Sal's Blog

I set my terminal’s font to Iosevka this morning after skimming this thread on HN.

One thing I love about the i3 window manager is what’s called the scratchpad.

There’s a thing I love about my ThinkPad, beyond Linux or the keyboard or anything like that: it’s a fun computer.

Life’s been stressful lately, and I’m feeling the wear and tear.

This is an appreciation post for Jack’s recent one, I am comfortable living in Linux, but….

We have a nice kitchen vent hood over our range.

Since diving back into [Neo]vim, I’ve been working with my Obsidian vault from the terminal.

I’ve bounced off jrnl a few times.

Hello again from my Thinkpad.

Apple Watch: You didn’t sleep very well last night.

And not just because Kev did. 😆 I was amused to see Kev’s post because I had the same experience and realization recently.

I wrote my last post at a cafe on my laptop.

A common feature in Linux window managers is the ability to have multiple “workspaces” or “virtual desktops” or whatever you want to call them.

My Thinkpad arrived yesterday.

Nice post from Watts Martin today: Org Mode, Marked, and Workflows.

I keep seeing people talk about herdr, so against my better judgment, I searched up tmux vs. herdr.

I loved Kev’s latest post, It’s Never Too Late to Learn, for lots of reasons.

First: Apple Passwords works really nicely.

When I recently whined about modal editing feeling clunky, I think I was being impatient, as I’ve been hitting Vim and Neovim pretty hard lately and have not been feeling that way.

I’ve been wanting a Linux laptop for a while now.

This just popped into my RSS reader: Alfred 6: Unlimited Possibilities. 🥹 I’m a Legendary Supporter, so I’ll get this upgrade for free, but I’m going to find some way to pay for it anyway.

My wife did an Enneagram exercise recently, so I took a look.

The kerfuffle, abbreviated: DHH appears to leaning pretty far to the right when it comes to social politics.

I’ve seen a number of posts in vaguely recent history admonishing bloggers to do better with meeting accessibility standards and whatnot.

I added a dark-theme toggle to this blog about a month ago.

I finally got around to self-hosting Home Assistant on my home server, and one of my early discoveries was that CO2 rapidly spikes into the warning zone when I’m working in my home office.

The wife and I left our 10- and 12-year-old kids at home last night and set off walking to a nearby restaurant.

As I mentioned in my recent post, I’ve turned a corner with AI.

From GitHub’s blog post, The August 17 outage, and the work ahead: Since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion.

Well, I’ve gone from initial, curmudgeonly reluctance, to shruggy acceptance, to full-blown, guns-blazing, AI mania at work.

Due to a camping mishap that sent me to the emergency room yesterday morning (a part of our tent infrastructure ended up embedded in my thumb, but I’m okay), I forgot to take my Methylphenidate pill.

You know the ones: “The web is dying.”

Naturally I clicked into The Listening Museum when I saw it in Kottke’s feed. “36 mechanical keyboards and switches, curated and sound-mapped.

The Altar II is a mechanical Magic Keyboard.

Here’s a cool fish trick: abbr --add jjc --set-cursor -- 'jj commit -m "%"' This adds an abbreviation, which is a like an auto-expanding bash alias, that puts your cursor at the % character.