Hi, I'm Krishna. I've been working in the tech industry since 2000. This site is my collection of notes and thoughts on topics that fascinate me: technology, business, coding, Linux, AI, Emacs, home automation, and more.
I use a selfhosted FreshRSS instance to manage my rss feeds. I wanted a quick way to add a web page’s rss feed into FreshRSS without copy pasting the URLs. So i created a bookmarklet with the following code to open the freshRSS add-feed page with the URL filled in.
While looking around at my old devices, noticed my trusty old Thinkpad 440s (bought in 2014) which had been gathering dust for a while. Hoping to get some more use out of it, I installed Pop_OS!, but noticed that wifi would get cut-off on a regular basis, and it consistently needed a reboot to get wifi working again. Here is a fun story on how I got it working.
I use emacs org-mode to capture links from the browser for later reading, or for archiving. For this purpose, I use a simple bookmarklet to capture the link, title and any selected text, and then use an org-capture template to store the information. However, when i click on the bookmarklet, most browsers throw a pop-up asking for permission to open org-protocol:// links. This security check, while well-intentioned, adds friction every time I try to capture a link. Here’s how we can disable this confirmation prompt on Chromium based browsers.