idea what of these suggestions would work for your setup. I have been working with Linux terminals for 95% of my professional career of 33 years so I have no problem with vi, but you do you :)
I am starting with an important primer on the pricing, the actual tech suggestions follow.
This document specifies a production-oriented implementation plan for a memory orchestration layer that sits in front of Mnemon and improves how agents retrieve, refine, and use graph memory. Mnemon should remain the persistent memory backend, while the new component acts as a query planner, retrieval orchestrator, re-ranker, and context packager for downstream agents.(Mnemon GitHub)(MCP architecture spec)
The recommended implementation target is an MCP server with a thin CLI for local debugging and batch experiments. MCP is designed around isolated, composable servers that expose focused capabilities to clients, which maps well to a memory orchestration service.(MCP architecture spec)([MCP memory server example](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/
| # Just the git aliases from bash-it, till I decide if I prefer the ones in the zsh plugin or not. | |
| alias g='git' | |
| alias get='git' | |
| alias got='git' | |
| # add | |
| alias ga='git add' | |
| alias gall='git add -A' | |
| alias gap='git add -p' |
Lately I moved to a new VPS to get better bang for the buck, old machine is called Carrie, new maching is RBG. I have many different installations, and they each needed different handling.
Using a naiive rsync between the two Debian machines I discovered the hard was that synching over /opt/docker-data (even while both docker and containerd were down) was not working because different versions use different storage metadata formats and such.
You can either export stopped containers, or commit them to images. You can export and import images,
Why? Don't remember.
Seriously! I haven't used one in years so I forgot. I remember one used to crash my browser, another slowed it down and leaked memory, a third one turned out to get sponsors in exchange for spying after the users, I just stopped trusting them all together and then came out the EFF's privacy badger and solved both ads and privacy. Yes, it has no slick UI for adding ad sources from a page, but I get to select which URLs are blocked, or just blocked for cookies, etc.
| @-moz-document url-prefix("https://mastodon.social/web"), url-prefix("https://mastodon.xyz/web"), url-prefix("https://social.tchncs.de/web"), url-prefix("https://awoo.space/web"), url-prefix("https://icosahedron.website/web"), url-prefix("https://aleph.land/web"), url-prefix("https://maly.io/web"), url-prefix("https://witches.town/web"), url-prefix("https://tooot.im/web") { | |
| // My personal look for tooot.im, Based on https://userstyles.org/styles/140852/mastodon-flat-dark-and-colourful | |
| .button { | |
| background-color: #d03010; | |
| } | |
| .button:hover, | |
| .button:focus, | |
| .button:active, | |
| .button:disabled { | |
| background-color: #E0401B; |
TL;DR: This doc is aimed at power users (or power user wannabes like me) that want a few more life improving toys to improve their GNU/Unix/MacOS work environment work for them more conveniantly or at least with more bells, whistles and pazzaz (All of the above for me, thanks).
It starts with a section for developer, but see the section about dot-files below for more general environment recommendations.