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Sal
I'm Sal, and this is my spot. I'm a middle-aged guy with a wife, kids, and a job. Isn't that exciting?? I've had several blogs over the years and have enjoyed all of them. With each iteration, I lower my ambitions, take it less seriously, and try to have more fun. This one is another step in all of those directions, and I'm hoping it sticks around the longest. Disclaimer: I tend to write in short timeboxes and following the 70% rule. If a post seems shallow or half-baked ... yep!
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This is an appreciation post for Jack’s recent one, I am comfortable living in Linux, but…. In the Linux vs. Mac conundrum, I’ve read endless commentary from Linux folks justifying Linux and Mac folks justifying Mac. Just as with text editors, people like what they’re familiar with. And that’s to be expected. Jack’s...
We have a nice kitchen vent hood over our range. We had it installed in 2018 as part of our kitchen remodel. I’ve been cleaning out its grease trap from time to time, but I’d never removed the housing and cleaned the actual blower until last week. I didn’t realize I was supposed to until I saw it mentioned...
Since diving back into [Neo]vim, I’ve been working with my Obsidian vault from the terminal. One feature I’ve been missing from the Obsidian app is text highlighting: text surrounded by two equals signs, ==like this==, gets a highlighter effect. Turns out this is super easy to add to Neovim (and probably Vim too,...
I’ve bounced off jrnl a few times. While I like its simplicity, most of my past journaling is sitting in my Obsidian vault, and jrnl isn’t quite on Obsidian’s wavelength. It uses @tags instead of #tags, for example. Meanwhile, I’ve been wanting a nicer way to browse those old journal entries. Something better than...
Hello again from my Thinkpad. My secret Thinkpad. My wife doesn’t know I bought this Thinkpad. It hides in the visual noise of my office closet until I deploy it furtively when she’s not around. Someday she’ll discover it and inquire as to its presence in our home. The inquiry will take the rough shape of, “You...
Work has been really draining lately. It’s not the quantity of work so much, though there has been a lot of it, but more so it’s the nature of the work that’s the challenge. Trying to promote someone, and deciding not to promote others who strongly deserve it but who we just don’t have budget for. They’re going to...
And not just because Kev did. 😆 I was amused to see Kev’s post because I had the same experience and realization recently. It dawned on me as I was perusing some big list of links that it really is helpful to have a visual indicator of which ones I’ve already clicked.
I wrote my last post at a cafe on my laptop. As I was writing the post and testing the Spaces-switching shortcuts to try to justify my rant, I was thinking, you know, this isn’t that bad. Why have I been so bothered by it? Later, after posting, I saw this: Just wait until you notice that it’s inexplicably slower on...
A common feature in Linux window managers is the ability to have multiple “workspaces” or “virtual desktops” or whatever you want to call them. From the i3 docs: Workspaces are an easy way to group a set of windows. By default, you are on the first workspace, as the bar on the bottom left indicates. To switch to...
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