Author: dioptric

  • Qtile Chameleon

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    Qtile Chameleon A pet project qtile-chameleon is a pet project of mine. It started quite a long time ago. It’s a config file for Qtile, a home page for FireFox and a bunch of shell scripts to tie it all together. My goal was to make Qtile my primary productivity tool. Moreover, I wanted a…

  • Qtile: Pythonic Workflow

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    Window Managers This article is a continuation of my recent software series where we’ve covered RSS Readers, Calendars, and Podcast Applications. All of my previous Linux Software centric articles have been concerned with alternatives to proprietary workflows. This article concerns something foreign to people who use proprietary operating systems. Today we’re going to look at…

  • Liferea:Freedom with RSS

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    Readable Site Summaries Liferea is my current RSS feed reader. Ive used the internet for a very long time without an news aggregator. I would guess this is the case for most people. It was only when I decided I wanted to distance myself from online services that curate content that I realized what a…

  • gPodder: A Pretty Good Podcast Program

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    gPodder for Podcasts gPodder is a pretty good podcast program. I use it to organize  my podcast subscriptions and check for new episodes. In a similar vein to my last article  Khal a TUI Calendar: Procrastination in Python where I searched for a suitable calendar. I had a hard time finding the podcast application that…

  • Khal a TUI Calendar: Procrastination in Python

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    The Bazaar There are 3 things a digital calendar should do. First and foremost it should track the date accurately. Secondly it should be able to import and export to a standard calendar files . Third it should save and track events. I spent too much time trying to find a calendar that had all…

  • Sketchbook Catch Up

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    The Sketches Never Stopped My sketches have been piling up fast. It was only a matter of time before I would reach the last page of my sketchbook. Lately my drawings have been either simple cartoons exploring exaggerated aspects of reality. Proportion, color, perspective and the like. I like them but they don’t feel like…

  • i3lock Lock Image

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    Foiled again This is a image intended for use with the i3lock program and the lock.sh script from u/wontonspecial. The script locks the screen and applies a blur to obfuscate the desktop. It uses the screen shot utility scrot to capture the desktop and imagemagick to apply a blur to the screenshot. Then the script…

  • GNU/Linux A Designers Perspective

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    Back In the Day I’ve used GNU/Linux since about Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake when it was released in 2006. Before that I had always used Windows at home and after the iMac fell out of favor for computer education I also used Windows at school. I remember the early days of Windows when Windows was…

  • Bonsai

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    Shokubutsu Bonsai is a practice of bondage. It is the equivalent of foot binding, or ear cropping for a plant. Its with a heavy heart that I admit that I am guilty of these indecencies. In 2012 I tried to keep three baby elm trees from a lower altitude alive in pots and they froze…

  • Under the Blood Red Moon

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    Between Three Pillars This drawing is on 7x10in mixed media paper. It was drawn with a felt tip pen and colored with water color. Under the Blood Red Moon started with one goal in mind. I wanted to draw more pillars with drapery. I started this theme in The New King. It was satisfying to…