The Universe of Joshua Blais
The Universe of Joshua Blais
Joshua Blais
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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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...