https://agk.io/The personal website of Alex Knoll featuring random musings on software and the world 2025-11-12T10:02:20-05:00 Alex Knoll https://agk.io/ Jekyll © 2025 Alex Knoll /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2025-10-07T13:09:00-04:00 2025-11-12T10:01:35-05:00 https://agk.io/posts/arbitrary-values-variants-in-tailwindcss/ Alex Knoll

TailwindCSS has several lesser-known advanced features that can be useful for handling edge cases that many believe would require you to add custom CSS to a stylesheet. In fact, it’s possible to handle these without having to ever write a single line of CSS in your stylesheet. 1. Arbitrary values Tailwind supports arbitrary values in utility classes which allows you to create custom one-off c...

2025-09-29T06:05:00-04:00 2025-11-12T10:01:35-05:00 https://agk.io/posts/recovering-bricked-remarkable/ Alex Knoll

I’ve had a reMarkable 2 e-ink tablet for a number of years but I found it collecting dust more recently. In looking for ways that I could re-purpose it, I found that the reMarkable tablets actually run on a modified linux kernel called Zero Sugar and a heavily customized linux distribution that you can access via SSH over USB. That has spawned an entire community of hackers that have created al...

2025-09-20T09:34:00-04:00 2025-11-12T10:01:35-05:00 https://agk.io/posts/why-i-use-tailwindcss-despite-the-controversy/ Alex Knoll

As a heavy user of TailwindCSS since its first major release over 5 years ago, I’ve come to realize that there are a lot of misconceptions about it that have led to some controversy. Why would frontend developers want to go back to a practice that looks an awful lot like glorified inline CSS styling. In fact, TailwindCSS is something else entirely and it’s hard for me to think of another single...

2025-09-15T13:29:00-04:00 2025-11-12T10:01:35-05:00 https://agk.io/posts/omarchy-monitor-config/ Alex Knoll

After installing Omarchy as my OS which comes with the tiling window manager Hyprland, I realized that having a multi-monitor setup compounds the learning curve when working with a completely new UI with new keybindings. To solve this, I wanted to configure my setup to automatically disable my internal Framework 13 laptop display whenever an external display was connected (and re-enable it when...

2025-09-13T10:57:00-04:00 2025-11-12T10:01:35-05:00 https://agk.io/posts/omarchy-external-usb/ Alex Knoll

Over the past week or so, I’ve been test driving Omarchy as my primary OS. Omarchy is an opinionated Arch Linux distribution that ships with the modern tiling window manager Hyprland, something I had been interested in trying for some time. I wanted to install Omarchy to an external USB drive so that I could fall back to my existing Arch Linux installation on my internal drive if I ran into any...