I had the pleasure to collaborate with tony-btw on a Christmas stream, where we discussed all things free and open source, Nix, Guix, BSD, programming languages, screens, philosophy and more. You can follow Tony here. Merry Christmas to everyone! As always, God bless, and until next time. If you enjoyed this post,...

As I write this, there is a retired couple sitting in the coffee shop across from me reading books together. I can only hope to one day be doing the same! Reading together and conversing about those ideas is still possible. It is an act of depth of relationship to discuss our reading and deepest thoughts, perhaps...

When choosing a machine, you face the Trilemma Of Choice: The Computing Constraint Trilemma# Portability - weight, battery life, form factor Performance - CPU headroom, GPU capability, thermal sustained load Economy - initial cost, maintenance burden, replacement cycle You can pick two. Most people choose...

I recently took my old workstation out of storage, booted it and found it running Fedora 40 - so of course it was time to put NixOS on the machine and bring it into the fleet. I’ve probably been sleeping on the machine as a build/rendering server for my projects, and figured let’s do it. While the setup was farily...

I’ve built and released my first colorscheme: Compline, with its companion light theme Lauds. Compline: from the Latin “completorium” - completion. The final prayer of the Catholic Liturgical Hours, a time for deep contemplation, to be at peace with the darkness. Lauds: from the Latin “laudes” - to praise, to...

The other day on twitter, I saw the question posed: “What are your favourite drugs/escapes from reality?” After going down that path in my 20s and finding no reprieve, I would say to my friend that asked the question: the goal is not to escape reality, but to align with it - to push toward reality with all your...

Emacs has holistically become my daily computing environment. My efforts have been focused on building emacs into the workflow of essentially everything I do, as long as it doesn’t involve heavy video or media, I try my very best to accomplish it in emacs. The idea is to achieve deep integration with everything I do...

Table of Contents# For those of you with custom keyboards, the in-built laptop keyboard is and will always be a second class citizen. Even with kmonad, I still vastly prefer my chocofi 36 key (board) - very often sitting it on top of the thinkpad built-in keyboard to do my work. The only issue with this is that you...

I got the Supernote A6X2 Nomad almost a year ago, and have been using it off and on for that entire time, deciding if it has a place in my workflow. TLDR;# I thought it a great writing tablet - nicer than pen and paper in a lot of cases. The fact you have nearly infinite notes in one little package was a big plus...

I apologize for my absence in the blogging world as of late - as my last post showed, I have been going down the Nix/NixOS rabbit hole and working on some personal business projects that will be out in the coming months. There has been extensive learning, deep diving, and exciting revelation that I am all too stoked...

When you first start into the rabbit hole that is Linux, you see that there are hundreds if not thousands of distributions that you can pick to use. While this can be quite intimidating, there are only a select few that are the root of the tree that all others are derived from: Debian, Arch and (some would say)...

If you are new around here, you won’t notice the changes I have recently made to my site - but if you’ve visited here before, things will be looking quite different! I did a full rewrite of my blog using the Antfustyle Astro template, built in a shortform Notes section (that automatically gets posted to...