André Klein

Strata file manager is a thing of beauty #linux

Every day another vibecoded Photoshop seems to drop. I tested some of them: https://andreklein.net/vibecoding-photoshop-time-and-pressure/ #photoshop #adobe #vibecoding

New tutorial on the blog for making CrowdSec work well with CloudPanel: https://andreklein.net/crowdsec-on-cloudpanel-mind-the-log-format/ #crowdsec #cloudpanel

Writing drafts in terminal doesn't have to be a hassle. Added some "normie" creature comforts for bold, italic and links to HeloWrite. https://github.com/burninc0de/helowrite/

New #linux users: note down every config change you make to your system in a text file (or have your agent do it if you're lazy). You'll thank me later.

3 step is a vibe #house #musicfriday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evL6qxKvPmc

Got a new drafting buddy:

Got MFA sign-in requests from Helsinki, Washington, and Paris over multiple weeks. Changed my password. Switched to passwordless. Still got spammed. Turns out that's by design. https://andreklein.net/microsoft-authenticator-spams-sign-in-requests-without-even-needing-your-password/ #microsoft

My Zenbook 14 had no firmware for auto-dimming keyboard backlight on Linux. So I wired up my own tiny daemon + ambient light dynamic screen brightness. Works better than whatever ASUS ships for Windows. https://andreklein.net/asus-keyboard-backlight-dimming-on-linux/ #linux #asus

Native gesture support on Hyprland has gotten so good. I still remember having to fiddle with Fusuma not too long ago. Keybinds can be cumbersome on laptop. Why not key "swipes" for core operations? #hyprland #linux

Just throwing this out here in case anyone else stumbles over it: https://andreklein.net/asus-keyboard-backlight-dimming-on-linux/ #linux #asus

HeloWrite 0.8.85 updated for Omarchy Quattro theme awareness #linux https://github.com/burninc0de/helowrite

Dusted off my little hyprland dock and packaged it as fully theme-aware Omarchy plugin: github.com/burninc0de/b... #linux #hyprland

Oh really? Amazon has turned into a pay-to-play platform? It's been like that for years, Seth. https://seths.blog/2026/08/the-amazon-tax/ #indiepub #amazon

Spent a day thinking opencode's provider infra was broken. Constant timeouts. Turns out my ISP quietly boofed IPv6 routing and bun's Happy Eyeballs implementation was marching straight into a black hole. Pi was working fine throughout. Silver lining: using pi as daily driver now.

New in epub-moe 1.2.0 - Undo history! Quickly undo/redo any changes made to text or audio fragments in your audio-enhanced EPUB. Keyboard or mouse driven. https://github.com/burninc0de/epub-moe #epub #indiepub

My new quickshell Lockscreen plugin now has some funky new animations and is published on the #Omarchy marketplace: https://omarchyplugins.com/plugin.html?id=burninc0de.lock #linux

WordPress runs 41% of the web. Not because it's the best CMS, but because millions of people could easily build on it. Omarchy just made the same bet with quickshell plugins. https://andreklein.net/omarchy-quattro-is-the-wordpress-of-linux-distros/ #Linux #Omarchy #WordPress

It's crazy how easy it is on Omarchy Quattro to create custom plugins like this bespoke lock screen for example. #linux #omarchy

Just upgraded to Omarchy Quattro: love what they did with quickshell. No more hyprlock, elephant, walker, waybar etc. Finally threw out a bunch of old PY/QT tray utils and replaced with proper plugins for coretemp, opencode or even my old abraunegg/onedrive monitor. #linux

Finally completed the UI overhaul of epub-moe for v.1.1.0 - integrated design system, modernized buttons and panels, custom themes for the editor #epub #talkingbooks #buildinpublic https://github.com/burninc0de/epub-moe

Just dropped release 1.0.8 of my EPUB Media Overlay Editor with a UI overhaul, bunch of QoL updates, new settings, etc. Check release notes for details. https://github.com/burninc0de/epub-moe #epub #smil #indiepub

Scammers are chaining forgotten CNAMEs to create fully authenticated phishing firehoses. Valid crypto means nothing when the pipes are rotten. https://andreklein.net/dns-debt-how-phishing-campaigns-pass-dkim-without-hacking-anything/ #InfoSec #CyberSecurity #DNS #EmailSecurity

Ideas are cheap. Focus is hard. Coders figured this out years ago: nothing beats the terminal when you just want to write. So I built a TUI specifically for authors. helowrite v0.8.79 is out: https://github.com/burninc0de/helowrite #WritingCommunity #Terminal #Linux

Ditching React Router for wouter in client SPAs and Electron apps is top-tier dev catharsis. Turns out matching a URL string to a UI component doesn't require a full-stack meta-framework. Who knew? #react

Why reading raw server logs beat any shiny dashboard once you tune out the noise: https://andreklein.net/your-logs-are-crawling-with-ants/ #selfhosted #sysadmin #nginx

lnav is so ridiculously good for digging through raw logs (nginx, syslog, etc.) and make them actually readable! if you need to chain multiple ones, do quick filters, all just a keybind away. It really is the "htop for logs". Can't believe I discovered it only now. #linux

GDPR: you need consent to write an anonymous cookie to my browser. meanwhile: every site logs your real IP and user agent, indefinitely, no "tracking pixel", no consent needed. But sure, tell me again why cookies are the problem.

Ah yes: bedtime slop! just what we needed https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/meta-is-testing-an-ai-bedtime-story-app-for-people-with-no-imagination/ #creativewriting #slopocalypse

just stumbled on this writing bootcamp taught out of a bunker in the Galilee. no affiliation, just think more people should know about it: https://terminal-legacy.pages.dev/ #WritingCommunity #amwriting #copywriting #creativewriting #IndieAuthor #WritingTips #WritingLife

Streaks are one of the most annoying ways apps fake 'user engagement.' Social media, language apps, fitness trackers, the whole lot. Just make the thing do the thing and leave us alone.

gotta love these "AI voice training" jobs on voiceover sites: "please record 500 hours for a pittance and grant us eternal rights to your likeness in perpetuity, okthxbye." #voiceover

The new Zen mode in jellyfin-tui is sweet, especially when paired with the new accent-color piped into cava: https://github.com/dhonus/jellyfin-tui #jellyfin #linux

Spending 2 hours configuring XKB is the most Linux thing I’ve done all month. Fixed the dead-key paradox: no more double-tapping backticks, no more losing my own name's accent. Full writeup: https://andreklein.net/the-backtick-that-almost-broke-me-fixing-german-xkb-dead-keys-on-linux/ #linux

It's a special kind of pain using a DE keyboard, needing non-deadkey backticks constantly for code docs, while also needing regular deadkey accents so I can ... spell my name. Spent the afternoon hacking together a custom XBD layout and now i can switch modes easily. #linux

Combining web-apps with terminals is a vibe: calculating accent color from mpris -> piping straight into cava and clock-rs #hyprland #linux

Since the game is currently free on EPIC, friendly reminder that there is an excellent hint book on archive with a hilarious preface by the man himself, Harlan Ellison: https://archive.org/details/nomouth-hintbook #pointandclick #adventuregames

I got tired of doomscrolling while trying to post, so I built a cross-poster for the terminal. No feed, no ads, no browser. Just send and close. FOSS/MIT. #linux #foss #opensource #terminal https://andreklein.net/a-social-media-crossposter-for-the-terminal/

Wired up jellyfin-tui to expose its cover-art derived accent-color so I can pipe it straight into cava. Works pretty well! #linux #hyprland #jellyfin https://github.com/dhonus/jellyfin-tui/pull/215

The mouse vs keyboard thing in tiling WM culture is a false dichotomy. And a lazy one at that. I built a minimalist dock for Hyprland to prove it. https://andreklein.net/i-put-a-dock-on-my-hyprland-and-id-do-it-again/ #Hyprland #Linux #Quickshell

"No, I don't suffer from SPA-brain." - *spends an hour building a Rube Goldberg state machine so the browser tab can say what page you're on* #react #webdev #htmx

I always find it funny when people say "this era will be judged harshly in history books". Like, if we've learned anything from recent world events, it's that nobody reads history books.

When you find out only two days later that your post was #3 on HackerNews ... server didn't even break a sweat. Guess the caching strategy paid off.

Valid EPUB. Passes epubcheck. Works everywhere. Kobo says: corrupted. One line of CSS4 is all it takes. Adobe's renderer hasn't left 2013. Post-mortem: https://andreklein.net/your-epub-is-fine-kobo-disagrees-blame-adobe/ #epub #ebooks #selfpublishing #css

POV: rebooting into the Windows partition because of legacy stuff #linux

"Eat your heart out, Grogu!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F164oR1V67I #cinema #horror

99% of tech forum/reddt threads: Q: How can I do X? A: Why do you even need to do X? A: Yeah. X is dumb. Do Y instead! A: Y? Are you for real? Z is the one true way! [400 comments debating Y vs Z]

First time trying wireless adb on Arch for Android debugging and the connection has been rock solid (unlike on Windoze where it's always been hit-or-miss). Turns out when the OS isn't trying to "optimize" your drivers into oblivion, things actually just work. #archlinux #androiddev

Everyone's building agentic loops so AI can type for them. I tune my scheduler with scx_loader so typing itself feels telepathic. Different priorities. #linux #scx

Just 're-pasted' my PC. Turns out the 'professional' computer store I bought it from years ago left the factory sticker ON the CPU under the cooler. I’ve been running a literal thermal insulator for half a decade.