As I wrote in my previous post, the other main hobby I practised during my recent holiday was tinkering more with my Linux box. This post will be a bit piecemeal, but I wanted to write about a few changes I have made recently. A zellij project showing lazygit in the left pane, and taskwarrior-tui and a shell in the right pane. Niri window manager When I last wrote in detail about my setup, I was using Hyprland as my window manager. I liked it a lot, but had a few minor teething and stability ...| but she's a girl...
My latest knitting and sewing projects, which I finished during a recent, stay at home holiday.| but she's a girl...
Geeking out on tech, craft, films, photography, nature and cats since 2002. If you stick it out for long enough, blogs become cool again.| but she's a girl...
Bianca is getting older, and vet visits are getting more frequent. We had a recent health scare with her, but thankfully she seems be coming through that. This is what happened, with sidenotes about the many and varied difficulties of medicating cats at home.| but she's a girl...
I buy a used HP ProLiant Microserver and install Unraid to set up a NAS and Docker server.| but she's a girl...
Geeking out on tech, craft, films, photography, nature and cats since 2002. If you stick it out for long enough, blogs become cool again.| but she's a girl...
Geeking out on tech, craft, films, photography, nature and cats since 2002. If you stick it out for long enough, blogs become cool again.| but she's a girl...
I spent a bit of time over the Easter break getting my editors configured on NixOS. Yes, editors plural. Yes, it is overkill. But I can, so I have. Editors can be one of the trickier things to configure in NixOS, or at least, they present more decisions to be made about how one will configure them. Most editors have their own package managers which handle installing, configuring and updating plugins and packages for the editor, which means that you need to decide whether you will let the edit...| but she's a girl...
Geeking out on tech, craft, films, photography, nature and cats since 2002. If you stick it out for long enough, blogs become cool again.| but she's a girl...
After a regrettable incident with `pacman -R`, I reformatted my drive on my Linux machine, and am rebuilding with NixOS.| but she's a girl...
Geeking out on tech, craft, films, photography, nature and cats since 2002. If you stick it out for long enough, blogs become cool again.| but she's a girl...
I review the ZSA Voyager split keyboard which I have been using for several months. Settle in with a drink of your choice, and position the relevant digit over whichever key serves as your spacebar, because it is a long one! I love this keyboard and have a lot to say about it.| but she's a girl...
Geeking out on tech, craft, films, photography, nature and cats since 2002. If you stick it out for long enough, blogs become cool again.| but she's a girl...
I've had a ME/CFS relapse after 30 years or so, and the bounce has gone from my bungee.| but she's a girl...
I've been boosting my storage, settling in, and syncing.| but she's a girl...
Last week, on the 6th of November, I decided to spend my lunch break looking at beautiful art rather than grimly eating my lunch at my desk. It is something I have been meaning to do for a while, and on that particular day, it was probably the best thing I could have done. I am incredibly lucky to have an art gallery practically on my doorstep at work: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts (known as ‘The Barber’ for short). It is a small but perfectly formed gallery, with regular, thought-pro...| but she's a girl...
It has been a while since my last post in this series. I have been pretty busy with work, but pottering with tweaking my Linux setup in the meantime. At some point, I will likely publish my dotfiles, but I am going back and forth so much on things at the moment that dotfiles would only be a transient snapshot of the way things are right now. I’m still in Hyprland, but this time I have swapped out my status bar and moved away from ML4W as I have added more of my own configuration. I’ve als...| but she's a girl...
In my first post in this series I was just getting comfortable with Hyprland and setting up my new Linux box the way I wanted it. In this part, I will talk about switching to Aylur’s GTK Shell (ags for short) as my status bar and panel provider, and sorting out how to play music files locally. Aylur’s GTK Shell Statusbar using ags on Hyprland. I was using Waybar for my status bars and so on before, and liked it well enough, but I got interested in Aylur’s GTK Shell (ags) after seeing so...| but she's a girl...
Hyprland with status bar adapted from Archcraft version. I don’t know about you, but the direction that macOS has been going in lately has been making me a bit nervous. I’ve used Macs almost continuously since about 1991 and enjoyed the experience tremendously. I’ve been an enthusiastic advocate of the Mac ecosystem to anyone willing to put up with me wittering on about it. However, for the first time (excepting the time I couldn’t afford the hardware, which I’ll talk about more bel...| but she's a girl...
A quick review of devil mode for Emacs, a modeless modal editing mode.| but she's a girl...
In which I talk about the inevitability of cycling between configuring Emacs from scratch and using a framework, and the benefits it can still build in the longer term.| but she's a girl...
Geeking out on tech, craft, films, photography, nature and cats since 2002. If you stick it out for long enough, blogs become cool again.| but she's a girl...
Geeking out on tech, craft, films, photography, nature and cats since 2002. If you stick it out for long enough, blogs become cool again.| but she's a girl...
Geeking out on tech, craft, films, photography, nature and cats since 2002. If you stick it out for long enough, blogs become cool again.| but she's a girl...
Geeking out on tech, craft, films, photography, nature and cats since 2002. If you stick it out for long enough, blogs become cool again.| but she's a girl...
Geeking out on tech, craft, films, photography, nature and cats since 2002. If you stick it out for long enough, blogs become cool again.| but she's a girl...
Geeking out on tech, craft, films, photography, nature and cats since 2002. If you stick it out for long enough, blogs become cool again.| but she's a girl...
Geeking out on tech, craft, films, photography, nature and cats since 2002. If you stick it out for long enough, blogs become cool again.| but she's a girl...
Geeking out on tech, craft, films, photography, nature and cats since 2002. If you stick it out for long enough, blogs become cool again.| but she's a girl...
Geeking out on tech, craft, films, photography, nature and cats since 2002. If you stick it out for long enough, blogs become cool again.| but she's a girl...
Geeking out on tech, craft, films, photography, nature and cats since 2002. If you stick it out for long enough, blogs become cool again.| but she's a girl...
Geeking out on tech, craft, films, photography, nature and cats since 2002. If you stick it out for long enough, blogs become cool again.| but she's a girl...