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  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?

I created a simple web app that is self contained in an executable, it allows me to keep track of crypto transactions. It's still very simple but does everything that I need. https://github.com/bruno...
strang3quark Programming On Unix 414 306,410 09-06-2023, 03:57 PM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?

I did a small utility to "rollback" packages on Arch Linux. It basically generates a list of packages installed on the system and provides a way to restore the missing packages and remove the packages...
strang3quark Programming On Unix 414 306,410 26-04-2018, 07:14 PM
  Thread: Running Linux on a chinese laptop
Post: Running Linux on a chinese laptop

Some time ago I bought a cheap chinese laptop, it is a Teclast F7, it is cheap, has a great build quality and a reasonable performance. When I bought it, it was almost a perfect Linux machine, the on...
strang3quark Hardware talk 0 2,814 23-04-2018, 04:27 PM
  Thread: blogs
Post: RE: blogs

I made my blog platform in PHP, it's really simple, the website pages go on the "pages" directory, the styling in the "template" directory and the articles in the "articles" directory. The articles a...
strang3quark The WWW 30 30,511 24-03-2018, 09:27 PM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?

I'm trying to post stuff on my blog (strangequark.tk). I also have a project (pricetracker.tk), it's a tracker for product prices written in PHP, I'm lacking motivation to keep it going, I'm thinking ...
strang3quark Programming On Unix 414 306,410 24-03-2018, 09:08 PM
  Thread: Hi, nixers
Post: RE: Hi, nixers

Welcome to nixers. Have you decided on which project you want to contribute?
strang3quark 4 4,672 24-03-2018, 04:08 PM
  Thread: Struggling to use linux in college
Post: RE: Struggling to use linux in college

When I was taking an IT degree no one in a class had an apple computer, most of them used HP, Asus and Toshiba computers, me and a friend had (and I still have) a Dell laptop. None of them used Linux ...
strang3quark GNU/Linux 32 32,890 08-02-2018, 05:53 PM
  Thread: Struggling to use linux in college
Post: RE: Struggling to use linux in college

Well I suffered from the same problem when I was taking my degree. You can use tools like Google Docs, in my case I didn't bothered too much, the school offered licenses for Windows Education Edition...
strang3quark GNU/Linux 32 32,890 24-12-2017, 07:21 PM
  Thread: What font are you using now?
Post: RE: What font are you using now?

I'm using Source Code Pro, looks good on the terminal
strang3quark Desktop Customization & Workflow 113 100,512 25-09-2017, 06:58 PM
  Thread: Internet scavenger hunt III
Post: RE: Internet scavenger hunt III

Sorry z3bra, I have some important work to do, but I will go back to the hunt as soon as I can.
strang3quark Community & Forums Related Discussions 34 37,594 17-03-2017, 02:20 PM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?

I'm working in an App to send and receive SMS from the smartphone using the computer browser. It has some issues but it's working (the JS client needs a rewrite, I'm learning JS right now). I made a p...
strang3quark Programming On Unix 414 306,410 26-02-2017, 12:38 PM
  Thread: A Curated Newsletter
Post: RE: A Curated Newsletter

--I'm not getting the newsletter through RSS feed.-- NOTE: Sorry, the feed is fine, I noticed it's a "bug" in my software. I store all feeds in a database and the URL column has "unique" attribute, ...
strang3quark Community & Forums Related Discussions 41 34,840 07-01-2017, 10:42 AM
  Thread: Using different editors for configuration and actual development...
Post: RE: Using different editors for configuration and ...

It depends, I use vim for almost everything but sometimes I need to work with Java (Android) and there's no point in using vim for that.
strang3quark Programming On Unix 32 28,482 06-01-2017, 08:51 PM
  Thread: 0verkill
Post: RE: 0verkill

That looks fun, I haven't found any public server.
strang3quark Off topic 5 6,302 30-12-2016, 01:33 PM
  Thread: Post your website
Post: RE: Post your website

(26-12-2016, 08:33 PM)dbcooper Wrote: Just awoke my site from the dead and created a nice placeholder. http://hadenodom.info Problem is, after I made the placeholder index.html with links to my g...
strang3quark The WWW 127 120,223 26-12-2016, 10:18 PM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?

I'm creating a simple REST API for android to let me send and receive SMS from my computer over a Wifi connection. It's a school project.
strang3quark Programming On Unix 414 306,410 26-12-2016, 07:06 PM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?

(06-11-2016, 12:44 AM)jkl Wrote: My Web-to-RSS parser comes with a simple web interface now, written in pure Common Lisp (no HTML, no JavaScript, no CSS). Enjoy. Screenshot. That's awesome, I've tho...
strang3quark Programming On Unix 414 306,410 26-12-2016, 04:59 PM
  Thread: Hola, nice to found this place.
Post: RE: Hola, nice to found this place.

Welcome to nixers. There's more than podcasts here: https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=1939 Join us on IRC.
strang3quark 12 10,322 21-12-2016, 12:28 PM
  Thread: Hello my name is xcko
Post: RE: Hello my name is xcko

You sure came to the right place, don't be afraid to contribute. You should take a look at the IRC channel. https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=1876
strang3quark 8 6,755 19-12-2016, 10:25 PM
  Thread: Post your website
Post: RE: Post your website

(12-12-2016, 10:54 AM)pranomostro Wrote: @strang3quark: Did you use bootstrap for that? Looks nice, and, like you said, quite professional. Yes, but I only did some adjustments to the template, I d...
strang3quark The WWW 127 120,223 12-12-2016, 05:45 PM
  Thread: A Curated Newsletter
Post: RE: A Curated Newsletter

I've implemented the RSS support, it isn't the prettiest code I ever made but I think it does the job. You can check the changes here: https://github.com/nixers-projects/newsl...3quark_rss I've sent ...
strang3quark Community & Forums Related Discussions 41 34,840 12-12-2016, 05:08 PM
  Thread: A Curated Newsletter
Post: RE: A Curated Newsletter

(12-12-2016, 01:05 AM)venam Wrote: If you're up to the task and really prefer an RSS feed, you can do a pull request to the github repo ( https://github.com/nixers-projects/newsletter ), more specif...
strang3quark Community & Forums Related Discussions 41 34,840 12-12-2016, 07:44 AM
  Thread: A Curated Newsletter
Post: RE: A Curated Newsletter

What about "distributing" the newsletter in RSS format?
strang3quark Community & Forums Related Discussions 41 34,840 11-12-2016, 09:14 PM
  Thread: Post your website
Post: RE: Post your website

My old website is down, I decided to create a new one. http://brunojesus.tk/ http://brunojesus.tk/blog I will change the main page for blog as soon as I made the blog page more "professional". I hav...
strang3quark The WWW 127 120,223 09-12-2016, 03:56 PM
  Thread: Learning Go over C and Python
Post: RE: Learning Go over C and Python

I write most of my projects in Python but I don't think that's a good option for beginners, sure it's easy but you wouldn't understand the basics of programming with it, this also applies to PHP and J...
strang3quark Programming On Unix 13 11,947 06-12-2016, 08:15 AM
  Thread: Mechanical Love
Post: RE: Mechanical Love

I got two cherry g80-3000. https://www.dropbox.com/s/qlxdpoo0vuihdf....webm?dl=0
strang3quark Hardware talk 67 57,604 07-08-2016, 08:54 AM
  Thread: Hacking video contest [finished]
Post: RE: Hacking video contest

I've been busy these weeks, I got some free time today to record the video. Where should I submit it?
strang3quark Community & Forums Related Discussions 37 36,834 07-08-2016, 06:44 AM
  Thread: Hacking video contest [finished]
Post: RE: Hacking video contest

That seems like fun, I'm in!
strang3quark Community & Forums Related Discussions 37 36,834 23-07-2016, 05:58 PM
  Thread: Best web browser
Post: RE: Best web browser

I use firefox with vimperator and Stylish extension,it looks great and I love the way I can customize it to my taste. The downside is that it takes too long to open for the first time after boot.
strang3quark GNU/Linux 39 36,468 23-07-2016, 05:40 PM
  Thread: Is this forum dead?
Post: RE: Is this forum dead?

As venam said this is not dead, it's better to have a forum with great content and few posts than a forum full of post with no quality. There's always some action on IRC, irc.nixers.net #unix
strang3quark Off topic 15 14,479 17-07-2016, 09:19 AM
  Thread: What do your usernames mean?
Post: RE: What do your usernames mean?

I hope I will never need to learn this stuff... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_quark
strang3quark 72 57,167 17-06-2016, 01:09 AM
  Thread: Forums CSS Theme
Post: RE: Forums CSS Theme

I've changed to new dark, I prefer dark themes.
strang3quark Community & Forums Related Discussions 16 11,939 12-06-2016, 10:28 AM
  Thread: What font are you using now?
Post: RE: What font are you using now?

Inconsolata for Powerline 12px for terminal.
strang3quark Desktop Customization & Workflow 113 100,512 10-06-2016, 11:28 PM
  Thread: Smallest linux distro?
Post: RE: Smallest linux distro?

I've used Tiny Core, I like the frugal mode. The "bad" thing about tiny core are the repos, you'll probably need to compile and make some packages.
strang3quark Other *nix-like OSes & POSIX related 15 17,784 26-12-2015, 05:08 PM
  Thread: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
Post: RE: Your latest workflow improvement

I made some changes in lnotify.py for weechat. I was tired of not getting notifications when I had the private chat open and moved to another i3 workspace. Now if I the weechat buffer is open but i3 w...
strang3quark Desktop Customization & Workflow 163 135,076 24-12-2015, 11:44 AM
  Thread: Hi! I'm xikuuky.
Post: RE: Hi! I'm xikuuky.

Welcome to nixers. Why Void linux, do you use dwb?
strang3quark 17 11,835 24-12-2015, 11:39 AM
  Thread: UNIX Diary
Post: RE: UNIX Diary

(13-12-2015, 08:31 AM)pranomostro Wrote: If something fails, it is the users fault, and the program exits without cleaning everything up. It's easy to blame the user when our software doesn't work c...
strang3quark Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 188 178,964 13-12-2015, 03:57 PM
  Thread: A tutorial request thread?
Post: RE: A tutorial request thread?

I think that's a good idea
strang3quark Community & Forums Related Discussions 7 5,731 01-12-2015, 12:01 AM
  Thread: The Meme'd Desktop
Post: RE: The Meme'd Desktop

(26-11-2015, 07:51 PM)z3bra Wrote: [*]htop [*]screenfetch for archlinux [*]firefox openned on /r/unixporn [*]ncmpcpp [*]scrot [*]numix [*]solarized colorschemeThis one seems pretty close except for ...
strang3quark Desktop Customization & Workflow 13 12,439 26-11-2015, 11:51 PM
  Thread: Let's talk amdgpu
Post: RE: Let's talk amdgpu

AMD on linux simply sucks. The OpenSource driver stopped working for me (I have no idea why): Code:https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1581062 The Proprietary driver simply does not work (Whi...
strang3quark Hardware talk 4 5,483 25-11-2015, 07:16 AM
  Thread: Hi!
Post: RE: Hi!

Welcome to nixers
strang3quark 10 6,902 23-11-2015, 12:31 PM
  Thread: How Important Do You Think Math Is To Programming?
Post: RE: How Important Do You Think Math Is To Programm...

It really depends on what you are programming, I'm a University student and I've the best grades from my class in programming and also one of the worst students at math, I've failed at calculus.
strang3quark Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 12 11,818 29-09-2015, 11:47 AM
  Thread: What phone are you using?
Post: RE: What phone are you using?

(27-09-2015, 12:36 AM)skrzyp Wrote: Currently, Nokia 3300 - it's actually an Nokia 3310 with expanded memory (4MB ROM and 512k RAM compared to 3310's 2MB ROM and 256k RAM)) and it deserves to its ow...
strang3quark Hardware talk 48 41,006 27-09-2015, 09:18 AM
  Thread: What phone are you using?
Post: RE: What phone are you using?

I am using a old Huawei Ascend G300 with CyanogenMod 9, it simply sucks. I need to get a new phone.
strang3quark Hardware talk 48 41,006 22-09-2015, 10:25 AM
  Thread: What's on your wishlist?
Post: RE: What's on your wishlist?

@pranomostro: Nobody can, but there must be someone "waiting". @Houseoftea: That sucks, I had one too in February, it was a 3 year relationship... Anyway, I heard about Slidenjoy, it looks really c...
strang3quark Off topic 32 23,812 14-09-2015, 10:45 AM