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  Thread: What do your usernames mean?
Post: RE: What do your usernames mean?
Because my name is Charles, ninjas are cool, I lik to think of myself as a code ninja (whatever that means), and ninjacharlie has a ring to it :)
 ninjacharlie 72 58,308 16-06-2016, 04:56 PM
  Thread: Best web browser
Post: RE: Best web browser
Quote:What I like with retawq is that it barely does anything: render page + display them in a pager + navigate to links, with a limited number of keybindings: Ohhh, I like it! Thanks for sharing :D
 ninjacharlie GNU/Linux 39 37,151 15-06-2016, 08:36 AM
  Thread: Favorite music for getting things done
Post: RE: Favorite music for getting things done
It can depend on my mood too, but normally I'll listen to whatevers in my favorites playlist. If I find that too distracting, I'll listen to classical. Anything, pre-20th century works. I especially ...
 ninjacharlie Off topic 19 19,014 13-06-2016, 09:34 PM
  Thread: Best web browser
Post: RE: Best web browser
I spend half my time in qutebrowser on sane websites that are XHTML and are pre-css3 garbage (i.e. reddit, github, nixers, lobste.rs), and the other half in inox, because "modern" websites are actuall...
 ninjacharlie GNU/Linux 39 37,151 13-06-2016, 09:23 PM
  Thread: Making the best CLI programs
Post: RE: Making the best CLI programs
I kind of wish coreutils had more standardized flags (i.e. -v will always be version, -V would always be verbose, -s would be silent or quiet so there would be no -q flag). Apart from that, the import...
 ninjacharlie Programming On Unix 35 36,943 23-05-2016, 10:08 AM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
(07-05-2016, 11:32 AM)z3bra Wrote: @ninjacharly, took a quick look at your pep.c, the macro LINE_MAX is defined in limits.h, that could help Cool! Didn't realize that macro existed. Thanks for the t...
 ninjacharlie Programming On Unix 414 312,907 07-05-2016, 01:58 PM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
Got two major projects going on right now: * a minimal irc client written in chicken-scheme: https://github.com/charles-l/i * a simple vim-like text editor: https://github.com/charles-l/pep
 ninjacharlie Programming On Unix 414 312,907 06-05-2016, 05:59 PM
  Thread: A Week In The TTY
Post: RE: A Week In The TTY
wow sshbio, great setup! Thanks for the great breakdown of the command too! :D
 ninjacharlie Community & Forums Related Discussions 85 81,902 06-04-2016, 10:00 PM
  Thread: Nixers magazine
Post: RE: Nixers magazine
(04-04-2016, 06:47 PM)z3bra Wrote: I'll start an article about turning an OpenBSD box into a router, and connect to to different alternative networks. Let's just stop speaking and start doing. For e...
 ninjacharlie Community & Forums Related Discussions 37 30,527 04-04-2016, 06:57 PM
  Thread: Your PROMPT
Post: RE: Your PROMPT
[Image: https://ptpb.pw/XbOP] 'cause lambdas are cool.
 ninjacharlie Desktop Customization & Workflow 49 40,448 04-04-2016, 03:49 PM
  Thread: A Week In The TTY
Post: RE: A Week In The TTY
Huh, interesting. I didn't realize it was that easy to make a TTY font. However, there's no way I could work consistently in the TTY, unless there's some way of using a duel monitor setup.
 ninjacharlie Community & Forums Related Discussions 85 81,902 04-04-2016, 03:44 PM
  Thread: Audio and music on Unix
Post: RE: Audio and music on Unix
(03-04-2016, 07:20 PM)arcetera Wrote: I installed OpenBSD on March 31, and to get audio working, I literally just had to `mixerctl -t outputs.master.mute` and it just worked. IIRC sndio can also be ...
 ninjacharlie Desktop Customization & Workflow 33 25,663 04-04-2016, 11:03 AM
  Thread: Audio and music on Unix
Post: RE: Audio and music on Unix
I feel your pain venam :( PavuControl is such crap - it adds confusion for no good reason. Every time I change my audio setup in the slightest, it's bound to screw it up and I'll waste an afternoon f...
 ninjacharlie Desktop Customization & Workflow 33 25,663 03-04-2016, 04:19 PM
  Thread: Dream keyboard?
Post: RE: Dream keyboard?
(19-09-2015, 11:35 PM)October Wrote: Anyone have any suggestions for a wireless keyboard? I'm trying to save space on my desk. Could always go with something open (like a Planck or the Infinity Keyb...
 ninjacharlie Hardware talk 34 32,100 03-04-2016, 08:56 AM
  Thread: unixporn light colors challenge
Post: RE: unixporn light colors challenge
Wow all your entries look awesome. Here's mine. It's kinda crap, but it was fun making: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/commen...lenge_mon/ [Image: http://i.imgur.com/HbNR5y0.png]
 ninjacharlie Desktop Customization & Workflow 27 25,497 26-03-2016, 09:56 PM
  Thread: ASCII & ANSI Art - The Unix Style
Post: RE: ASCII & ANSI Art - The Unix Style
After looking around a bit, I found a linux clone of thedraw called duhdraw. It's on AUR if anyone is interested.
 ninjacharlie Unix Related Arts & Image Manipulation Software 50 55,217 28-02-2016, 09:39 AM
  Thread: ASCII & ANSI Art - The Unix Style
Post: RE: ASCII & ANSI Art - The Unix Style
Holy crap, this stuff is awesome! I was also wondering if there are any utilities you can use for creating it. Awesome stuff though :D
 ninjacharlie Unix Related Arts & Image Manipulation Software 50 55,217 27-02-2016, 03:42 PM
  Thread: Project ideas and plans
Post: RE: Project ideas and plans
(08-02-2016, 04:21 AM)z3bra Wrote: You should definitely look into [pcc](http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se). Sadly, many programs rely heavily on gcc extensions to compile, and can't be compiled with pcc. It's...
 ninjacharlie Programming On Unix 18 15,900 08-02-2016, 12:14 PM
  Thread: Project ideas and plans
Post: RE: Project ideas and plans
I start a lot of projects. Some of them get finished, some of them just lurk on my GitHub profile forever. Here's the current TODO list: # po (my main project right now) * minimal lisp implementat...
 ninjacharlie Programming On Unix 18 15,900 07-02-2016, 10:57 PM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
Working on a lisp interpreter because I think CLISPs verbosity is crap. Chicken-scheme is better, but also isn't as terse as I'd like (think C stdlib). Working on the bytecode VM from which I'll boots...
 ninjacharlie Programming On Unix 414 312,907 29-01-2016, 11:56 PM
  Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
(04-01-2016, 10:58 PM)Wildefyr Wrote: I like simple patterns now.What do the two bars in the top represent? I'm guessing volume and load?
 ninjacharlie Desktop Customization & Workflow 1,739 2,110,658 05-01-2016, 04:15 PM
  Thread: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
Post: RE: Your latest workflow improvement
(28-12-2015, 09:28 AM)kirby Wrote: To stay vaguely on topic, I installed an SSD on my netbook so it's a lot quicker, which I guess is a workflow improvement haha. Which laptop are you using? I've be...
 ninjacharlie Desktop Customization & Workflow 163 138,166 28-12-2015, 01:39 PM
  Thread: Minimal photo editing on linux
Post: RE: Minimal photo editing on linux
(28-12-2015, 08:20 AM)FeRDNYC Wrote: While I obviously can't speak for ninjacharlie, BTW, I'm not trying to make a case for Darkroom. If there's something lighter weight out there with the features ...
 ninjacharlie Unix Related Arts & Image Manipulation Software 11 12,241 28-12-2015, 01:37 PM
  Thread: Smallest linux distro?
Post: RE: Smallest linux distro?
(26-12-2015, 06:25 PM)z3bra Wrote: Also, its rather "big" due to the fact that most tools featured are GNU softwares compiled with sane defaults. A full alpine setup would be drastically smaller I t...
 ninjacharlie Other *nix-like OSes & POSIX related 15 17,996 27-12-2015, 09:49 AM
  Thread: Smallest linux distro?
Post: RE: Smallest linux distro?
Linux From Scratch (also the most hardcore distro) ;)
 ninjacharlie Other *nix-like OSes & POSIX related 15 17,996 26-12-2015, 12:28 PM
  Thread: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
Post: RE: Your latest workflow improvement
(14-12-2015, 06:14 AM)Wildefyr Wrote: Got rid of tiling with fyre and I'm instead using more precise movement scripts to 'slot' windows into place -> https://u.teknik.io/8oqvjF.webm I actually di...
 ninjacharlie Desktop Customization & Workflow 163 138,166 24-12-2015, 09:12 PM
  Thread: Minimal photo editing on linux
Post: RE: Minimal photo editing on linux
Found this post to be very useful: http://www.rileybrandt.com/2012/07/31/linux-photo-1/ The rest of the site is interesting as well. I personally have been happy using ImageMagick for basic editing ...
 ninjacharlie Unix Related Arts & Image Manipulation Software 11 12,241 24-12-2015, 09:09 PM
  Thread: Everything is a file
Post: RE: Everything is a file
I really think that its cool who easy it is to create your own FUSE filesystem for whatever wacky way you want to expose your code through files. One of my recent ideas (haven't yet had a chance to im...
 ninjacharlie Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 21 18,169 17-12-2015, 10:26 AM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
(16-12-2015, 10:35 AM)darthlukan Wrote: Sorry for the severely delayed reply: That's Leadwerks Game EngineAhhhh interesting. I was actually trying to find an (actively developed) 3D game engines tha...
 ninjacharlie Programming On Unix 414 312,907 16-12-2015, 06:06 PM
  Thread: Blurred Wallpapers.
Post: RE: Blurred Wallpapers.
I really like unsplash for background images. They're all high quality and not distracting. They also have an API that grabs a random image (of a certain size) and returns a URL to a valid image. # i...
 ninjacharlie Desktop Customization & Workflow 9 11,054 07-12-2015, 09:49 PM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
(28-11-2015, 11:29 AM)darthlukan Wrote: I'm working on a horror/psychological thriller video game :) [Image: http://i.imgur.com/OQQiRVO.png] Which engine is that? Unreal? Source?
 ninjacharlie Programming On Unix 414 312,907 29-11-2015, 10:00 AM
  Thread: Personal information management
Post: RE: Personal information management
(12-11-2015, 08:17 AM)z3bra Wrote: Beware not turning vim into one then ;) Lol, don't worry. I always pipe out whenever I can (the '!' keybinding is a life saver). Vim's monolithic-ness has always b...
 ninjacharlie Desktop Customization & Workflow 17 15,929 12-11-2015, 10:14 AM
  Thread: Show Us Your Library !
Post: RE: Show Us Your Library !
(11-11-2015, 03:50 PM)schisma Wrote: here's mine: http://i.pomf.pl/bxcltw.jpg Ayyy Eragon! I loved that series a few years ago. Read the entire series within 2 weeks the first time around :P
 ninjacharlie Off topic 5 5,953 11-11-2015, 06:14 PM
  Thread: Personal information management
Post: RE: Personal information management
(11-11-2015, 05:15 PM)z3bra Wrote: man you should take a look at this awesome tool which let you do a tons of things: emacs.Ooh, looks interesting, but I don't need a full fledged operating system. ...
 ninjacharlie Desktop Customization & Workflow 17 15,929 11-11-2015, 06:12 PM
  Thread: Am I the Only One?
Post: RE: Am I the Only one?
Hrm... never heard of that before. I tend to use Vim with a notes plugin to simplify internal note navigation (https://github.com/xolox/vim-notes), which isn't quite as full fledged, but pretty much d...
 ninjacharlie Desktop Customization & Workflow 11 9,680 11-11-2015, 09:15 AM
  Thread: Personal information management
Post: RE: Personal information management
*To-do lists* Vim *Contacts* Vim *Calendars (and notifications)* When (with Vim) *Note taking and storage* Vim *Email setups (this should be fun!)* Mutt (with Vim) *Device synchronization* Git (d...
 ninjacharlie Desktop Customization & Workflow 17 15,929 11-11-2015, 09:12 AM
  Thread: Favorite Terminal Applications
Post: RE: Favorite Terminal Applications
music: mpd / ncmpcpp / mpc video: ffplay file Manager: coreutils / (occasionally) ranger irc client: irssi terminal emulator: rxvt-unicode system monitor: "ps -e | grep" text editor: neovim screenshot...
 ninjacharlie BSD 115 90,910 07-11-2015, 09:14 AM
  Thread: Fun with history
Post: RE: Fun with history
(27-10-2015, 03:04 PM)venam Wrote: That's an interesting analyze of history. You could extract the most used commands an make a boostrap script to set them up on your new installs. That way you won'...
 ninjacharlie Off topic 2 3,304 27-10-2015, 04:46 PM
  Thread: Audio and music on Unix
Post: RE: Audio and music on Unix
Nice breakdown of the options, venam. Gonna have to look into some of the audio editors. I've been rolling with ALSA (plz kill pulseaudio... as well as systemd and anything else that Poettering touch...
 ninjacharlie Desktop Customization & Workflow 33 25,663 23-10-2015, 07:24 PM
  Thread: Other neat places online
Post: RE: Other neat places online
(11-10-2015, 09:31 PM)schisma Wrote: isn't hacker news like one of the most hostile communities in the tech world nah... reddit is much, much worse (depending upon the subreddit you're on). HackerN...
 ninjacharlie Off topic 16 12,939 11-10-2015, 10:03 PM
  Thread: Other neat places online
Post: RE: Other neat places online
Here's a list of sites I'm subscribed to via RSS: - Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com) - lacking some of the technical community that it used to have but sometimes has interesting articles - ...
 ninjacharlie Off topic 16 12,939 11-10-2015, 09:52 AM
  Thread: Let's see your githubs, and let's get forkin'
Post: RE: Let's see your githubs, and let's get forkin'
I have a very strange list of utils, games and half-baked projects on my github page. Most notable are: - Koona (a simple compiler written in Ruby) - Shmark (a simple POSIX bookmarking system) - Some ...
 ninjacharlie Community & Forums Related Discussions 29 19,985 08-10-2015, 08:39 AM
  Thread: Stickers! Which one's do you have, where'd you get them?
Post: RE: Stickers! Which one's do you have, where'd yo...
Thanks venam! I'll be ordering one of these soon :D
 ninjacharlie Hardware talk 18 14,420 01-10-2015, 05:28 PM
  Thread: Stickers! Which one's do you have, where'd you get them?
Post: RE: Stickers! Which one's do you have, where'd yo...
(01-10-2015, 12:47 AM)venam Wrote: I got the nixers sticker. Where could I get one of those?
 ninjacharlie Hardware talk 18 14,420 01-10-2015, 08:45 AM
  Thread: Stickers! Which one's do you have, where'd you get them?
Post: RE: Stickers! Which one's do you have, where'd yo...
I have an "Opinions!" bumper sticker from xkcd (http://store.xkcd.com/products/opinions-bumper-sticker), a Steelseries sticker, and some Arduino stickers. All of them came from products that I bought ...
 ninjacharlie Hardware talk 18 14,420 30-09-2015, 05:15 PM