Spotify has a good Linux client. But it doesn't support MPD, so it is problematic to create a blocklet in i3 statusbar or interact with Spotify using shortcuts. Here I'd like to show how it could be achieved.

Here I'm showing some not very obvious features of IntelliJ IDEA which can significantly improve Jekyll blogging.

Solving the "BouncyCastle not registered, using the default JCE provider" problem which appeared using the Apache Camel's SSH component.

It's cool coincidence that default number of tags is the same as number of letters in 'AwesomeWM', isn't it? =)

I've been using Awesome for quite some time - more than 4 years already, and from time to time I needed a simple calendar widget - without any integrations, styles and dependencies, as simple as possible. I tried few but didn't like them. And only today I finally decided to try to make such calendar widget for Awesome. It turned out that it's quite simple.

Few useful Kafka commands

Tutorial on how to create a weather widget for Awesome WM v.4.

Just want to share two possible ways of having widget notifications/information.