I tend to do a lot of things with some terrible, terrible bash scripts. Backups, listening to music, creating temporary virtual machines... and also, listening through my podcast backlog. This last one gets pretty complicated, and while looking into how to manage it, I discovered a bash script technique that surprised me.

• terminal
• bash

I run a 12TB RAID 5 array comprised of three 6TB hard drives. My RAID setup is defined in software, not hardware - which has served me well, as it has been migrated between three installs and two separate sets of server hardware. The raw drives have been added to a MDADM software RAID array, which is encrypted with LUKS, and partitions are managed by LVM.

• linux

I've been messing around with a markdown editor called Formiko. It provides a side-by-side markdown editor, much like Jezra's Markdowner. Why was I fooling around with Formiko if I already had a working solution?

• markdown
• linux
• troubleshooting
• wayland

TL;DR – Jump to the bottom to find the solution I installed Sway, my favorite Wayland compositor, on Debian Trixie several weeks ago. There were bumps along the way, as Wayland does things very differently than the X display server tha I'm used to… but overall I have been pleased with the results. That said, there has been one issue that had been a thorn in my side: my media keys did not work.

• troubleshooting
• sway
• wayland

With the Sway WM, you get a very sparse compositor (the Wayland equivalent of a window manager) and a lot of possibilities. Right out of the box, it is often just configured to open a terminal and navigate between windows and virtual desktops. But in daily use, I do miss a lot of the niceties of a more polished desktop. I usually end up coming up with solutions to these myself, which suits me fine!

• sway
• wayland