Špoljarević's Blog

How I use Neovim and why I prefer it over any IDE

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:12:53 +0000

Neovim, a tool created in 2015, is the evolution of vim which itself is an evolution from vi. Why do people use a TUI and is it actually any good?

Alright alright, maybe we need a bit more information to understand my love for neovim, so I’m gonna give you that.

Not only will you understand how I came to TUI programs in general, you’ll also learn about my current setup and my workflow.

My official DWZ - The German Elo

Sun, 17 May 2026 16:00:12 +0000

It finally happened! I got my DWZ. In this post you’ll see what my rating is and a quick recap about the 8 games I’ve played to archive it.

Greetings everyone!

You heard it right, I now have a DWZ.
What’s that you’re asking? Well the strength of a player in chess is measured by something called Elo.
It estimates just how strong a player really is.

You can get that by playing online, but those ratings oftentimes don’t reflect your real strength.
What do I mean by that? My rapid elo on chess.com is around 800 while on lichess I’m around 1200 in the same format.

Project for April: Zammad Quadlets

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:22:12 +0000

As you may have noticed when looking at my Repos, there’s a new one. This is for my April project which I’m already working on. Converting the Compose of the Ticket System Zammad into fully working Quadlets files. At the time of writing this (14.03.2026), I already got the containers running and am only facing a problem with the Nginx of Zammad loading the UI.

Current project

Codeberg Repository of the Arch Linux post-install Ansible Playbook Project

Helping a musician with IT

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 11:00:32 +0000

How to stand out on the internet as a small musician. Build an identity that doesn’t just stop with Spotify

Greetings everyone!

Short introduction

So you’re back at my blog? I see. Well… too bad! Now you’re gonna hear me yapping about one of my favorite music artists. Her artist name is Ronan Fae, but due to simplicity I will just call her Ronja here, since that’s how I got to know here.

AI wrote my documentation... was this a mistake?

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:00:01 +0000

Why I let AI write documentation for my Ansible, Dotfiles and Compose Repository, how I did it and why I’m still gonna rewrite everything by hand.

Greetings everyone!

You heard it right, AI wrote a part of my documentation.
Specifically for my Dotfiles, Compose and Ansible Repo.
But why did I not only allow but also execute this?

Let’s find out in this Blog.

The goal of Februrary.

As you may know, my goal for Februrary was to write documentation for, at this time existing, Repositories.

The most important chess tournament I've played in

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:00:06 +0000

Today I had another chess tournament. I knew it was really important for my club so I tried my best. Did I win or loose and what happens now?

Introduction

Yes, you heard it right. This was the most important tournament I’ve played so far.

Migrating from Elfsight to Ghost

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:00:20 +0000

My way from misusing Codeberg for my blog to a very short-lived adventure with Elfsight to the new home of my blog, Ghost

Greetings everyone,

this time there’s no code block with info about me. I think that’s no more necessary at this point.

At the time of writing this blog post (2026-02-28, 06:18 pm UTC +1), I’m not sure how long it will go. It’s probably gonna be a quite short post but I wanted to talk about the reasons on why I publish my posts on Codeberg and why I’m not using Elfsight anymore but Ghost.

Progress on my Arch post-install Playbook

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:09:28 +0000

What’s the progress so far? What’s missing, and when can you expect it?

Author: Luca Matteo Spoljarevic
Contact: git@spoljarevic.info
My new website: https://spoljarevic.sh
Socials: https://socials.spoljarevic.sh
Projects: https://projects.spoljarevic.sh
Date created: 2026-02-24
Last changed: 2026-02-24

Greetings everyone!

My last post, where I talked about pretty much everything in life, is now 13 days old.

This time I want to talk about one topic, and one topic only… Ansible.

More specificly my Archinstall playbook. Now don’t get wrong ideas, this playbook is not there to replace the archinstall Script from Arch Linux. This is more of a post-install playbook that is very badly named…

Chess journey

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:07:26 +0000

What’s new in Chess? Project for February and everything about IT and Linux

Author: Luca Matteo Spoljarevic
Contact: git@spoljarevic.info
Socials: https://linksta.cc/@spoljarevic
Projects: https://linksta.cc/@spoljarevic-projects
Date created: 2026-02-10
Last changed: 2026-02-11

Greetings everyone

Introduction

A lot of things have changed and I’m writing this at 11 pm with a monster energy on my right (not sponsored lol).

Chess

First of all, the most important topic, chess. I had my third chess tournament last Sunday. This time I played in the A Class (normally I play in B class) so my opponent was significantly stronger then I am. I think he was around 1350 ish? Anyway, the game started and I was unhappy from the start. My opponent neutrilized the movement of my knight and bishop quite quickly and I was defending myself the whole game. But after managing to trade queens I offered a draw, which he accepted. That was luck since the engine showed that it was around +4.6 for my opponent when I put the game into the computer afterwards. Now I only need to play 4 more games to get a DWZ, the official german Elo. Also I bought a chess clock, the DGT 3000 Limited edition to be exact, so it’s easier for me to prep for over the board tournaments.

My new Blog

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:05:55 +0000

This is the first time I’ve ever done a Blog, so I’ll keep it real short for now.

Author: Luca Matteo Spoljarevic
Contact: git@spoljarevic.info
Socials: https://linksta.cc/@spoljarevic
Projects: https://linksta.cc/@spoljarevic-projects
Date created: 2026-01-06
Last changed: 2026-01-06

Greetings everyone!

Welcome to my new Blog here on the git Platform of your liking. This is the very first time I’ve ever done something like this, so don’t expect too much. Also a late happy new year to everyone out there!

About

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Špoljarević’s Blog is an independent publication launched in 2026 by Luca Matteo Špoljarević.

Expect posts about Linux, self-hosting, automation, neovim, chess and a bit of everything else.

Projects: https://codeberg.org/spoljarevic
Socials: https://socials.spoljarevic.sh/
Mastodon: https://techhub.social/@spoljarevic
Blog source & previews: https://codeberg.org/Spoljarevic/Blog

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