The Universe of Joshua Blais
The Universe of Joshua Blais
Joshua Blais
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While most release their yearly review sometime in the period over Christmas - New Year’s, I figured I would be the weird one and post it the first week of January. I’ve always been the weird one. 2024 was a great year for me and my...
While most are waiting for today (Happy New Year) to come around to hit the gym, to start eating better, to start that business, or change their lives in one of the thousand stereotypical ways people start each new year, know that every...
“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.” Alexander Smith Christmas starts as a day in a child’s life that is magical, and as time carries on, one finds all the magic to be fabricated. Santa, the elves, the North Pole, wanting...
I recently was migrating to a fresh installation of Fedora 41, and in order to do so, moving over gpg and ssh keys, as well as my .password-store database was vital. I had a couple minutes of struggle in doing so, so I wrote this quick...
“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed...
I think I made a mistake, team! In my previous video and post I spoke about leaving emacs for the pastures of Neovim and a CLI/TUI-centric workflow. I made the jump earlier this year, creating a zen system that I thought would allow me...
I know that I am going to generate hate for this one, but I have left my Hyprland tiling window manager for the pastures of Gnome. I’ll give you a few moments for everyone to post their hate comments below. Alright, now that that is done...
Switching between the mouse and keyboard is a fool’s game - one that takes 100% productivity and slowly erodes it away, percentage point by percentage point until we are taking valuable brain power and energy to swap between the two....
Not that long ago, I was terrible at taking notes. It felt like I had so many ideas, yet I never was able to hold onto them. As soon as they came, they would fly away from my grasp just as quickly. That changed when I started making...
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...