The Universe of Joshua Blais
The Universe of Joshua Blais
Joshua Blais
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Since I started using the Zen Browser, I have been more inclined to bookmark the pages that I visit and organize them in a logical way that allows me to revisit them whenever I need to. For some time, I saved my bookmarks in plain text...
Earlier this week, there was a post by Bozhidar Batsov that sparked a lively conversation on Reddit about the same topic. I figured I would throw my hat in the ring and talk about why it may, or may not matter at all. It all depends how...
The thing that has always mattered in this life was the depth to which we were willing to go. With the advent of LLMs and “AI” (don’t get me started), the one thing that will continue to differentiate human beings will be the depth to...
I have pretty well integrated emacs into everything I do on a computer. Using GNOME as my underlying “bootloader” for doom emacs, I have setup various hotkeys to make my experience seamless and easily accessible from anywhere on the...
Some consider this to be an impossible feat, and until lately, I too, thought I was doomed to out of sync calendaring between my mobile calendar with notifications (Google calendar) and my always on screen calendar in org-agenda. Well -...
Hands down the easiest way to manage your configuration files in a unix environment is via GNU Stow. For some time I hesitated to set this up as I didn’t “get it”, but now that it is working, I would never go back to manually handling...
I used to laugh at the meme that emacs could be used for everything, and thought it crazy that one would “live in emacs” (that is a post from almost two years ago where I didn’t even really believe it myself). But, alas, if one allows...
One of my gripes with internet creators is their speed with which they denounce the previous work they completed. I have seen so many people uproot everything they had previously created, so as not to associate with that “previous...
I have, for some time, been wanting to litreately (is that a word?) organize my Doom emacs configuration, as the config.el file is an utter mess of over 1,000 lines. I went back, organized, categorized, and updated things so that they...
Using the standard Unix password manager is helpful to creating a git version controlled password database. The issue with mobile is that I have had not great success in porting my database over to any phone. Frontends seem to just hate...
When you visit a site, you should use the webarchive’s tooling to save a snapshot of the page incase for whatever reason, the page goes down in the future. For example, the other day, I was working on the configuration of my emacs...
The thing that really became the killer app for me in emacs (and for many people I have come across) is org mode. It was the reason that I could not leave the emacs world completely, and what drove me back to using it full time. For...
If you have been sitting under a rock, there is a new browser in town that all the cool kids are switching to, the Zen Browser. Built as a fork of Firefox, Zen promised to add security, privacy, and “Zen” (let’s see about that) to your...
There have been various times that I have detoxxed myself from the social media demon that plagues our society. While I think that it would be best that social media had never been invented, the cat is out of the bag. What we can do as...
I have arguably gone about 85% of the way down the custom, ergonomic, split, alternate keyboard layout rabbit hole with my chocofi 36 key, Colemak DH board. The only further I could go would be to 3D print my own keycaps, and then to...