I recently decided to try out using the Mutt terminal email client. It’s an easy way to read and reply to email, especially for email mailing lists. I use Fastmail as my email service, and searching for exisitng .muttrc config files made getting up and runnning relatively straitforward, but it took some trial and error to get Mutt to use Drafts and Sent Items correctly. The below should be enough to get you started:...

After a several year hiatus, I started homebrewing again this past summer. I had some of my old equipment, but to keep things simple and small, I picked up a couple of Mr. Beer starter kits to help me get re-started. You can make great beer with Mr. Beer, and what I like most is the small 2 gallon fermenters. You’re not limited to just the Mr. Beer refills and recipes....

I’ve been able to get my Samsung ML-2525W printer to work under Debian Bookworm using the official Unified Linux Driver and also using SpliX, which is available in the Debian repositories. Both options work great and will give you a working printer and allow you to access more printer model specific settings. Samsung ULD HP acquired Samsung’s printer business in 2017, so you’ll need to download the ULD package from HP’s support site....

I recently made the switch to cmus for playing my music collection and have been very happy with it. It is quite fast and uses hardly any resources, but one of the first things I needed to accomplish was being able to scrobble my music to Libre.fm. I was a long time user of Last.fm, but I feel it has become too much of a monster (and a dying one at that), and this prompted me to switch to Libre....

So, I finally decided to get my blog back up and running. I’ve actually done this a few times, but I seemed to always get distracted with something else. Originally, I was running things from my home server using WordPress, but I decided to move things to a hosted server to make things easier and a little more secure. I’m also using Hugo for the site generation and it’s quite nice....