VimGolf is a challenge game where the goal is to edit a given piece of text into a desired final form using as few keystrokes as possible in Vim. Some time ago, I built a rough portable station using a Raspberry Pi and a spare monitor. It was initially used to play VimGolf at the SUSE Prague office and later repurposed for public events. It uses a custom VimGolf menu script and Ansible playbooks to make configuring your own VimGolf station easy.
The MDP-M905 is a small power supply by Miniware, known for their TS100 and TS80 series of smart soldering irons. The issue with the MDP-M905 is that it doesn’t work with USB-C chargers, only USB-A. This article describes a way to enable this missing functionality through good old-fashioned hardware hacking.
Me and some of my students have been spending free time in one of our classrooms, as we usually do, and we started thinking about hacking the ancient school voice announcement system – injecting a custom signal and playing our own audio throughout the whole building.
I got my hands on a Xiaomi Philips smart LED lightbulb (ESP8266) and my goal was to hack it, install custom firmware and effectively get rid of the Xiaomi botnet.
You might have attempted to replace the keyboard on your T430 and you broke the middle trackpoint button. Well, here is how to fix it.
Starting with the 30 series, ThinkPads got a new modernized keyboard and many poeple dislike it. Do not take me wrong, it is not a bad keyboard, but when compared to the older model, it has a plethora of issues. Luckily, it can be replaced with the classic 10–20 series keyboard.