Linux

Emacs Youtube

Thu, Dec 8, 2022 - 400 Words

One of my goals for 2023 is to use YouTube as little as possible. However, I still want to be able to watch videos occasionally, I just don’t want the ’time-suck’ element of youtube, where you end up with an endless stream of (admittedly interesting) content thanks to the suggestions provided by the algorithm.
Read more →
The Linus Tech Tips Conspiracy

Wed, Dec 1, 2021 - 1000 Words

The recent Linus Tech Tips series on ‘gaming’ in Linux seems to have sparked a lot of controversy and discussion1. It was genuinely heartbreaking to watch PopOS fail so miserably. I primarily felt bad for the PopOS team themselves, who probably work tirelessly contributing to an open source ecosystem, only to be ‘shown up’ in front of millions of viewers, for a mistake that, come on, wasn’t really their fault.
Read more →
Gitlog Client

Wed, Oct 27, 2021 - 200 Words

This is a short followup to my previous post. Gitlog on Port 9418 The more I think about Solderpunk’s idea, the more I love it. I also really loved this recent post by mntn, which seems to provide a good solution to the question of linking:
Read more →
Gitlog on port 9418

Tue, Oct 26, 2021 - 2200 Words

This post is written in response to the fascinating post by Solderpunk: Solderpunk - Low budget p2p content distribution with git It’s a long post, but riveting. I just wanted it to keep going and going.
Read more →
OpenBSD Experiences

Wed, Oct 20, 2021 - 900 Words

A short post to talk about my experience with OpenBSD. It’s not a guide or anything, just some rough thoughts. Somehow, working with OpenBSD gives me the same comfortable, distraction-free feeling I get browsing Gemini.
Read more →
Shell Script - Crosspost

Sun, May 2, 2021 - 600 Words

In previous posts, I mentioned how I’ve started trying to learn a bit more about shell scripting in my free time. First attempt Second attempt This was due to the simplicity of Gemini, and the ease of working with Gemini files in the command line.
Read more →
Second Shell Script - Autolog

Thu, Apr 1, 2021 - 500 Words

I joined Cosmic Voyage a while back. I really love the system there for updating you ship’s posts. You type ’log’ at the command line and you are presented with a series of options for logging your entry.
Read more →
Blop

Sat, Mar 6, 2021 - 300 Words

‘Blop’ is a small *sh script by Drew/uoou/friendo. Blop at Gitlab It is a sort-of ‘static site generator’. I came across it when looking into things like Hugo and Jekyll (neither of which I ended up trying, so my only experience with ‘static site generators’ is blob), through a video by HexDSL on ‘workflow’.
Read more →
First Shell Script

Mon, Feb 22, 2021 - 300 Words

After only a month of exploring Gemini, it’s already leading me, happily, outside my comfort zone. This evening I finally sat down to learn a (tiny) bit of sed, in order to create a script that would update a ‘quote of the day’ section on my homepage.
Read more →

Spool Five