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 :-) ...

I recently came across Bubbles, a really nice IndieWeb aggregator. It’s great to see the IndieWeb ecosystem getting better and better, and I love the idea of having something like Lobsters or Hacker News for the IndieWeb community.

After writing about my self-hosted RSS workflow, I’ve found the perfect desktop companion for Miniflux. It’s Newsflash — a polished, native GNOME newsreader that connects directly to your Miniflux instance via API. It’s been my daily driver ever since. What’s next: evaluation Android apps to connect to Miniflux, I’ll post the research in a future post :-)

I’ve been hunting for a screenshot tool that’s actually good for GNOME, and I’m pretty sure I found my new go-to: Gradia. I’ve been using it for a while now, and it’s fantastic. You can add notes, highlight sections, add arrows, very helpful when you’re working on documentation or teaching a tech class.

In psql, null values are displayed as blank strings by default, which can be confusing to read. However, you can customize this behavior by setting a specific character to represent null values, making your output more readable and easier to interpret: \pset null '-x-' All null values will become -x-, which is much more convenient. anderson=# select * from test1; name | surname ------+--------- A | -x- (1 row) Bonus It’s possible to choose an emoji as a replacement: ...

I have a new ls replacement! I was using eza (see Eza on Fedora 42 ) for a while, but I’ve found something even better: lsd. This tool is a nice because it displays icons for file types, making it so much easier to navigate files directories. The default settings are great, but the date format mm/dd/yyyy is a bit odd. Changing this is the only modification needed to make the tool perfect. ...

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!

I often have to merge data from different tables in PostgreSQL, this is a code snippet I use: MERGE INTO users u USING new_users n ON u.user_uuid = n.user_uuid WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN INSERT VALUES (n.user_uuid, n.first_name, n.last_name) WHEN MATCHED THEN UPDATE SET first_name = n.first_name, last_name = n.last_name RETURNING u.*;