The Universe of Joshua Blais
The Universe of Joshua Blais
Joshua Blais
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I had the privilege to visit the Cathedral de Santa Maria del Fiore on our recent trip to Italy. It has become perhaps my favorite building I have ever stepped foot in, and in seeing the symbolism, the story that is being told, it takes...
In my early twenties, I thought that stoicism was the “ultimate philosophy”. To be a rock unmoved in the storm of life? Sign me up! Admittedly, it was stoic ideology that got me through some tremendously difficult times in my life -...
Keybinds Reference for the Zen Computing System# I use Gocheat as my built in cheatsheet for all key bindings and update it frequently if there is anything I have missed and/or forget here Hyprland# HotkeyFunctionAlt + TToggle...
For the past two months, we have been sleeping on the floor on a Japanese futon. While it started out a bit rocky, I don’t see us ever going back to a traditional bed. Why# I don’t believe that human beings are meant to sleep on cloud...
After about half a decade of daily driving Linux, I have come to understand why the command line is simply better. When I first started down the rabbit hole, I thought that the cli was kind of “hipsterish” and what “the cool kids” were...
Recently, the founder of Telegram was detained in France and charged with complacency with regard to the various shady activities that go on on the platform. And, while we forgo talking about people on this blog, we will talk about the...
Although I don’t use social media, there are still many distractions to be had on the internet (oh the understatement!) So, during days of work, I choose to block them all with a custom script and the good ol’ /etc/hosts file. Between...
Update: I am back to using emacs, you can read why here At the beginning of this year, I aimed to simplify many of my processes so that I could focus on the things that I actually wanted to do with a computer - namely build things...
It is no secret that I detest the smartphone culture in which we live, and I look forward to the day that I can ditch mine in the river. However, that might be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I think that if we keep ourselves...
I Have been seeing various posts about the ‘GOTH’ stack for development - Go Tailwind & Templ and HTMX (with Postgres in many cases as the database). Hilariously, for about the last year, this is precisely the stack that I’ve been using...
The only skill that is really needed in life is the ability to learn. Having the confidence that no matter what it is, you can put the time in and learn how to do whatever it is, know about any subject, work any job, or create anything....
Taking my workstation along with me has never been easier and I am blessed to have the ability to use a perfectly ergonomic setup wherever I may be on Earth. This has taken much trial and error, but I feel as if I have come to an...
Laziness takes a back seat when you start to see the work that you are called to do as your vocation, your calling, and your way of praising The Almighty. For much of my adult life, I took no solace in the work that I was doing, no pride...
My system of getting things done has slowly evolved over the years to end up on the way that I now do things. I last wrote about this over three years ago, and while some of the principles are fairly the same, there have been updates in...
If you do something once, you should be able to very easily do it again. The single thing that has greatly increased my ability to problem solve and move forward in projects is documentation. When I am working, I bounce between the code...