Tag: Tech

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • The Modern Monk

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    Narcissus rising What does it mean to be a modern monk in a house of mirrors?As reality coalesces from the luminiforous aether and the solidity of consensus is established we find ourselves trapped in corporeal space. We are jailed in a bardo of illusion where satisfaction is dangled in front of us like a carrot…