I'd like to regain control of my browsing bookmarks with a simpler solution
using `dmenu`, `i3`, and a text file.
TODO: drop support for Chrome bookmarks by porting all remaining bookmarks to
bookmarks.txt
NOTE: maybe change bookmarks.txt to bookmarks.json to support nesting. Could be
simply with `jq`.
Useful since helpful aliases and functions around creating sandboxed REPL
environments for languages like, Elixir, Haskell are on the way. Other languages
that might be interesting to support would be Clojure.
The `jshell` alias currently imports libs like guava and jOOL into the `jshell`,
which is nice for experimenting.
Experimenting with keeping some helpful `.jars` in `~/programming/jars`. This
may be a bad idea, and there may exist a more idiomatic way to do this instead
of wrapping `jshell` in an alias, but for now, I need to move on.
Also documents some abbreviations for applications. `jv` will be necessary so
that I don't conflict with `j` or `js` for javascript. Eventually I'll need to
be more organized to avoid naming collisions, but this is okay for now.
This allows me to take advantage of the --app=<URL> flag that google-chrome
supports, which is nice for a version of cider that bleeds all the way to the
window's edges. It makes Cider feel more like a native application experience.
This comes with the default configuration on i3. I removed this KBD originally
because I was hoping to use the $mod+{,Shift+}t KBDs frequently. I still do, but
as I get more comfortable with i3, splits, parent containers, etc. I may prefer
to create terminals this way. We'll see...
NOTE: consider migrating from GH private repo to Google's Git on Borg. This is
preferable since GH gets hacked and private repos can be exposed. While a path
to a Google 3 repo like SpeWall may not pose a large security risk, it certainly
isn't optimal. Imagine a path to a repository whose name leaked a secret
project. Two options:
1. embrace encryption options like Mozilla's `sops` and remain on GH private
2. switch wholesale from private GH to GoB
3. classify "sensitve" parts of dotfiles as such and move those to GoB and keep
everything else on private GH
One added perk of switching to GoB is saving the $7 monthly fee to support
private GH repos.
The nohup.out file was creating a bunch of noise and polluting my FS. It may
have been the correct thing to add, but if it was, I'm unsure why. Removing it
for now since it's been bothering me quite a bit.
Wraps the existing `prodaccess` executable and displays a quote from Google
ENG's fortune db.
Fortune is a GNU tool intended to support random quote compilation, display,
etc. It's pretty interesting.
NOTE: the `prodcertstatus` executable that this function is using as a guard
looks like it might be useful moving forward.
We already have `gcan`... looks like `gca` was already defined by some ZSH git
extension. This further weakens my dependency on that extension, which I think
is a good things.
May need to find a better KBD for `snip_it`, since I really enjoy Tmux's M-s to
switch sessions.
Learned about i3's "edge" concept. Re-supported KBDs for settings split
directions. Also adjusted theme colors.
Also adjusts the formatting of the timezone information to show GMT as LON, EST
as NYC, and Pacific as MTV.
I originally dropped support for these because I wanted to imitate OSX's
screenshot KBDs, which were mod+Shift+{3,4}. I'm not sure I want to imitate OSX
now that I don't have any Apple hardware besides my iPhone. I'm getting more
forgetting those KBDs. At the moment, however, I cannot find a better KBD for my
snip_it function. Stay tuned...
I must not have tested this before adding it to the repository; otherwise, I
would have found this. Oh well... it worked like a charm when copying the GPG
information from my desktop to my laptop.
I used `light` on my MBP running NixOS. I got `xbacklight` working on my Dell
Precision running gLinux. It wasn't easy, and I still don't fully understand the
integration story. Thankfully I'm not alone and the documentation from the Arch
Linux came to rescue (per usual).
In my quest to learn more about terminals, I added a function to output ten
emojis. Technically this tests the same thing as test_unicode.
Unfortunately I couldn't get `st` to output any colored emojis. This is a bit of
a buzzkill for my grand plans to create a terminal-based chat client that
supports emojis.
Defines functions for creating, deleting, renaming files.
Defines functions for encrypting/decrypting files.
Defines functions for archiving/unarchiving files.
Adds TODOs for wishlist items.
Adds `help` function to view `lf` documentation.
TODO: write generic explanation of desire to share KBDs between Emacs, Vim,
other programs that I can link to in documentation to avoid repeating myself.
I'm unsure if this is idiomatic POSIX shell scripting or not, but I generally
prefer function calls to variables. Thankfully things like Haskell don't
differentiate between the two. In other cold and hostile environments like shell
scripting, us programmers must take care to prefer functions to variables where
it makes sense.
If you're going to install things and support that with an aliases, might as
well support the removals of packages with an aliases. Better to keep systems
lean -- especially if entropy is the tendancy.
Separated i3/configuration since some of my devices support XFree86 keysyms
while others do not. This introduced some cascading changes.
- Removed ~/.config/i3/config from this repo. Since I will be switching between
devices semi-regularly and that file will be generated each time I switch to a
different device running an X session, I don't want the i3/config to spam my
`gst` and `gd` when I haven't changed configuration in either config.shared or
config.device.
- Update aliases, variables, etc. to point to config.shared instead of the
generated file.
- Ensure that X sessions generate the i3/config file.
- Ensure that i3 reload and restart command generate the i3/config file.
This seems to resemble Atom's One Dark theme that I'm using in Vim, Emacs,
wallpaper already. Would be nice to keep everything consistent. I should update
the i3 Status Bar and Chrome to support One Dark themes as well.
This change affects:
- alias e
- i3 KBDs
- .xsessionrc
It will be interesting to see how this works over SSH. In theory, the
ALTERNATE_EDITOR variable should kick in and `vim` should be used. Time will
tell if this is the preferred setup. Until then...
See the comment for an explanation about this revision.
- we want to support to GUI
- it's difficult to reuse GUI windows elegantly unless the server is started
from the GUI itself
- consider starting the emacs GUI when X initializes
