Fedora

Today I learned more about fonts and found one great one to replace my current setup and pair with my colour palette. Maple Mono is an excellent monospace font with a rounded design and smart ligatures. After testing it on terminal and my code editor (both using Catppuccin Mocha), it worked great together, the soft, rounded glyphs complement the pastel palette. I’m adding this short note to my TIL section mainly as a personal reference for future use, I’ll probably write a full blog post about fonts, a topic I don’t know much and I found quite interesting.

As an expat living in Germany, online radio has become a good daily companion. I enjoy listening to news from my home country (and connect to my mother tongue), practice German language or just discovering music and stories from a random place around the globe. I found a GNOME app that is a genuine gem: Shortwave, which can be installed via Flathub. Shortwave is an online radio app for GNOME that has a great and clean design, cool features and a built-in search that makes finding radio stations around the world effortless. Just search, tune and listen, super easy. ...

After reading What software do you use daily in 2026? on Lobster, I learned about Chafa. Described as: The premier UX of the 21st century just got a little better: With chafa, you can now view very, very reasonable approximations of pictures and animations in the comfort of your favorite terminal emulator. The power of ANSI X3.64 compels you! As a heavy shell user, I decided to install and had a lot of fun opening my images in the terminal :-) ...

In my previous post, I wrote about using Eza on Fedora 41, which works well and it can be installed via dnf. This week, I upgraded my main computer to Fedora 42 and noticed that the Eza package is no longer available and couldn’t be installed using dnf. I looked into the rust-eza and discovered that the maintainer has orphaned it due to time constrains. To keep using Eza, I downloaded the latest release from the project’s Github page, and installed the binary directly to the /usr/local/bin ...

Eza is a modern replacement for ls, it’s written in Rust, small, fast and just a single binary. How to replace in Fedora with Fish Shell sudo dnf install eza alias --save ls eza Done!

This is a short snippet to run PostgreSQL using Podman with a volume. The snippet has been tested on Fedora 41. Create the Podman volume $ podman volume create psqldevel Run PostgreSQL $ podman run -d -p 5432:5432 -v psqldevel:/var/lib/postgresql/data -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=xx --name psqldevel postgres:latest

Fedora is the Linux distribution that I primarily utilize, as it offers a satisfactory balance between cutting-edge packages and stability. The release schedule is six-monthly, and you can expect the most recent version of the main packages, a level of innovation you can only find in one of the most up-to-date and stable operating systems. Being a data professional, I enjoy trying new software and staying abreast of the newest industry innovation. ...