Tag: GNU

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…