I was lucky enough to participate in 2 led primaries under paramguru Sharath Jois on his Miami tour (organized by Sonima), catching the second weekend (May 6, 7th 2023). Here are my notes from the sessions/observations compared to my usual
In July 2020 I went on a color-scheme vision quest. This led to some research on various color spaces and their utility, some investigation into the styling guidelines outlined by the base16 project, and the color utilities that ship within…
i3 has fantastic focus and window handling for multiple monitors out of the box in my opinion. I didn’t realize that I missed this until I was on campus and used i3 on a multihead setup there, so I set out to make my bspwm setup act the sam…
’one weird trick’ for getting that ELF executable someone just handed you working soon™ Create a shell.nix file that looks like: Launch the nix-shell, patch the linker so you can call the executable and see what’s up: Strategies to find out…
where the ’perfect menu’ means you can start typing right away tl;dr: I wanted to stop reading stdin after the first newline to stdout, and I did a hacky thing to get that, the essence of which is: I really like selecting things from fuzzy
Prince Huei’s cook was cutting up a bullock. Every blow of his hand, every heave of his shoulders, every tread of his foot, every thrust of his knee, every whshh of rent flesh, every chhk of the chopper, was in perfect rhythm — like the dan…
This is a text version of a lighting talk I gave at recurse center Feb 2020. Back when I was first getting into Linux, I had arch installed on my laptop that I was using for schoolwork, and was trying all the latest ｍｎｍｌ window managers, wh…
Context: There is an emacs blog carnival, and this month’s host has chosen the topic “Your Elevator Pitch for Emacs”. Usually I don’t try to convince people to start using emacs. It can be a significant time investment to learn, especially
So, I’ve been using BSPWM as my main WM for about 5 months now, after transitioning from i3, so I thought I would write about my experience. I had transitioned from openbox to i3, and was getting a hang on configuring i3 and what it meant t…
For almost a year now I’ve been using plato on the kobo libra 2, an e-ink reader that includes a backlight and a red light scale. The user experience has been very good (fast, portable, decent battery), here’s some howto’s. When you first g…
Org mode is pretty cool. Directed graphs are pretty cool. Let’s see how they go together. After installing the graphviz package, you will have the dot command. If you use it in with an org mode source block like so: You can eval the block w…