2026 August Summaries

Sunday, 9th August 2026

Mostly spend time on development work in 3 projects.
Cancelled 3 more domains. If you missed, here is the backstory: Why I am getting rid of (some) domains.
Restructured daily notes here, into collective updates by month, in reverse chronology. Latest date on top.
Tested 3 Steam games; they are working with good FPS, slightly better FPS than Windows. This is backed by the PROTON framework for Steam.
Added a full markdown compatible comments system here (bottom of each page), you can comment using just a username, or email. I will add other login providers later on. Email notifications on comments are working.
I have already set up an administrative layer in the comments and the system is self-hosted using Remark42.

Tightened up the software that is needed for development, screenshots, prerequisites, runtimes, and agentic environment.
Wasn’t easy to use LibreOffice, but it was straightforward to catch up.
All browser profiles, password managers, and shell behaviors are synced. All shell access to homelab and external servers is working as expected.
Great discoveries include Kate (great text editor), Nvim, Gwenview, Krusadar (Total Commander alternative), Spectacle (screenshots - very well done), Konsole (the native console), Betterbird (instead of emClient), KDE wallet system, and many more.
I also noticed, I am not really a fan of Flatpak, I prefer to find the native RPM packages, then AppImage, and then only Flatpak.
The GRUB2 already detected and has an entry for Windows 11. Just a little tweak was needed in UEFI boot order as Windows bootloader as set at first. Now setting the Fedora GRUB2 allows me to use boot switching. Also had some trouble with graphical GRUB2 UI, which was sorted out in Making GRUB2 theme work with Fedora KDE Plasma 44.
Fedora can natively access the NTFS drives, so it was easy to port over many things. One additional thing I appreciated is that to access those NTFS drives, it is required to enter the admin password.
Git, GH, and all shell now have access to GitHub via shell authentications. pCloud synced all my documents.
Tested development work and it was fast and flawless, no need to tackle with WSL2.

Finally freed up an SSD to have a dedicated dual boot. Installed Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 44.
Hit some snag along the way, explained in Fedora KDE Plasma - NVIDIA drivers and Secure Boot.
Generally the reason for having Fedora is to have a dedicated OS for development work. So I am splitting into 3 different systems 1) For automation and automated scripts - Linux Mint Cinnamon 2) For development work, VSCode, Node.js, Inference, etc. - Fedora 3) For media work, gaming - Windows 11

Finally published my super complicated 🤣 Cheap Prolink UPS automation article.
This issue in Linux Mint, broke my automations. The curious case of the Linux Mint keyring password annoyance.

I was pretty lazy to inspect each domain and their prices on multiple providers - from this one Why I am getting rid of (some) domains. It is time consuming and not a repeatable task. So I studied Cloudflare and the Porkbun API and came up with this - Domain Portfolio - Query Cloudflare or Porkbun API - Open sourced it in GitHub.
Various fixes because I found some issues with Quartz 5 - Cloudflare Pages and missing fonts - Fixed. You can read about it.

Two big milestones - done.

Rabin.blog is now stable running using Hugo and the PaperMod theme. Keeping it simple readable and manageable for the long term with no database dependency. Here is the story - Why did I move rabin.blog to Hugo?
The 20 years old blog, my primary domain www.ruhanirabin.com is now fully powered by Astro in the frontend and WordPress as the backend with many complex post types and performance improvements.
This website is now added to Google Search Console using sitemap.xml
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