Journal

This move consumed most of my time aside of work, so I am glad it is finally done! Looking forward to making this new place our own and spending some time outside. The weather sure looks helpful.

Automatic Espanso Restart When Connecting a Keyboard

I added a bash script and a udev rule to restart Espanso.

Open Obsidian Notes from the Terminal

A simple bash script to open Obsidian notes directly from the terminal, including fuzzy search and automatic daily note creation.

On the mac I’ve been using the great PDF Expert for almost anything related to PDFs.

On Ubuntu I’ve been looking for simple ways to do pretty much anything in the terminal.

Latest example: combining PDFs. Which turns out to be a very straightforward process using PDF Toolkit:

pdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf cat output combined.pdf

Another Year Of Daily Posting

A Celebration Is In Order.

The longest three streaks on my photo blog are now 366, 365, and 364 days.

Screenshot of my photo blog's stats page, showing three streaks lasting 366, 365, and 364 days respectively

Text Expansion With Espanso on Ubuntu

I finally got a proper text expander running on Ubuntu using Espanso, including importing my Alfred snippets from macOS.

Customizing Text Selection Shortcuts in Ubuntu

I am getting quite comfortable with Ubuntu these days. One thing I can’t seem to shake, though, is keyboard shortcuts to select text.

Open WP Admin From The Command Line

A quick and easy way to open WP Admin from the command line using WP-CLI.

Joan Westenberg makes a great case for why you should run your own blog:

We’re not going to get a better internet by waiting for platforms to become less extractive. We build it by building it. By maintaining our own spaces, linking to each other, creating the interconnected web of independent sites that the blogosphere once was and could be again.

(via Pedro)