André Klein
@andreklein.net
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Writer, publisher, procrastinator … (will finish bio tomorrow) 🧉
https://andreklein.net
Was pleasantly surprised to see today that BookFusion supports #epub media overlays (the account requirement on Android is a bit meh, but hey, in a world where support is still rare and few, I'll allow it.) Added to the list:
https://smplu.link/2bcuS
1 day ago
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No, #KDE 6.6, you will not break my filtered taskbar. You'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands. Shim issued:
https://github.com/burninc0de/kde-filtered-taskbar/
#plasma
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GitHub - burninc0de/kde-filtered-taskbar: Plasma 6 widget for creating custom taskbar with app-based filtering.
Plasma 6 widget for creating custom taskbar with app-based filtering. - burninc0de/kde-filtered-taskbar
https://github.com/burninc0de/kde-filtered-taskbar/
1 day ago
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As an indie-publisher of language learning materials, creating bullet-proof glossaries involves a lot of manual labor and tedious cross-refs. Just built a vocab "linter" or "pre-compiler" so I can get early hints about duplicates, lapsed entries, etc. Real game-changer.
#indiepub
5 days ago
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Too many brave agents ventured into my TUI and got trapped; forever lost to the void. So I wrote them a warning:
https://github.com/burninc0de/helowrite/commit/3e412809c1337905f602825a93baf97744a1ac0b
#hicsuntdracones
#llm
(let's hope they will listen)
5 days ago
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Took an old laptop yesterday, set up clean arch install, onboarded
#OpenClaw
, gave it the keys to the kingdom (passwordless sudo) and told it to go nuts. The result: it hallucinated creating files, downloading pacman packages while disk stayed untouched. "it's so over", lmao
7 days ago
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fun little tray app that lets me see at a glance exactly how fast Github Copilot is burning through premium requests:
#copilot
#llm
#kde
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8 days ago
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"Windows Web Experience Pack" is peak corporate gaslighting. It’s like calling a tapeworm an "Internal Nutritional Management Consultant." Keep B-list celebs and "breaking news" off your system! The solution: powershell(admin) -> winget uninstall "Windows Web Experience Pack"
8 days ago
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Compiling vocabulary glossaries for my language books and manually checking them for continuity is always a huge PITA. Currently working on an automated Vocabulary Analyzer that can spot these issues for me (regex for the win).
#indiepub
#languagelearning
9 days ago
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Update: My side-project for shouting into the fragmented hellscape is now my daily driver. Features a mixed feed for Bsky/Mastodon and a noise filter for Masto. X is still there too, though their API treats requests like Leprechaun gold. Read:
https://andreklein.net/socialsox/
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I Built My Own Damn Crossposter Because Social Media Is a Fragmented Hellscape
Social media is so insanely fragmented right now it's honestly comical. Remember 2009? (15 years ago ... how?) I joined Twitter and it felt like the future. Even Facebook—yes, Facebook—was...
https://andreklein.net/socialsox/
10 days ago
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Running a fully riced, headless Arch on WSL feels like an OS organ transplant Microsoft didn’t authorize. 30ms cold starts and 0% bloat. It’s pure blasphemy, and I’m never going back. 💀🔥
#archlinux
#wsl2
#riced
10 days ago
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In today's episode of making WSL suck less: stealing the excellent CachyOS fish config, specifically alias ls -> eza to get a bit of color into file listings. Notes here:
https://andreklein.net/taming-wsl-into-a-tactical-workbench-for-a-terminal-first-workflow/
#wsl
#cachyos
10 days ago
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When did it become normalized for people to post tutorials on Medium that hits you with a paywall as soon as you look at it twice? What's so bad about posting on your own blog?
#medium
#tutorials
10 days ago
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Trying to open source a Copilot usage tracker just as Copilot goes down. Guess the AI realized I was tracking its ROI and decided to quit before I could call BS.
#copilot
#github
11 days ago
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After I spent the day yesterday ricing my WSL-workflow (check blog for notes) developing native TUIs on Windows is beginning to feel a LOT more palatable.
#wsl
11 days ago
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CachyOS taught me to embrace the terminal. I tried to reverse-engineer that workflow on Windows and failed. Until I rediscovered WSL, but optimized for raw speed:
https://andreklein.net/taming-wsl-into-a-tactical-workbench-for-a-terminal-first-workflow/
#windows
#wsl
#terminal
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Taming WSL into a Tactical Workbench For A Terminal-First Workflow
Last year, I moved to CachyOS on my laptop. I expected a different Kernel. I was ready to do some things differently. What I didn't expect was a total disruption...
https://andreklein.net/taming-wsl-into-a-tactical-workbench-for-a-terminal-first-workflow/
12 days ago
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Another little TUI for my CLI-zoo: Github Copilot PRU usage tracker / and a little tray app for handy reference
#devtools
#copilot
13 days ago
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🎉 New relase: SocialSox v03.0.1 with reworked Layout, brand new unified Home Feed (mix Bluesky&Mastodon) and more:
https://github.com/burninc0de/socialsox
#social
#bluesky
#mastodon
- My favorite feature: filter languages on ALL Masto timelines, not just public ones
13 days ago
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Some more context about how I hacked together my own "native tabs"-like VS Code functionality for KDE:
https://andreklein.net/vs-code-native-tabs-linux-kde/
#linux
#development
#kde
#plasmoid
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How to get VS Code "Native Tabs" on KDE Plasma (Linux)
When you're juggling three repos in VS Code and a dozen browser tabs, Alt+Tab becomes a game of Russian Roulette. You’re looking for your frontend, but you end up staring...
https://andreklein.net/vs-code-native-tabs-linux-kde/
14 days ago
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Some different uses cases for KDE Filtered Taskbar
https://github.com/burninc0de/kde-filtered-taskbar
- fast switching between VSCODE projects - "pin" terminal and browser for faster access Alt+TAB? Sure, but this can get messy if you have twenty apps running.
#KDE
#productivity
15 days ago
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🚀 Just open-sourced Filtered Taskbar Widget for KDE Plasma 6! Originally built for native VSCode project tabs, now filter tasks by any app for a distraction-free workflow. Install:
https://github.com/burninc0de/kde-filtered-taskbar
#KDE
#Plasma
#OpenSource
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GitHub - burninc0de/kde-filtered-taskbar
Contribute to burninc0de/kde-filtered-taskbar development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://github.com/burninc0de/kde-filtered-taskbar
15 days ago
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After being spoiled by Kitty on CachyOS I dug a bit deeper today into Windows Terminals. - left: WezTerm - right: Tabby - bottom: Alacritty WebGPU and Harfbuzz support on Wezterm is goated.
#linux
#terminal
#windows
#wezterm
16 days ago
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A bit of polish, streamlined settings and notifications for that sweet terminal writing life:
https://github.com/burninc0de/helowrite
#writing
#tui
17 days ago
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me: opens PDF, prints, tries to close the PDF Adobe Acrobat: "Oh no, file is dirty now, would you like to save your changes?" can't make this up ...
18 days ago
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A few of you asked about the TUI editor from yesterday. I finished the README, squashed the messy history, and kicked it out the door. Clone, fork, or hack it here:
https://github.com/burninc0de/helowrite
#tui
#writing
#python
18 days ago
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Some thoughts about the why and how behind my TUI weekend project writing tool, and a shiny new vid:
https://andreklein.net/heloscribe-a-terminal-word-processor-built-in-a-weekend/
#writing
#tui
#terminal
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HeloScribe: A Terminal Word Processor (Built in a Weekend)
Writing is hard. It's messy, unresolved, chaotic. You scrape scenes out of your skull and massage syntactical turds until they shine (or get thrown out in the next rewrite). Code...
https://andreklein.net/heloscribe-a-terminal-word-processor-built-in-a-weekend/
19 days ago
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Messing around with Floyd-Steinberg vs Atkinson for 1bit dithering for e-ink picture frame. fascinating stuff. Love that lofi crispness of Atkinson's (img2). The irony: needing @numba_jit just to get 1984 code running at the speed it was designed for in 2026.
#eink
#lofi
about 1 month ago
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I don't know about the plot of Tron: Ares but it's a nice 1:50h music video for the new Nine Inch Nails album. Also cool to see that the Dillinger grid runs on systemd:
#linux
#tronares
systemd
#nin
about 2 months ago
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Tried adding a quick Hebrew note to a PDF. 30 secs job, right? Paste and move on. 1 hr later: 10 AUR packages deep, Okular and MasterPDF reversing Hebrew (because reasons), Xournal and LibreDraw just quietly dying. Linux PDF + RTL = pure suffering
#rtl
#hebrew
#linux
about 2 months ago
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“We used to deliver Christmas on a single php file over FTP”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMoql_RYVBQ
#prodwithoutastagingenvironment
#webdev
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Santa Claus on delivering 99% Uptime
Interview with a Santa ClausInterview with a Santa Clause in 2025 with Santa Wallis - aired on © The Christmas.Programmer humorProgramming memesJavascript hu...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMoql_RYVBQ
about 2 months ago
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Set up a pristine DietPi config on a brand new Pi -- PiHole, JellyFin, Samba, etc., all dialed in perfectly --only to snap the SD card while jamming it into a custom case. Murphy's Law strikes again.
#RaspberryPi
#TechFail
#DietPiDisaster
about 2 months ago
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"Smurfahontas": A 3-hour nightmare of recycled tropes, zero stakes, and graphics that look like ... spit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQc0KEk9V74
#epicrant
#avatar
#fireandash
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Mark Kermode reviews Avatar: Fire and Ash
#MarkKermode #SimonMayo #FilmReviewsJake and Neytiri's family grapples with grief after Neteyam's death, encountering a new, aggressive Na'vi tribe, the Ash ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQc0KEk9V74
2 months ago
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About time! Nobody likes gatekept "access-license-only" content: "Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks" -
https://www.kdpcommunity.com/s/article/New-eBook-Download-Options-for-Readers-Coming-in-2026?language=en_US
#epub
#indiepub
2 months ago
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how it started: "let's build a quick masto/bsky/twit crossposter, quick 15 min adventure" how it's going: *builds feature-rich unified social desktop client*
#socialsox
#buildinpublic
2 months ago
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atticus goldfinch
2 months ago
I continue to think LLMs are absurdly powerful for learning, and I'm using them more often for it. The problem is that a lot of people don't have solid metacognitive skills around epistemics and autodidactism. You've got to have a handle on what you know, how you learn, and if you're learning.
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My real skill as an author isn't writing, it's taking procrastination to ever newer creative heights, so I almost convince myself it's productive.
#writinglife
2 months ago
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Currently reading ...
#spinaltap
#theboss
2 months ago
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Interesting talk about desktop UX:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZTOjd_bOQ
#linux
#desktop
#ubuntu
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Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10
This talk focuses on that evil little term “UX/UI,” which is responsible for so much confusion and tension in open-source projects. Not only does it unnecess...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZTOjd_bOQ
2 months ago
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Continuing to build out the unified Home Feed that shows merged Bluesky/Mastodon in SocialSox: - exclude languages from your feed - follow/mute/block/boost/reply - slide for mixing Bluesky/Masto items
#buildinpublic
#bluesky
#mastodon
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2 months ago
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Nice! Anthropic just donated its Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the Linux Foundation. Real open-source infra & agent interoperability just leveled up.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation
#Linux
#AI
#llm
#claude
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Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation
2 months ago
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At this point I'm convinced AWS & Google Cloud console GUIs are deliberately designed as obtuse labyrinths so you’ll inevitably flip the wrong toggle, enable a hidden service, and get quietly nickel-and-dimed to death by micro-requests.
#webdev
#aws
#googlecloud
#serverless
2 months ago
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Any kind of for-profit marketing messaging feels out of place on Mastodon/Bluesky, and that's a good thing
#fediverse
#mastodon
#bluesky
2 months ago
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Martin Kleppmann
2 months ago
I think software engineering will be needed as much as ever, but it will probably move to a higher level: less worrying about individual lines of code, more thinking about the overall properties that a system needs to satisfy, and finding ways of specifying those properties precisely.
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I love how seo guestpost spammers still lead with: "[dear site owner] The content on your site is amazing and thought-provoking..." Really Jane? Could have at least let some LLM run over some articles to pretend you've actually read anything. Come on, these are low hanging fruit!
#seo
#spam
#webdev
3 months ago
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well put
add a skeleton here at some point
3 months ago
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Experimenting with bringing a merged Bluesky/Mastodon feed straight into SocialSox - nice side-bonus: now i can finally filter for certain languages
#buildinpublic
#mastodon
#bluesky
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3 months ago
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Isaac Corbrey
3 months ago
I made a thing
sidetrail.app/@isaaccorbre...
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learn to code
It's fun and you should try it
https://sidetrail.app/@isaaccorbrey.com/trail/3m7e7zgmo6h2d
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Higher education isn’t dying because kids use ChatGPT. It’s dying because we’re still grading like it’s 1895 and pretending Google never happened.
https://andreklein.net/ai-isnt-killing-learning-our-standards-were-already-on-life-support/
#education
#edchat
#edtech
#teaching
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AI Isn’t Killing Learning. Our Standards Were Already on Life Support
You’ve probably seen that Current Affairs piece making the rounds, the one that declares higher education dead because “students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them,...
https://andreklein.net/ai-isnt-killing-learning-our-standards-were-already-on-life-support/
3 months ago
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🚔 PSA: "The Darkside Detective" point-and-click adventure is currently free on Epic. Takes me back to the good old days of Zak McKracken and ManiacMansion. Witty, without being too on the nose.
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-darkside-detective-ios-f97bd7
#pixelart
#indiegames
3 months ago
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KarpeSlop: "The AI Slop Linter that Andrej Karpathy wishes existed" lol
https://github.com/CodeDeficient/KarpeSlop
"go forth and purge the slop." 🦸
#slopocalpyse
#vibecoding
#typescript
#react
#next
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GitHub - CodeDeficient/KarpeSlop: The AI Slop Linter that Andrej Karpathy wishes existed
The AI Slop Linter that Andrej Karpathy wishes existed - CodeDeficient/KarpeSlop
https://github.com/CodeDeficient/KarpeSlop
3 months ago
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Spotify Wrapped dropping and everyone's flexing their “top 0.05% of Taylor Swift fans” like it’s a Nobel Prize. Just say no to the algo overlords. Slap Jellyfin on a dusty old PC and flex on Big Music forever:
https://andreklein.net/make-your-own-spotify-with-blackjack-and-hookers/
#Spotify
#music
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Make Your Own Spotify, With Blackjack And Hookers
Earlier this year I found myself at a crossroads. Spotify's recommendation algorithms hadn't been what they used to be for a long time. I noticed they kept serving up the...
https://andreklein.net/make-your-own-spotify-with-blackjack-and-hookers/
3 months ago
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