https://yivanov.com/Practical tech lessons from real projects. I am working day to day with Ruby on Rails and in the mean time I am double majoring in Computer Science and Business Administration. 2026-06-08T11:30:50+03:00 Yoan Ivanov https://yivanov.com/ Jekyll © 2026 Yoan Ivanov /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2026-06-08T11:30:00+03:00 2026-06-08T11:30:00+03:00 https://yivanov.com/posts/headphones-not-detected-at-boot-on-linux-mint/ Yoan Ivanov

On my ThinkStation P520, headphones plugged in before boot stayed silent until I unplugged and replugged them. The fix was one line in modprobe.d disabling HDA power saving.

2026-06-03T14:07:00+03:00 2026-06-03T14:07:00+03:00 https://yivanov.com/posts/the-ephemeral-hard-drive-or-how-rails-active-storage-doesn-t-work-on-heroku/ Yoan Ivanov

The problem Apperantly heroku has a ephemeral hard drive, meaning it resets after some time & it isn’t the same between the differnet “dynos” https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/active-storage-on-heroku Who could have guessed…. So, in order to have files attached to your models in Ruby on Rails, meaning “in order for Active Storage to work” you need to use some other adapter. The solut...

2026-06-03T13:38:00+03:00 2026-06-03T13:38:00+03:00 https://yivanov.com/posts/deploying-a-static-nextjs-app-on-github-pages-for-free/ Yoan Ivanov

The problem We are refreshing our axlessoft.com website. It was Wordpress before and but it was a bit broken because it was not updated in a while. We decided to do a static Nextjs website: Static because there is nothing dynamic, it is a portfolio website afterall Modern. We can use Tailwind to create a nice design It’s free to host Setup “Hey, [insert LLM name], build a nextjs port...

2026-06-03T11:39:00+03:00 2026-06-03T11:39:00+03:00 https://yivanov.com/posts/using-brave-instead-of-paying-for-youtube-premium/ Yoan Ivanov

I like using Brave to browse Youtube. There are 0 ads and it’s nice. On my phone I have just created a shortcut to youtube.com. This allows me to have no ads and to play music or listen to podcasts with the phone locked.

2026-06-03T11:15:00+03:00 2026-06-08T11:30:36+03:00 https://yivanov.com/posts/flying-in-linux-mint/ Yoan Ivanov

Workspaces Recommended setup I have set up 12 workspaces. Sounds a lot on paper, but it isn’t. Here are they with the specific workspace number: Communication Workspace Workspace Other Main 1 Main 2 Main 3 Other Calendar Workspace Music Other My setup My current setup is: Communication - Discord, Mail, Messenger, Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal, everything communicati...