The Modern CLI Renaissance

I’ve been experimenting with the tools I use on a regular basis lately – switching up my shell, terminal multiplexer, and even trying out other editors. Today, Id like to focus on my experiments with my shell. My old setup Before this, I had been using a minimal zsh setup for a long time, with only built in features and a handmade prompt. Zsh is...

I’ve been using a split keyboard at home now for several years (specifically, the UHKv2, though nowadays I probably would have gone for something ortholinear) and I’ve always wanted one for the office. The problem was, if I was going to get a new keyboard, I wanted it to be for both the office and travel, and most prebuilts around are not that...

I’ve been messing around with embedded rust recently, using the BBC micro:bit as a learning platform. Its really cool to see a high level language achieving the same results as low level c. However, one of my favorite features of rust, the ease of unit testing, is a bit less straightforward to do in cross-compiled, no-std projects. Obviously we...

So I’ve been using git to managing my dotfiles since [checks git log]… 2018. At first, I was going to write some inevitably brittle shell script to handle symlinking from the dotfile repo to where each file should be, but before I got about to implementing it, I discovered stow. Now, after using stow for dotfile management for over 5 years, I...

During the 5 or so years I’ve had Nextcloud, I’ve always been quite happy with the web client, but the device clients… need some work. I recently figured out how to resolve one of my biggest pain points on the Linux desktop client, and am recording it here, mostly so I don’t forget next time I setup a new computer, and to save others with the...