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  Thread: Making the best CLI programs
Post: RE: Making the best CLI programs

I find myself returning to this page over the years: https://www.linfo.org/rule_of_silence.html
neeasade Programming On Unix 35 35,969 08-11-2023, 02:29 PM
  Thread: What do you use as a system monitor
Post: RE: What do you use as a system monitor

> Why do you need an alert when CPU temp goes up? Cooling issues? It was for an old thin thinkpad I had that probably needed thermal paste re-applied -- Positioning and a cooler could matter a lot...
neeasade Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization 13 8,309 12-02-2022, 05:02 PM
  Thread: What do you use as a system monitor
Post: RE: What do you use as a system monitor

I use htop. as far as "finding out when shit is whack", I monitor-- - temp and battery in a systemd user service: https://github.com/neeasade/dotfiles/blo...nsor_alert - disk space via a section on ...
neeasade Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization 13 8,309 10-02-2022, 10:08 PM
  Thread: Launchers
Post: RE: Launchers

I use emacs as dmenu for some frecency sort of stuff that I get. But at one point I was really annoyed with the delay on some dynamic stuff, and chased rofi for that reason (you can interact before st...
neeasade GNU/Linux 28 20,363 10-02-2022, 10:01 PM
  Thread: Where is what
Post: RE: Where is what

The shell is bash, in a scripting context -- and the \ trick is a fair callout for escaping aliases in an interactive context for sure!
neeasade Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization 11 9,072 30-11-2021, 02:26 AM
  Thread: Where is what
Post: RE: Where is what

tangently-related: Sometimes in my dotfiles I will wrap a program with some opinionated behavior (EG dmenu, or mpv). When that happens, I need a way to call the original program/fix the name collision...
neeasade Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization 11 9,072 29-11-2021, 02:03 PM
  Thread: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
Post: RE: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]

BUMP for posters in this thread. One month left bbs.
neeasade Community & Forums Related Discussions 17 6,867 29-11-2021, 01:56 PM
  Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!

One related hack re: no borders is a darker shadow: [Image: https://notes.neeasade.net/assets/img/de...-06-15.png]
neeasade Desktop Customization & Workflow 1,739 2,078,717 29-09-2021, 04:18 PM
  Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!

yo @seninha, nice looking
neeasade Desktop Customization & Workflow 1,739 2,078,717 17-09-2021, 05:04 PM
  Thread: Favourite Scripting Languages
Post: RE: Favourite Scripting Languages

I usually fallback to sh or sh-flavored bash, which is a limited but very available common denominator. babashka has been creeping into my scripts in places, and of I'll sometimes use emacs lisp in a ...
neeasade Programming On Unix 13 6,046 18-04-2021, 05:09 PM
  Thread: Share your file-opener script
Post: RE: Share your file-opener script

Here is my current "go to what I'm looking at" emacs function: https://github.com/neeasade/emacs.d/blob...el#L54-L60 The goal is to handle various fallbacks, through org links, files, urls, and code...
neeasade Programming On Unix 5 5,775 13-02-2021, 12:16 PM
  Thread: Keeping Track of Your Things
Post: RE: Keeping Track of Your Things

I stumbled upon that person awhile back when a blog post I made got scooped up into their MEMEX ---- for tracking things, I mostly rely on the tools within orgmode emacs. there are a few parts to my...
neeasade Desktop Customization & Workflow 53 42,310 26-01-2021, 09:31 PM
  Thread: Tiling Wallpapers.
Post: RE: Tiling Wallpapers.

Much wandering happening here: https://1-background.com/
neeasade Desktop Customization & Workflow 60 71,596 13-01-2021, 02:46 PM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?

The setup that is my blog has gotten away from me a little -- I'm going to try a combination of templating and org-static-blog as a reset -- I've also got some mild styling changes in mind. I've got ...
neeasade Programming On Unix 414 304,508 13-01-2021, 08:43 AM
  Thread: Ways To Make Windows More Comfortable/Usable For *nix Users
Post: RE: Ways To Make Windows More Comfortable/Usable F...

I use https://scoop.sh/ to get things on windows, and when I have to, chocolatey
neeasade Desktop Customization & Workflow 20 14,040 13-01-2021, 08:34 AM
  Thread: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
Post: RE: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]

In 2021, I want to feel comfortable "being myself" in various contexts. What this looks like to me is sort of a "fuck it" topper on communication that I sometimes have (I've found life with other huma...
neeasade Community & Forums Related Discussions 17 6,867 09-01-2021, 07:47 PM
  Thread: GoboLinux and Package Management
Post: RE: GoboLinux and Package Management

> what do you think of the idea of using a different hierarchy while also mixing it with a package manager that respects it. I think that's a great way to compromise to get what you need, /now/. A...
neeasade GNU/Linux 9 16,554 24-12-2020, 11:25 AM
  Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderbord

day 7 was super annoying, just did it
neeasade Community & Forums Related Discussions 30 12,111 08-12-2020, 03:32 PM
  Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderbord

! I did the last problem after getting home from "Thanksgiving 2". This is the first time I'm doing the problems "live"/as the days pass so I'm interested to see how it goes
neeasade Community & Forums Related Discussions 30 12,111 06-12-2020, 01:09 PM
  Thread: My panel scripts
Post: RE: My panel scripts

:D I guess at some point the switch just flipped. Actually, I think that's when I started trying to make my own schemes more, and I found it easier to reason about light colorschemes at the time.
neeasade Desktop Customization & Workflow 6 3,654 04-12-2020, 12:30 PM
  Thread: My panel scripts
Post: RE: My panel scripts

Sure -- These scrots are all with this panel setup: https://i.redd.it/0ehmvgi3huw51.png https://notes.neeasade.net/assets/img/de...9-11-2.png https://notes.neeasade.net/assets/img/de...-12-11.png htt...
neeasade Desktop Customization & Workflow 6 3,654 04-12-2020, 01:56 AM
  Thread: How To: Refresh your status bar in response to a hotkey
Post: RE: How To: Refresh your status bar in response to...

> This is much more difficult than I expected. How would you update something like - current machine's IP, Weather, BTC price, your inbox from mutt etc? These things do not require frequent updates...
neeasade Desktop Customization & Workflow 10 5,323 03-12-2020, 11:55 AM
  Thread: My panel scripts
Post: My panel scripts

This started as a reply in the other thread [1] but I quickly realized it was getting link-dense, so I copied it over here. This is a share of the scripts that drive my i3blocks -> lemonbar experie...
neeasade Desktop Customization & Workflow 6 3,654 03-12-2020, 11:54 AM
  Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag

Found it - https://kmandla.wordpress.com/about/ Let's up the ante... [Image: https://i.imgur.com/IDhNOEO.png]
neeasade Community & Forums Related Discussions 91 35,327 14-11-2020, 01:43 AM
  Thread: Tiling Wallpapers.
Post: RE: Tiling Wallpapers.

(10-11-2020, 08:01 AM)mcol Wrote: Anyone got a good workflow for making their own, and want to share their wisdom? There's an Xorg bitmap (xbm) editor, I forget the name of it. I found some old scro...
neeasade Desktop Customization & Workflow 60 71,596 11-11-2020, 03:05 PM
  Thread: Your PROMPT
Post: RE: Your PROMPT

(11-11-2020, 01:20 PM)jkl Wrote: I would assume that such a low contrast is very hard to stare at for a long time. This seems pretty high contrast to me -- I was curious and checked, I get 3.6 (the ...
neeasade Desktop Customization & Workflow 49 39,614 11-11-2020, 02:41 PM
  Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag

gotit: https://sortix.org/ [Image: https://i.imgur.com/nUfxm2Z.png]
neeasade Community & Forums Related Discussions 91 35,327 10-11-2020, 05:28 PM
  Thread: Computing As A Geek's Toy
Post: RE: Computing As A Geek's Toy

I saw this link today and thought of this thread: https://sysdevs.org/cows.webm
neeasade Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 9 4,617 06-11-2020, 07:40 PM
  Thread: A Nixers Internet Badge
Post: RE: A Nixers Internet Badge

brainstorming what if the "*" oriented logo had a little circle with a color at each end -- then for example we could give it 8 arms and make the colors map to the ascii colors black through white r...
neeasade Unix Related Arts & Image Manipulation Software 21 18,406 04-11-2020, 04:37 PM
  Thread: A Nixers Internet Badge
Post: RE: A Nixers Internet Badge

actually on the stickers thread I see this!: https://i.imgur.com/cttKKiq.png -- I might just use that lots of good options over there: https://nixers.net/Thread-Nixers-Stickers
neeasade Unix Related Arts & Image Manipulation Software 21 18,406 04-11-2020, 11:52 AM
  Thread: A Nixers Internet Badge
Post: RE: A Nixers Internet Badge

bumping -- I'm wanting to link the list of nixers sites as a form of webring on my site and looking for an image to use on the link. The list: https://github.com/nixers-projects/sites...user-sites ...
neeasade Unix Related Arts & Image Manipulation Software 21 18,406 04-11-2020, 11:49 AM
  Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!

B L U E https://0x0.st/idwL.png
neeasade Desktop Customization & Workflow 1,739 2,078,717 04-11-2020, 11:31 AM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?

a few months ago I wrote a bunch of color utilities for working in various colorspaces in emacs. I was exploring different ideas, and sort of left a bunch of sexp's all over the place. Now I'm cleanin...
neeasade Programming On Unix 414 304,508 25-10-2020, 05:07 PM
  Thread: what are you listening to?
Post: RE: what are you listening to?

I recently made a post containing many of my "gotos" https://notes.neeasade.net/sound-log.html but rn I'm stuck on all the bonobo albums.
neeasade Off topic 42 21,566 18-09-2020, 03:05 PM
  Thread: What IRC channel's do you auto connect to?
Post: RE: What IRC channel's do you auto connect to?

currently: https://github.com/neeasade/emacs.d/blob...l#L41-L123 mostly #emacs, #code, and #nixers_net -- I have highlights for things I'm interested in talking about, like emacs, clojure, or nix -- ...
neeasade Community & Forums Related Discussions 16 10,628 18-09-2020, 03:03 PM
  Thread: managing dotfiles with gnu stow
Post: RE: managing dotfiles with gnu stow

Maybe I'm a little conservative about what to pull into my environment, but I'm definitely invested in conforming all the configuration files in my environment to have the same bindings and color sche...
neeasade GNU/Linux 23 21,695 16-09-2020, 01:07 PM
  Thread: Should we set up a pixelfed instance?
Post: RE: Should we set up a pixelfed instance?

> An advantage pixelfed would have over this approach is that if someone decides "Oh I like neeasade's screenshots" then they can click on your profile and go to your pixelfed images just wanted t...
neeasade Community & Forums Related Discussions 17 6,957 07-09-2020, 07:24 PM
  Thread: Should we set up a pixelfed instance?
Post: RE: Should we set up a pixelfed instance?

(05-09-2020, 08:23 AM)mcol Wrote: I suppose the advantage this would provide would be an easily-accessible central point for all of a given user's images and their related discussions. right -- my p...
neeasade Community & Forums Related Discussions 17 6,957 05-09-2020, 09:34 AM
  Thread: Should we set up a pixelfed instance?
Post: RE: Should we set up a pixelfed instance?

I like this idea. One thing I'm kinda torn on is using it just for image hosting vs image hosting + discussion -- b/c you could just as well have a sub board here for sharing EG screenshots where the ...
neeasade Community & Forums Related Discussions 17 6,957 04-09-2020, 08:53 PM
  Thread: Hi nixers ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
Post: RE: Hi nixers ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ

(04-09-2020, 10:16 AM)mcol Wrote: Thanks for the welcomes! Quote:digorno I searched online to see what this word means and all I found was frozen pizza. this is the total meaning. celebrate frozen ...
neeasade Community & Forums Related Discussions 17 14,706 04-09-2020, 10:19 AM
  Thread: this week work?
Post: RE: this week work?

someone posted this cool package on /r/emacs: https://github.com/legalnonsense/org-clones It lets you sync the content of org headlines across files. One thing I'm taking advantage of git for in my w...
neeasade Off topic 10 5,206 04-09-2020, 09:57 AM
  Thread: G'day
Post: RE: G'day

digorno to nixers, Ramiferous
neeasade Community & Forums Related Discussions 9 6,278 04-09-2020, 09:53 AM
  Thread: Hi nixers ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
Post: RE: Hi nixers ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ

digorno to nixers, mcol
neeasade Community & Forums Related Discussions 17 14,706 04-09-2020, 09:51 AM
  Thread: Sci-fi and Futurism
Post: RE: Sci-fi and Futurism

When I was a little younger the Enders game book series took me through some nice SciFi adventures (the latter 3 books get very fun with concepts, I think) Also of course I would be remiss not to men...
neeasade Off topic 13 6,630 02-09-2020, 08:42 AM
  Thread: Lighter versions of sites
Post: RE: Lighter versions of sites

TIL you can use characters as a css width unit
neeasade The WWW 11 7,196 02-09-2020, 08:20 AM