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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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I haven’t been posting much lately, but not for lack of trying. I’ve put many hours into various drafts over the past few weeks, and it’s making me realize that I should stick to shorter-form posts if I want to get these things published. If a post takes me longer than an hour end to end, it’s going to land in the...
I set my terminal’s font to Iosevka this morning after skimming this thread on HN. My old terminal font — JetBrains Mono, Ghostty’s default — was good. Now it’s Iosevka. I tried Iosevka before but didn’t bond with it, and now I’m trying it again. I tried some new color schemes recently. Everforest, Catppuccin. My...
One thing I love about the i3 window manager is what’s called the scratchpad. The scratchpad lets me toggle the visibility of a floating window with a hotkey. It’s great for keeping notes or a terminal at the ready, available in any workspace. It turns out that it’s easy to add a similar feature to tmux. Here’s my...
There’s a thing I love about my ThinkPad, beyond Linux or the keyboard or anything like that: it’s a fun computer. That is, I use it only for fun stuff. When I open it and am greeted with the blank i3 lock screen, I know that I’m embarking on a computing session that solely for my enjoyment rather than to grind...
Life’s been stressful lately, and I’m feeling the wear and tear. So I’m going to write about something easy and peaceful and fun: I’ve been thoroughly happy with pico.sh pages since moving my blog a couple months ago. One thing I dislike about deploying with Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, and the like is having to spin...
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...
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