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My name is Bart Peperkamp and i'm interested in software development, Linux and electronics (and a lot more). I've built this site in my own little framework and is meant as a place to occasionally post some articles and possible solutions.

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Improve font rendering in Linux

Font rendering on a Mac is a lot better looking than either windows or most Linux distributions. There is an easy way to improve it a lot. Edit the fi ...

Radio communication (for drones/robots) with Raspberry Pi and Python

A few years ago, i started developing an interest in drones and robotics. I've always been interested in electronics and it's possibilities in combina ...

Implement the Chartist library in Laravel

When i was working on a certain project, i needed charts for various visualisations. The charts were quite simple, but at the time i could only find s ...

Installing ohmyzsh on Debian based distros

Ohmyzsh is an addon for your zsh based terminal. It makes a lot of things a great deal easier such as command auto completion, being able to see which ...

Switching your terminal to ZSH

In order to use ohmyzsh it is neccesary to switch to the zsh shell. On a Mac it is the default shell as far as i recollect, but switching is quite eas ...

Laravel BAG

This small release based on Laravel, downloads Dutch address data from publicly available BAG data. It downloads, extracts and parses the data to a da ...

Announcing a Samba server to Windows

For some reason, a Samba file server and it's services are not always properly announced to the network neighborhood in Windows. Avahi should be enoug ...

Convert your Arduino to a USB serial interface

For a small hacking project i needed to connect to a device via it's serial interface. Not having a USB to serial interface i started looking around t ...