Jake Balas

@jake_balas
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Software engineer · Organiser · DJ · Hackerspace member · Beginner maker · Gamer 🎧💻🎮

Advocate for the right to repair, privacy, and ownership 🔧🕵️‍♂️🔐

Githubhttps://github.com/jakubbalas
Soundcloudhttps://soundcloud.com/jake_daphunk
Hackerspacehttps://www.base48.cz/index_eng.html
Event Pyvo Brnohttps://pyvo.cz/brno-pyvo/

The memory card indeed does get L shaped if you ignore warnings and leave it in the steam deck when removing back cover

#fail

I've made myself a #movies / tv shows / #games journal.

The main reason was that I quite often forgot what was the last series of a TV show I watched. I also like to reflect at the end of my year on which games I played and on which platform.

You can clone it from here if it is interesting for you:
https://github.com/jakubbalas/flix

Patient survived but still requires more parts - #ifixit sent it today so fingers crossed I will have more luck tomorrow :)

My Steam Deck’s right bumper decided it no longer believes in work.
So today I’m performing budget hardware surgery.
Ifixit guide in one tab, blind optimism in the other.
Wish me luck.

#SteamDeck #ifixit

“Volunteering enriches the enjoyment of the whole event even further. There are many different roles to suit different personalities and abilities.”

Read our latest interview with @@jake_balas, member of the Operations Team and Onsite Volunteering Lead at EuroPython 2025: https://blog.europython.eu/humans-of-ep-jake

#europython #conference #volunteers #python #contributors #europython2025 #opensource

Exciting news! 🎉

Our proposal for a Base48 hackerspace booth at Brno Maker Faire got accepted.

See you there! 🛠️✨

#makerfaire #brno #hackerspace

Dropped Dropbox after a long time and started with
https://syncthing.net/ .

So far it looks like it has all the features I need.

#opensource

Syncthing

Missing EuroPython already? Hit play to relive the vibes ✨ ✨ ✨

For a while I was looking for a new
🎵 music player that is free, open source, is ablet to edit meta tags including artwork and has a simplistic user interface.

At the moment I'm testing Quod Libet
https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet

It is done in 🐍Python🐍 so I should be able to write some plugin that will improve few minor things in the UI for me so for now it looks good!

#music #opensource #gtk