Category: Technology & Philosophy

  • Project Spotlight: Wallpapers

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    High Res Wallpapers I have chosen to upload some of my designs to the wallpaper sharing platform wallhaven. You can see them on my wallhaven profile page. Some of these designs are standard high-definition and some of them are ultra-high-definition. They’re mostly abstract designs that are part of a larger unpublished series. I’ve uploaded wallpapers…

  • Project Spotlight: Iris Color Scheme

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    Iris Iris is a high contrast color scheme for the Alacritty terminal emulator. This is a project that I had been considering for a long while. Not just for Alacritty but, as a general design guide. A simple, complete color palette can be a great aid in creating consistent designs. Alacritty Recently I started using…

  • Update: Qtile-Chameleon

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    A Young lizard This post is to announce an important update to qtile-chameleon. I have decided to move the project from Debian to Arch Linux. When I started designing qtile-chameleon I was making an effort to switch from an Arch Linux based distribution of Linux to a Debian based distribution, Pop!_OS. I noticed I had…

  • NeoVim a Fresh Modal Editor

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    Vim Vim is a classic command line text editor. When you learn vim you feel like you know Kung-Fu. You realize that there is a superior way to edit text. Vim is an editor, but also mnemonic method of loci. It takes common tasks like changing a word and makes it trivial through mnemonic logic.…

  • Aerochrome a vanishing Curiosity

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    Infrared Photography Infrared photography is the process of making photographic impressions on a medium that is sensitive to infrared light. Human visual perception lies in the range of 400 – 700 nanometer wavelength. Infrared light is beyond human perception in the 700 nanometer to 1 millimeter wave length. When we take infrared photographs it gives…

  • Distribution Hopping

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    All good things Well it’s that time again after nearly a year and a half of Pop_OS I’m distribution hopping again. Pop_OS! worked well for my needs. It provided a stable medium in between the rolling release model and the stable release model that many Linux distributions follow. Everything was running smoothly until one day…

  • VOSK How I Blog With Speech Recognition

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    Golem at the Gates Today I would like to share the potential pitfalls I see in the accelerated application of artificial intelligence technology and explore potential solutions. Overall, I seek to discuss how we can preserve humanity and coherence on the web. Specifically I would like to discuss how speech recognition can be leveraged in…

  • Project Spotlight: Wavey Shader

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    I’ve been continuing my exploration with the potential of shaders in Blender. Recently I’ve been revisiting materials from the old projects in new contexts. Here I’ve taken the shader I used in the planet project and applied it to a flat plane. Then I began to manipulate the existing texture with noise patterns and distortions.…

  • Why ZSH?

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    ZSH is the choice of shell for myself and millions of Macintosh users. ZSH or z-shell is a shell for Unix like operating systems. The shell is the oldest and most powerful way of interacting with your operating system. The shell of choice in Macintosh operating systems has been ZSH for quite some time. Prior…

  • Glitch the Art of Malfunction

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    Glitch is one of my favorite visual styles. The way technology malfunctions has always been interesting to me. I get a strange satisfaction when the tracking on VHS tape is off or composite cables on an old video game console fail to connect. The artifacts and distortion caused by these vintage machines has an electronic…