Milan Zamazal's Weblog

  • Software problem: LSP not working with clangd on NixOS

    It took me quite a while to find out how to make Language Server Protocol working with C/C++ on NixOS. clangd couldn’t find any standard header files and complained that “pp file not found”. The trick to make it working is adding clang-tools to nativeBuildInputs in shell.nix. To make clang compiling the programs on the […]

  • The most appreciated piece of code I’ve ever written

    Some people like CamelCase. Some don’t but they still have to deal with it. So I once wrote and posted a utility that displays UnreadableIdentifiers properly, as Unreadable_Identifiers. The reactions were surprising. rms said the utility “is bizarrely creative”. Several people sent me thankful e-mails. And it is pleasing to see that even more than […]

  • Rale

    Rale. One of the most fascinating bands I’ve ever heard. It has never become widely known and it disbanded about twenty years ago. Two of its three albums got sold out and have been no more available. It’s sad when good music disappears. The only album by Rale still available was Twilight / Soumrak, the […]

  • What’s the problem with Reddit?

    I don’t understand what’s the problem with Reddit. What do people expect from using a proprietary centralized platform?

  • File synchronization

    I was looking for a way to synchronize files on my devices. My devices are of different kinds (GNU/Linux, OpenWRT, Android) and I have several folders to be shared with different sets of devices. I could find three basic tools that could be useful for the purpose. Available options One of the obvious choices is […]

  • Preventing communication

    There are some technical topics I’m interested in. There are other people who are interested in them too. Now, how to connect to each other to discuss the topics? This problem has been successfully solved long time ago with Usenet and NNTP. An established decentralized system providing discussion forums. Everybody could be happy with it […]

  • Amarok

    I bought Mike Oldfield’s album Amarok many years ago. At the time when there were no streaming services or music copies on the big video site yet, just some textual reviews on the net. One bought an expensive CD and, unless listening to its samples in the shop, enjoying the surprise afterward at home. (BTW […]

  • Fixing, fixing

    This blog has been silent for a year and even unreachable for some time. One of the primary reasons is that I spend a large portion of my life fixing things. Not because of my choice but because so many things I use don’t work as expected or at all. I have little remaining resources […]

  • Moving from KDE to Emacs

    When I started using EXWM, I thought that using it together with KDE would be the best combination. But then my Plasma configuration self-destructed by chance, I had to recover it from backup and I started thinking what and how much I actually need from KDE exactly. The basic principle is simple: Things are easier […]

  • Emacs interface to PipeWire

    I couldn’t find any Emacs interface to PipeWire. So I wrote one.