Hook’s Humble Homepage

Where Law and Free Software get Together for a Nice Cuppa Tea.

About me

My name is Matija Šuklje but other geeks often call me Hook. I am a lawyer by profession and hacker by heart.

With two decades of experience in the FOSS world – ever at the nexus between the engineers, lawyers, businessmen, and policy makers – I truly enjoy making complex legal, technical, and similar thoughts easier for others to understand. Hopefully this humble blog helps a bit towards that goal.

I also have a soft spot for the good things in life, such as tea and sailing, which sometimes reflects in my posts.

Boring disclaimer: As the title and domain name clearly imply, Hook’s Humble Homepage is my personal website and blog and should be taken as such. If you are interested in any official statements and positions of groups and projects I am, or was, affiliated with (e.g. FSFE, ELSA, KDE, Gentoo, LUGOS, Cyberpipe/Kiberpipa), companies I work (Liferay) or have worked for, my (former) clients or just people I know, turn to their (official) websites and the means of communication they use.

My Projects

  • DE razor blades test List of my favourite DE razor blades, tested with a (quasi-)scientific method.
  • Activity-aware Firefox Integration of Firefox into KDE Plasma in a way that it plays nice with its Activities.

Recent Posts all posts

Persistent copyright & licensing information in client-side JavaScript, CSS and similar – a proposal & call for help REUSE.software for JS, CSS &sim
posted in Ius

I propose using SPDX Snippet Tags in a slightly inventive way to tag front-end code, so the information stays in-line even after minification. I present some limited PoC and ask for testers, more PoC and feedback.

Summarise all the FOSDEM videos! For when you simply cannot be in dozens of places at the same time.
posted in Tehne

How I used Kagi’s AI to summarise FOSDEM videos of talks I did not manage to attend to. (Bonus: mini-review of Kagi)

Tactical intimate dual Some grammatical hijinx
posted in Anima

Grammatical dual in Slovene language is a very powerful, yet subtle, tool to manage scope and intimacy of a discussion.

Activity-aware Firefox 0.4.2 & packages for Debian and Arch Took me way longer than it should …
posted in Tehne

Made things easier to package, contributions and packages welcome.

New e-mail and XMPP addresses Some pain, some joy
posted in Tehne

I had to change my main e-mail address due to stupid technical reasons. On an unrelated note, I also have a new XMPP JID.

Backups and Btrfs RAID1 Self-inflicted face-palms and fixes
posted in Tehne

Installed the second SSD, set up backups with Borgmatic and set up the Btrfs RAID1. Challenges were met.