The Universe of Joshua Blais
The Universe of Joshua Blais
Joshua Blais
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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,...
Linkarzu had TJ DeVries, DistroTube, Gregory Anders and myself on a livestream to discuss Emacs Vs. Neovim on Friday night and it was a fantastic time. Teej and Greg are both core maintainers of Neovim, so it was interesting to see how...
I recently took it upon myself to migrate dozens of email accounts off of a legacy server I was paying way too much for, and move over everything to MXRoute. $30 USD/year is a pretty good deal for unlimited mailboxes and ~400 sends per...
Due to my use of ad blockers and PiHole I did not know that Disqus injects ads into your site if you use their comment section. Looking on my phone the other day, I was horrified to see TWELVE ADS on my articles, all of which are utter...
For some time, I have gone down the Tea rabbit hole, to come out on the other end with a Gaiwan for Gongfu brewing, a Matcha set, I started importing tea from abroad, and have found that tea is now my drink of choice in the afternoons....
One question I have had in my mind that I have been seeking the answer to for some time is this: “How Does one reconcile with the immediate nature of life (we could be gone a moment from now), with the need to work toward a tomorrow that...
For the past few years, I have self hosted services that permitted me to leave behind all subscriptions. I have built out a system using off the shelf solutions for this which follows: Why self host?# The thing that one should start any...
Recently, some influencer was banned from TikTok for some sort of prank video. I refuse to look it up, it just crossed my RSS feed and it sparked the idea behind this article. Many such cases. The thing about social platforms is that you...
The Adam Freeland Song “We Want Your Soul” was released in 2003, and while the world was going through a transitory period, we are realizing the entirety of the soul sucking nature of modernity today. This version of the music video...
“A man who dares to waste an hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”— Charles Darwin I would say that the greatest issue in my life is that I don’t know where my time is going. Some days, I look up at the clock, and wonder...
On mac, the Command Space~ shortcut is one that can be unbelieveably powerful - not only do you have the native Spotlight app, you can rebind the key to something even more powerful, namely Alfred or in recent years, Raycast. I...
One thing that has greatly improved my digital quality of life is being able to capture anything from anywhere on my system. Bind a hotkey in your WM or DE for this command: emacsclient -n -e '(progn (select-frame-set-input-focus...
“God, the Universe, whatever name you might call God by.” In our culture, it has become “hip” to call God “the Universe” - you will see it time and again when people claim the Universe is “aligning with them” (specifically when something...
As everyone in this generation, I have struggled with phone addiction and wasting time in apps for much of my teenage/adult life. I have setup my phone to strictly allow for only that which is productive and allow focused work. We can so...
One of the greatest investments in the last half decade I made was the purchase of a Kobo e-reader. The ability to take your library anywhere with you, the e-ink display that doesn’t give you eye strain, the freedom to actually own your...