Most of the tasks in our introductory assignment were familiar to me: I’ve used IRC, mailing lists, and git throughout the years. However, extra familiarity is always a good thing, especially if I want to be comfortable in new development communities! IRC I’ve been on #rit-foss for… a while. I think I jumped on my […]
Why self host? Self hosting applications is important to me. Intelligent, talented people have written freely available alternatives to giant services like Dropbox, GSuite, messaging applications, hypervisors, anything you can think of. These come without the restrictions of free accounts: rate limits, storage limits, and snooping. Plus, many of my favorite games allow hosting a […]
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 them, all take too much time to learn and incorporate with my current workflow. As I’ve written before: Spacemacs does 90% of what I want to do, but […]
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 installs When I got my home server 3 years ago, I had all sorts of services I wanted to put on it. Owncloud, Gogs, ZNC, […]
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 experience, I missed a lot of expected features from a full desktop environment (consistent themes, background support, notifications, system trays, etc.) Since running your own window manager with GNOME […]
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 changing the remote of 3-4 local repositories. And, I wouldn’t learn anything. Hooks, glorious hooks Since Github won’t watch our Gogs repository, we’ll have our Gogs repository watch itself. […]
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: the incredible support and extensibility of Emacs had me thinking it was simply a superset of Vim. I could do everything I do in Vim in Emacs, and […]
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 music from Youtube or a file, and the song is put into a queue. The server has a speaker, through which it plays each song. The […]
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-should-die-a-fiery-death.com, and, despite Comcast reaaallly not wanting to let users connect to that, is forced to allow users to do so – how you can retrieve any sort […]
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, so that’s a start. Someone much more knowledgeable than me has set up a button swapping tool based off of InputRedirection, which […]