Category: Technology & Philosophy

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…