September 6, 2025

The Linux setup | Part 1 - An Investment for Life

I’ve been a Linux user for about 15 years, and I owe a lot of that journey to my first job at Capgemini Deutschland GmbH. It was a classic corporate setup-developers used Windows, but all the servers ran on Linux. That’s where I finally got to learn the essentials: Bash scripting, maintaining on-premise servers for testing environments, and all that fun in-house stuff. I was working there part-time while studying computer science, so it wasn’t long before I started using Linux for personal projects, too. I kept my gaming PC on Windows, though, because back in 2012, gaming on Linux was basically impossible. Read more

June 28, 2020

Updating an AUR package

Archlinux’ documentation is good, but somehow i struggled to find simple instructions how to update a package. The kafka CLI i’m maintaining, kaf, has been available for some time in the AUR. At some point i have been passed the ownership of the AUR package, but i had no idea how to do a release. For more complex cases there’s probably more to do, however in my simple case: Clone repo: Read more