May 20, 2021

Keeping track of my packages
As I previously mentioned in the "Moving to Wayland" post, I recently moved to a new computer. Moving can be very annoying if you use a heavily configured system and don't have all the configurations easily available to just move over. Since I do regular backups of my files, which …

Oct 20, 2020

Bulk file editing with ranger
My file manager of choice is ranger. It's terminal-based, provides keybind mapping for everything making me more efficient in navigating my files, and it's incredibly extensible by enabling the creation of custom commands in python. If that wasn't enough, it also has a ton of other great features (extensible file …

Sep 20, 2020

Playlist generation with MPD
Music is life. I really love listening to music, although not the same kind of music all the time. Most of the time though, anything goes: I like to listen to any of the songs I have at random. But when I'm doing something that needs concentrating (like writing this …

Aug 24, 2020

Automatic context detection for Taskwarrior
One of the main ideas of GTD is to have a context associated with each task, so that it is very easy to see which tasks can be done in your current context. I organize my tasks with Taskwarrior, so to make it work with contexts, when adding a new …