Posts on Vi Pau

Pebble Index 01 is not open source

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I am a big fan of the rePebble/Pebble Index 01, a wearable ring with a microphone and a button that sends recordings to your phone. I believe the idea is quite genius, but unfortunately, the device is being sold on a false promise right now: open source.

The promise Link to heading

On the Index 01 official website, we can see multiple claims of the software being open:

Proper 1chip SNES PAL to NTSC permanent conversion

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Why this page? Link to heading

When doing this mod myself, I realized that the complete information needed was scattered throughout the internet, and required me a lot of digging and testing to implement. I want to save others work by documenting exactly what I did. Also, most people I found doing this mod left their SNES only capable of using RGB but not RCA video while mine keeps both.

zsimple - minimal modern zsh environment

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

View on GitHub (for install instructions)

Try it in Docker (with veeship included): docker run --rm -it ghcr.io/vipau/zsimple:latest
Or with a minimal configuration: docker run --rm -it ghcr.io/vipau/zsimple:void-latest

Why zsimple Link to heading

If you are looking for a .zshrc that has no plugin manager, only 3 highly trusted plugins, and extremely minimal but modern config and that works well on Linux and MacOS, you… I hope you found it here, and if something doesn’t work on your setup, shoot me an email or open an issue on GitHub :)

veeship - custom starship theme

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

View on GitHub
Download this config file: starship.toml
Try it in Docker (with zsimple.): docker run --rm -it ghcr.io/vipau/zsimple:latest

Here is my custom shell prompt, designed over the course of a weekend.
It uses Starship which is very fast as well as cross-shell, allowing me to have the same prompt in bash, zsh, nushell and others. I explicitly disable most of the Starship plugins in my config to make it even faster and cleaner.