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I have been meaning to make this post for some time now.

If you like me, enjoy photos of the Earth, you may also appreciate the ability to set a near real-time photo of it as your desktop wallpaper.

Are you tired of using tools like less and reading text like this?

If you use a Linux distribution that uses an init system other than systemd with the suspend and/or hibernate feature, chances are that you use pm-utils for it.

It wasn’t obvious how this feature with youtube-dl worked, so I thought I would document it here.

It’s been almost one and a half year since my last post with this keyboard.

If you’re using the web browser GNU IceCat you might have noticed that you can’t just click on any dictionary to install it.

There is endless ways of both jumping and navigating in Vim.

Folding in Vim means that you visually (and locally) fold parts of the document.

zsh-command-time is a neat little plugin for zsh that displays the time it took to run a command.

If you want to run a script (or any executable file) in your shell you have to specify the absolute path to it.

The script Share Link Creator is a handy shell script written in Bash that lets you upload files to you NextCloud-server using the shell.

A friendly stranger, named Elodin on the IRC-channel #i3 on the freenode network wrote a Python script for me.

After more than 5 years with my three 24” 1080p monitors I have decided to go back to just one single monitor.

As much as I like my panels with Conky and all the neat information it shows [Example], I prefer keeping the panels hidden to not distract me.

One of the IRC channels I’m on is a bridge to a public Minecraft server.

It has been a long time since I last put up my desktop for display.

I’m a heavy user of SSH and one thing that used to bother me was the fact that when I suspended my computer I would (logically) loose the connection to all things connected via SSH.

I’m aware of the fact that most people prefer Tmux today.

Here’s a quick little tip on how to add drop shadows to via the command-line tool ImageMagick.

With the beginning of WeeChat 2.4 (released 2019-02-17) a space is no longer automatically added when you complete a nick at the beginning of command line.

I used to have half of my Let’s Split keyboard as my numpad, but I didn’t feel right wasting a semi-expensive custom keyboard on number inputs only.

If you’re a fan of Bejeweled and similar puzzle games you will most likely enjoy this game a lot.

I couldn’t find an actively maintained TUI or interactive CLI-client.

Zathura is a lightweight Vi-like document reader with a minimal user interface.

Here’s my collection with handy ways of manipulating text in Bash.

I use Firefox as my secondary browser and something that has been bothering me for some time now, is the fact that the Alt-key toggles the menu bar.

If you copy, move or remove files in the shell using cp, mv and rm you don’t get a confirmation for your action.

One of the most basic and probably one of the most important thing you can do to keep your system less insecure, is to simply keep it updated.

I use WeeChat for both IRC and XMPP (via Bitlbee) and it’s not uncommon for me to end up with tons of buffers with private conversations.

I have probably tried more alternatives for to-do lists than anything.

Manually managing your plugins in Vim can be a tedious task, especially keeping them updated.

Calc is an interactive calculator which provides for easy large numeric calculations, but which also can be easily programmed for difficult or long calculations.

It took me a few tries before figuring this one out.

I don’t really do reviews, this is just my 5 cents about it after owning it for more than a month.

I post a lot of updates to Mastodon using the CLI-client toot.

sendxmpp is a XMPP client for the command-line.

I was annoyed with the static title “mpv” when I watch YouTube videos via mpv, so I made this little script that automatically sets the relevant title in mpv for me. #!

I play a lot of Minecraft, both vanilla and with mods, which is partly why I use the third party and open source launcher MultiMC.

WoeUSB is a tool that makes it easy to create a bootable USB with Windows in Linux.

I almost always buy my music from Bandcamp these days (no affiliation—just a happy customer), it’s a DRM-free service that let’s you download the music in various formats, like FLAC and OGG Vorbis.

By default ls sorts all folders, symlinked folders and files by name and not by type and then by name, which I find quite annoying and sometimes even confusing.

Detox is a neat little command-line tool that helps you clean up filenames.

I wanted to record some audio the other day, but for some reason ALSA didn’t want to play nice with me.

I wrote this little script for Rofi that lets me launch Twitch streams using Twitchy.

Depending on what you’re watching, it’s not always that obvious when you pause a video in mpv.

I decided it was time to spice up my lockscreen, I’ve been using the same old static picture for what feels like years now.

Something I miss from other window managers like Herbstluftwm is tab completion in the shell for the commands and features it supports.

I’ve been using youtube-viewer for a long time now and it’s a great command-line client for YouTube.

I have finally found a good way of adding line numbers to a list in Vim.