Journal of Timothy Kenno Handojo

Building Coreboot on ASUS P8Z77-M Desktop

I decided to have another build of coreboot. This time on a desktop system.

Why desktop? because it offers more freedom than laptop.

Hardware

For the hardware, I got:

  • ASUS P7Z88-M motherboard, for which the coreboot would be built for.
  • Intel i7-3770K Processor
  • 32GB of DDR3
  • Radeon GPU...

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Been trying out Typst for generating documents. It's a lot of fun!

Not only that the syntax is much cleaner than LaTeX, it's much easier to script.

One thing I couldn't do with LaTeX is loading data from a YAML.

With Typst, it already have a function for loading YAML, as well as some well defined data structures for list and dictionary

All I had to do was to load the YAML and run the data thru for-loops, with each loop iteration thru template to put the right data in the right place.

Unfortunately for now there's a bunch of features missing, with some in progress. I definitely could use custom fonts.

AlmaLinux 10 for my VPS

As my VPS subscription was approaching its end, I decided to switch to another provider. While at it, I thought to myself: why not switch Linux distro as well?

Upgrading Almalinux

First, I updated the current one to its latest

# dnf update
# reboot

Then I tried the version upgrade

# dnf in...

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Further Improvement on the Blog

Performance Optimization

This is basically done by minimizing the amount of data transfered one way or another.

Downsizing favicon

This is the simplest.

I simply used ImageMagick to convert the format by running:

convert favicon.ico favicon.png

Then I replaced the old favicon with

mv f...

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Thinkpad X200: Rewiring Wireless Antennas (and Other Upgrades)

I got an X200 a long time ago before I got deeper into all this corebooted Thinkpad affair. As you may (or not) know, the iconic X200 is one of the few first corebooted Thinkpad.

The one I got came with coreboot already. Seems the previous owner decided it would be a good idea to cut off the WWAN...

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