Author: dioptric

  • The Nexus II Home Super Computer

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    What Kind of person owns a Nexus? Are you ready for the home supercomputing revolution? If you are a AI programmer, video editor, meteorologist, or a mathematician you’re probably already involved. A supercomputer can make the most mundane life supremely sophisticated. Introducing the Nexus II. An intelligent person owns a Nexus This is an amazing…

  • Circuit Series

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    Cities of silicon I’ve continued to venture into the exciting frontier of 3D computer graphics. Furthermore, I’ve been experimenting with modeling retro futuristic technology for a project. Computers are interesting to me for their function However beneath the chassis there is a living world of circuit boards. Moreover, they are like miniature cities driven to…

  • Qtile Chameleon Q&A

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    What is Qtile Chameleon? Qtile Chameleon is a curated configuration for the Qtile tiling window manager.  Qtile Chameleon was originally a personal project. I began working on it in 2019 when migrating back to GNU/Linux. I use it for general desktop computing and graphic design. As the workflow matured I realized other people might want…

  • Wallpapers

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    Wallpapers A wallpapers package is now available on my github. This package is a part of the qtile-chameleon project. To learn more about qtile chameleon check my old blog posts. My primary focus with these wallpapers was on color. The goal is to provide a good variety of colors for pywal to use in generating…

  • 3D: The Third Dimension

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    3D Design 3D computer graphics is one of the most rewarding design spaces. You can use three dimensional graphics in many ways. For instance, you can create photo realistic scenes or convey abstract ideas in an accurate way. Moreover, computer generated images straddle the boundaries of fine art. For example, sculpture and painting could be…

  • Qtile Chameleon Update

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    The Catalyst Early this month I updated my computer and rebooted, and all of my clever tweaks and automation turned against me. To be brief it was my fault. There were some issues with my Qtile config and issues with my filesystem.  So I took the opportunity to start fresh with a new operating system…

  • The PinePhone : First Impressions

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    What is the PinePhone The PinePhone is a device in beta for mobile Linux developers. The PinePhone is one of the first attempts at creating a more robust market for Mobile Linux. It costs 150-200 USD, and it’s available from Pine64. Pine64 is a community driven company focused mainly on single board computers and gadgets.…

  • Emacs & Spacemacs

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    What is Emacs? GNU Emacs is difficult to explain briefly. Mostly its a text editor. However, calling it a text editor isn’t totally accurate. Emacs was born out of John McCarthy’s Lisp programming language. As well as the progression of on screen text editing technology at MIT’s AI research laboratory. It uses its own implementation…

  • Qutebrowser

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    Keyboard Centric Qutebrowser is the ideal web browser for the keyboard enthusiast. It uses a hotkey scheme  and command mode inspired by the popular modal text editor, Vim. It takes some time to learn but it quickly becomes second nature.  For the new user I highly suggest learning the basics of Vim via the Vim…

  • T-UI Launcher

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    T-UI T-UI  Linux CLI Launcher is a text based launcher for android.  The launcher is free, portable and extensible.  It is distributed under the GPL with some reservations by its creator Francesco Andreuzzi. You can get T-UI on F-Droid. Shell phone T-UI is the ideal mobile environment for the shell dwelling Linux enthusiast.  It comes with…