I really enjoy Davidās Glossary, he has absolutely nailed it. Iām working on one for myself that feels close but not quite. I want to have a list of words that auto glossary to terms for me, maybe this is too much automation and I should just lean on wikilinks, i.e. sick wikilink hover, they only take wrapping in brackets. But like David mentions here its a lot of work to make sure they are right on all the older posts. I think it needs to be done with js on my setup, I donāt have no fancy wroker to modify html on the way out, Iām fully static right now, so i would need to do full rebuilds any time the glossary changes, iām trying to cut down on the number of features that require full site rebuilds and potential cache issues.
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I like reading about old hardware and how to keep it running, sending shit out to e-waste after barely using it for a year makes my skin crawl. I find it interesting how most of these resurrections start with a linux build, and the author giving in and going for linux for the first time and enjoying being able to use something they thought was useless for real work.
That being said I have weird thoughts similar to this guy about being able to take a machine and write a novel somewhere off in the distance, but any time I try to do real work form any laptop these days the ergonomics become so unappealing that I tend to just not do anything away from my desk. Theres something that sounds so great about opening vim on old hardware that could last for hours, sip on coffee and write away, but it never works out like that in practice.
2025-07-24 Notes
Completed the 8-bit dungeon in Cat Quest III with wyatt today.
2025-07-23 Notes
Today I set up hypridle on my hyprland desktop build. It was not too bad, I'm probably going to tweak it as it I go if it bothers me, for now I'm giving it a...
2025-07-22 Notes
Next I ripped a calendar from the docs. When hovered I get a full year calendar, right click gives me only the current month.
Fantastic resource of background textures, I will be using this for some projects.
2025-07-21 Notes
In my adventure to rice out hyprland I set up a sddm theme today, and it looks sick by only changing the wallpaper. I tried out one theme and was pretty...
Such a fantastic use of uv, its so fast and flexible and does everything I need that next time I go to set up some more complex testing like this Iām going to lean towards it more than i would something like tox. In the post Daniel sets up matrix testing for testing out different versions of python with the same pytest test suite.
2025-07-19 Notes
Progress on markata themes, I'm able to get feedback in the terminal. I'm building out a custom color model that will be able to mix and blend colors with...
2025-07-18 Notes
fc is pretty great.
big fan of eza and dust, I like these aliases to have some common commands at my fingertips. I often use the tree command and yes it sometimes goes too deep to actually be useful.
Love this dudes casual dry humor style, not afraid to poke fun at things with his dry ass satire. that being said, fc is new and as a long time fan of up arrow and !! I will be using this often.
I am a linux user through and through. Desktop, server, vms, containers, everything except my phone is linux. With this I spend a lot of time in the terminal, and have been a long time user of !! to rerun the last command, but with the ability to tack something on at the beginning or end.
TIL about fc, which opens the last command in your shell history in your $EDITOR or pass in your editor -e nvim.
!! pronounces bang bang and will run the last command in your history.
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2025-07-17 Notes
TIL pygments-htmlformatter is a big win for markata, didn't have a chance to take notes yesterday, but I'm really working on templates and themes. It's...
Iāve been a long user of pygments, itās been the thing that injects <spans> with funny little class names like sc and si into the code blocks of my website. Iāve even gone as far as implementing a plugin for md-it, but I had no idea how to re-style it. I long ago got a theme that looked good enough from somewhere and just used it, maybe I pulled something from their docs site and forgot. Today I learned you can list all the themes easily from the library itself, and render out new css.
from pygments.styles import get_all_styles list(get_all_styles()) # [ # 'abap', # 'algol_nu', # 'algol', # 'arduino', # 'autumn', # 'borland', # 'bw', # 'colorful', # 'default', # 'dracula', # 'emacs', # 'friendly_grayscale', # 'friendly', # 'fruity', #...
Looking for inspiration? shell by caelestia-dots.
A very segsy desktop shell
This has to be the most incredible looking Desktop experience Iāve ever seen, riced to the nines, more polished than macos, more features than kde plasma, this looks incredible and I want to try it and feel it.
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...
DT says it so well in this video, Iāve 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 donāt like it you are probably not the target audience.
If Ubuntu is too bloated, donāt 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 ādebloatā 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.