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2025-07-15 Notes

I'm working on hyprland, one thing I am missing from my awesomewm setup is rofi list all running windows. Sometimes I put a browser instance in a different...

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Stop Complaining About Ubuntu…Just Switch To Arch Already! -… www.youtube.com
DT says it so well in this video, I’ve never really been one to shit on software projects, with maybe a VERY small handful of exceptions. The shitting on ubuntu always rubbed me wrong, shitting on flatpak and snap I never got, shitting on systemd because of Leonard Pottering I never got, DT puts it in such good words here. If you don’t like it you are probably not the target audience. If Ubuntu is too bloated, don’t try to debloat it, this is not windows, we have options, Ubuntu is one option and so much is intertwined together in something like Ubuntu if you think you want to try to “debloat” it good luck. If you have a problem with Snaps, this is probably not for you. You are probably looking for a distro with more control, probably something that you choose everything for.

2025-07-12 Notes

Starting the polkit agent for hyperland arch to handle permission elevation for desktop applications.

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Lab Update | Cloudy with a Chance of Tech blog.thomaswimprine.com
Lab Update Update on the lab setup and what I’ve been working on recently. Cloudy with a Chance of Tech · blog.thomaswimprine.com Always enjoy a good read through someone elses setup. I appreciate the desire for pi clusters they are cute, they seem cheap, but feel a bit overrated (at least for those of us with relatively cheap electricity). I love seeing the refurb “tiny desktops” getting a second useful life in a homelab after they have serve their useful life in the corporate world sitting behind the monitor of some reception desk. These things rock, they are underrated, x86_64, not ARM, so they just work. Until ARM becomes more normalized in the datacenter this is where its at.

2025-07-11 Notes

Continuing my exploration of Searchcraft I loaded all of my blog into it. It fully posted, indexed, and had my content ready for search in a literal blink....

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2025-07-10 Notes

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Notes – 17:00 Wed 9 Jul 2025 – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK) dbushell.com
Notes – 17:00 Wed 9 Jul 2025 Notes – 17:00 Wed 9 Jul 2025 dbushell.com · dbushell.com Enjoying watching David bring together his rss reader day by day. Excited to see where it goes. Im trying to get better at dropping notes like this without a ton of context, without needing to be right, just a note of whats on my mind and what I’m doing.
uv cache prune simonwillison.net
uv cache prune If you're running low on disk space and are a uv user, don't forget about uv cache prune: uv cache prune removes all unused cache entries. For example, the cache … Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net Good point to check on your uv cache if you are running low on disk space. I checked mine today, and it wasn’t too bad so I left it alone.

2025-07-09 Notes

What a nightmare this glossary plugin turns out to be, it broke my site. I had it really close, then one more change asked for to the llm, an LGTM and did...

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omarchy/install/webapps.sh at master · basecamp/omarchy github.com
I’m digging these web2app’s from DHH’s omarchy for setting up an opinionated archlinux hyprland. This gives a way to quickly open a web app as an app either with a hotkey or run launcher in its own dedicated window that you can put on it’s own workspace. I really like a workflow of keeping one window per workspace on one monitor and I can quickly navigate between apps with a single hotkey. This gives you the power to switch through things like chat, terminal, browser, steam game with blazing speed from the keybaord, no clicking no searching, just going directly to it.
⭐ kyantech Palmr
Check out kyantech and their project Palmr. 🌴 Palmr. is an open-source file-sharing platform focused on privacy and security. It enables users to upload, manage, and share files with features like password protection, custom links, and access control without tracking or limitations. Designed for seamless and secure sharing, Palmr. is completely free.

2025-07-08 Notes

Setting up the hyprland run launcher to not be case sensitive.

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2025-07-07 Notes

leaning into the rediculous rainbow borders instead of getting rid of them in hyprland.

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GitHub - chase/awrit: A full graphical web browser for Kitty t… github.com
GitHub - chase/awrit: A full graphical web browser for Kitty terminal with mouse and keyboard support A full graphical web browser for Kitty terminal with mouse and keyboard support - chase/awrit GitHub · github.com awrit is a full graphical browser that runs inside of kitty. I’ve moved on some of my machines away from kitty as the maintainer has seemed so hostile and there are other great therminals out there, but I’m going to give this a go. I have kitty running on my hyprland setup as it is the default anyways. It is actual chromium rendering to a kitty graphics protocol.

Aur

Arch User Repository, a collection of community maintained packages for archlinux.

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Paru

paru is a package manager for archlinux that installs packages from the AUR.

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Smooth clipboard settings for tmux is critical for my workflow. I’m often grabbing snippets of terminal output to paste into team chats, blog posts, or llm prompts. Admittedly, I’m often doing this with the mouse, unless it’s coming from neovim, which I generally do with motions. Moving from an xorg based setup to hyprland has required me to reconfigure my tmux clipboard settings. This is what I did.

First install wl-clipboard with AUR." data-hover-title="Paru">paru.

paru -S wl-clipboard

Next add this to your tmux config. I’ve long had this config, but with only the xorg/xclip setup, now this checks for wl-copy, uses it, or falls back to my old xclip setup.

bind -T copy-mode-vi Enter send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "bash -c 'command -v wl-copy >/dev/null && wl-copy || xclip -i -f -selection primary | xclip -i -selection clipboard'"
set-option -s set-clipboard off
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi MouseDragEnd1Pane send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "bash -c 'command -v wl-copy >/dev/null && wl-copy || xclip -i -f -selection primary | xclip -i -selection clipboard'"

Virtual Environment

Virtual Environment is term for a sandboxed environment commonly associated with the python programming language. If you are installing any sort of python...

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command palettes are overrated

Command palettes are slow, and overrated, you should treat yourself better. You probably installed VSC*** out of the box and your co-workers see you using the mouse and reprimanded you as they should. Mouse usage is not OK if you are a software dev, you should have the cheap ass free mouse that came with your cousins dell machine five years ago and only use if for emergencies. If you want to be fast you cannot do that by moving cursors to imprecise locations and clicking with your hand. You are not a caveman, put down the stones and get with the damn times. You need to be moving with precision. Stage One, the command palette # So you are taking your first few baby steps away from that Logitech MX Master and you need to get shit done, during these infant months the command palette is your friend. Use it you will be 10x faster than Razer Naga Ron from accounting. If you are in an IDE like or a JEttedBrains editor they come with a command palette for running commands and fuzy finding file…
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2025-07-06 Notes

hyprland volume control, I wasn't sure if I needed something specific for wayland/pipewire, nope pavucontrol just works.

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