This blog is mainly articles about Linux and programming (and scripting in C). It is updated about once a month.

You can access this blog on the web and with gemini.

• https://noulin.net/blog
• gemini://gmi.noulin.net/feed.gmi

About me

I am a software engineer working for an international IT group in Sweden, I have been working with ASIC design for 14 years and since 2014 I have been working with software development.

I have got my first computer in 1983 and since then used a wide range of hardware and operating systems starting in 1983. Nowadays, I mainly use Linux at home and at work.

I had a minitel in 1985 and the services I was using the most were:

• Phone book
• RTEL

I have been using the internet since 1995 when I connected with a 14.4 bauds modem. In 1999 I had my first permamenent internet connection at 10MB. I started using mobile internet in 2001, my mobile phone was connected to the laptop with infrared.

Hardware:

• in 1983, I had a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48, my friend had an Atari 2600
• in 1986, I had an Amstrad CPC 6128, my friend had an Atari ST 1040
• in 1990, I had a PC (intel 80286, 1MB, 40MB HD, VGA 256 colors) similar to Commodore PC 30
• in 1998, I used Solaris and Sun workstations
• in 2008, I bought a Macbook Air and installed Debian Linux on it

Operating Systems:

• DOS, Microsoft Windows 3.1
• Windows 95, 98, these systems were so unstable that I decided to use Linux full time (starting with Red Hat 5 in 1998)
• Windows NT, 2000, XP
• Red Hat Linux
• Debian Linux
• MacOS for developing iOS apps
• FreeBSD, DragonflyBSD, OpenBSD
• CentOS

How this blog is generated

I use the static blog generator called forb. Forb is written in C and build with sheepy, you can find the source code for forb at: forb git

Built with

The site is built with:

• Kore web server
• stagit static git page generator
• forb static blog generator
• Let's encrypt a nonprofit Certificate Authority
• Digital Ocean the developer cloud
• Sheepy build system and package manager for C

About markdown

The markdown standard in forb is CommonMark with tables.

• Table example:

| Line 1, Column A - Title line in Bold | Column B - Title line in Bold |
| Line 2, A | 2B |

• Link to external page:

(title)[url]

• Image in post:

!(title)[%baseurl/images/img.png]

When baseurl="/blog", write:
!(title)[/blog/images/img.png]

• Link to another post in blog:

[another post](/blog{% post_url POST_FILENAME_WITHOUT_MARKDOWN_EXTENSION %})

Keep "/blog", forb replaces it with the value in _config.yml,
after post_url write the post filename to be linked without ".markdown":
[another post](/blog{% post_url 2020-06-09-getting-started %})