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I'm doing a project, a very simple one: it's a sous vide cooker. The details don't matter, as in this article we are going to focus on a single component: the KY-040 rotary encoder.

If you are here, you have most likely just bought a KY-040 clone from China, and are looking into how to hook it u...

It's been a few years now since I switched to Wayland. I use Sway, a compositor based on wlroots, and apart from the sporadic broken Wayland application (easy fix: force XWayland) and Java application (easy fix: set _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1), it's mostly been great times.

I have also be...

Docker is a container engine for the Linux operating system. It leverages two Linux kernel functionalities, chroot jails (or, nowadays, the pivot_root system call, but the details don't really matter here) and namespaces, to create containers, or isolated environments where you can run pr...

A few months ago, my father bought himself a water purifier. It's a quite convenient and eco-friendly device which filters tap water, and optionally cools it and carbonates it, eliminating the need of buying bottled water entirely.

The company that sold it to him also sold him a stand-alone fau...