The Universe of Joshua Blais
The Universe of Joshua Blais
Joshua Blais
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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...
If you are in the tech space, or even just someone that has turned on the television (I hope not!) in the past few days, you will have seen nearly a trillion dollars of paper value wiped off the market in a day because China came out...
As we start the new year, it is always interesting to see what people are using on the devices to get things done. On my Galaxy S24, I have a selection of apps that I use daily that help me with productivity, in remembering things, and...
OBS is a great streaming software, the only issue is that you cannot send hotkeys to it when on wayland as it would be “insecure” - I get the mentality, if you allowed hotkey acess to a window not in focus, it could very well be...
I convinced Claude that God exists, that Catholicism is the one True Church, and that the linchpin of the resurrection is that which all history hinges on. The full transcript is below, Claude’s responses are in Code blocks Initial...
For the last six months or so, I have been using Hugo as my blogging platform of choice, switching over from a heavy NextJS site to one that is far more lightweight and focused on static files. What I did not know is that Hugo plays very...
2024 was a solid year for me and my family, and I look to build upon the progress and education I acquired in the year as we move into the new year. The theme of 2025 is outreach, execution, and output. I generally make goals based on...