Emacs needs Interfaces: ELisp & the Emacs Ecosystem
I’ve been an Emacs user for the better part of four years. A simple requirement is making me rethink that, after seeing how original design decisions hold up...
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It’s FOSS: “Amid Epstein Controversy, Richard Stallman is Forced to Resign as FSF President”
https://itsfoss.com/richard-stallman-controversy She didn’t want a clarification or apology. All she wanted was to remove Stallman even if it means &#...
blog12/meetup3: Spacemacs
This past week at RITLug, I give a quick overview of my favorite editor and customizations. Of course, I can’t imagine a text editor that doesn’t include a...
blog11: Python tooling
Oh dear. I love Python. It’s wonderful for prototyping, and it simplifies much of high-level programming. There’s a package for everything, from data scien...
blog07: RSS and selfoss
About a year ago, I realized just how sick I was of social media-esque news aggregators. By that I mean Reddit and Hackernews. They were huge timewasters, ...
blog06: Ansible!
This past week was mostly be playing around with Ansible. I’ve been tasked with orchestrating new hardware, and tinkering with database values to squeeze o...
I’m not on my phone much anymore.
There are plenty of blog posts already, discussing the toxic effects of social media and electronic communication integrating themselves in our lives. But,...
How I self host
Why self host? Self hosting applications is important to me. Intelligent, talented people have written freely available alternatives to giant services like...
The appeal of upstream: why my dotfiles commits are dwindling
As I dive into my senior year at RIT, I have a lot less time to explore software configurations: new plugins, workflows, and the software that accompanies ...
Deploying your server with Docker Compose
Finding a server setup that was not a mess, stable, and sustainable long term has been a bit of a problem for me. In the beginning, there were bare metal i...
KDE and Xmonad in 2018
I love tiling window managers: I’ve used i3 for years, and ever since I started learning Haskell, I was curious about Xmonad. However, during my i3 experie...
Mirroring a Gogs repository on Github
Gogs makes it pretty easy to mirror another repository. Github… doesn’t. While it’d just be easier to move my Gogs repository to Github, that would mean ...
Moving from Vim to Emacs: 10 months later, here’s what I’ve learned
I started exploring Emacs around 10 months ago, mostly using Aaron Bieber’s posts on the subject to get started. I went into the transition with high hopes...
Express Generator and Socket.io
A few months ago, I tried to start a Node project to further explore web development. It’s the LAN equivalent of a Jukebox: people go to the site, add mu...
Every top Facebook comment I’ve seen on Net Neutrality articles has been against it. That disappoints me.
Okay. Net Neutrality is: The thing that lets Netflix load as fast as Google, because data is treated equally The thing that lets you host comcast-sh...
L=A Update: It’s been done, and here’s how you do it.
This is a conclusion to my other two posts. If it can be called a conclusion: I wasn’t on the right track. Or any track at all, really. I knew what HID was...
Us Vs. Them
If you’re continuously posting, discussing or following anything political on social media, particularly this past week, I need to ask you to do something:...
NTR and HID
Off and on over the past month, I’ve set up astronautlevel2’s BootNTR fork, imthe666st’s NTRClient fork (a debugging tool for NTR), and have played around ...
L=A, How I Miss You So
Nintendo semi-recently released Generation 1 Pokemon games on the 3DS through the eShop, and they’ve been a hit. The implementation of the Game Boy’s link ...