Review of Apple Pencil for Note Taking
I recently purchased the Apple Pencil. There is a more recent “2nd Generation” Apple Pencil, but the iPad I have is old enough that it doesn’t support that “2nd Generation”. Overall, it’s been a useful thing to have, I like using it, but it’s also probably not worth the cost. I have found it useful. Before having an Apple Pencil, [...]
Disco Elysium
One Beautiful Moment from the Game I’d only really call something a “spoiler” if it ruins enjoyment from watching the story. e.g. The classic show “Columbo” is re-watchable, and we always know that Columbo will bumble around and annoy the villian in all sorts of homely ways, and ask “just one more thing”.. but it ruins the suspense if you [...]
Post Factorio Playthrough Ramble
Okay, so maybe Factorio is “hyper-engaging”. After playing through the game a bit on the Nintendo Switch, I decided that I’d go back and play the game in order to complete a few more of the game’s achievements. So I went to load my savegame from when I’d completed a game on peaceful, only to discover that this savegame was [...]
Factorio on the Switch Still Scratches the Itch
Factorio is a game which is widely regarded as addictingly fun to play. The ostensible goal of the game is to assemble & launch a rocket ship. The start of the game is reasonably familiar: you control a character, mine some ores from resource deposits, and then use these resources to assemble tools or whatever item you need. (e.g. you’ll [...]
The CapsLock Key was not the Problem
It’s fashionable among developers to give a tip about the CapsLock key: you can switch out its functionality, replacing it with the Escape key. When I did this, in order to then type out something like SEQUENCE_OF_UPPERCASE_WORDS, I’d hold down the shift key using my left pinky finger, and type out the letters as necessary.
– And if you [...]
The just Command Runner is an Neat Tool
I came across the tool just. It’s a tool for running commands/scripts. My initial impression was “that’s it?”. I might describe it slightly differently, compared to other common workflows: It’s common to see make used with a bunch of .PHONY: targets. The point of a make is to describe how some target is built. But since people will often want [...]
Using NixOS Specialisations to Try Out Different Desktop Environments
Recently, Tweag’s blog featured a post on NixOS specialisations. It allows for having an additional boot entry in grub which loads a slightly different configuration. – This makes it very convenient to try slightly different NixOS configurations. As the blogpost above shows, this can be used for different desktop environments. I ran into some problems with conflicting attributes, and wasn’t [...]
Git Worktrees a Neat Command for Working with Multiple Versions of a Repo
git-worktree has apparently been in git for some time, but I’ve only recently learned of it. It lets you conveniently check out multiple versions of a repository at once. Which may sound only marginally useful; but I find the benefit to be better than it sounds. (e.g. Without the worktree command, perhaps the easiest way to imitate it would be [...]
Signal Boost drduh's Yubikey Guide
https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide I recently set up my Yubikeys so that I could use the key to hold the private keys I use with git. I spent a bunch of time reading through various guides discussing how to set up a master key with an offline backup, and how to put this on a GPG smartcard. Drduh’s guide above is the best [...]
Travel Setup Using a Fancy Keyboard with a Laptop
One of the downsides to using a fancy keyboard is that it’s difficult to use when out and about with a laptop. This is arguably mitigated by that laptops themselves have a keyboard. I like my small, fancy keyboard much more than the laptop keyboard, though. (My thumbs get access to 2-3 keys each on my fancy keyboard, etc.). Here’s [...]