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Mon 06 March 2023

My FOSS Photo Workflow

Posted by fedops in Software   

Digital photography workflows tend to be dominated by a relatively small number of proprietary, commercial software suites that have been optimized over years or even decades. Adobe Lightroom, Capture One, or Affinity Photo are household names, and they're all available for both MacOS as well as Windows. Which also means that most prosumer and professional photographers use those operating systems as the fine-tuned applications are their bread-and-butter tools they generally can't do without.

A small …

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Tue 30 August 2022

Selfhosted Calendaring

Posted by fedops in Software   

I've avoided delving into the calendaring topic for a long while. It seemed a hassle and also I wasn't sure how to best integrate work and private calendars. I don't have very many private appointments anyway, and the ones I do have should ideally also block out the respective times in my work calendar so people don't book me for a meeting when I'm at the dentist or something. So I just put my private …

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Wed 06 July 2022

Quick Tip: (Android) Apps You Didn't Know You Need

Posted by fedops in Software   

Recently in the Fediverse @joel@fosstodon.org announced a blog post he had written about some niche FOSS mobile apps that he has found useful and I thought that is a great idea if everybody did that. So here's my pick.

You can find all of them on F-Droid by clicking on the section title.

Notally - Minimalist Notes

This is a very nicely done minimalist note taking app that essentially does only two things: make …

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Thu 05 May 2022

dmenu/rofi Scripts

Posted by fedops in Software   

Fans of tiling window managers generally do not have a full-featured desktop environment such as Gnome or KDE installed. One of the more obviously missing UI elements is the search bar for quick access to programs and to search for things.

dmenu is an extremely versatile utility that can best be described as the equivalent to the fuzzy finder fzf, just for graphical user interfaces. In general terms it presents the user with a list …

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