Suckless Terminal

I want pretty colors and fonts in neovim suckless simple terminal st provides true color support out of the box and with argbbg patch to support transparent backgrounds through compton and scrollback it makes a fine replacement for rxvt-unicode (while there is a patch, it seems 256 colors out of the box may remain standard). Clone and Patch Clone mkdir suckless && cd suckless git clone http://git.suckless.org/st cd st Apply argbbg patch Continue reading

The Nelson County Fortune's Cove Hum

How It Starts “Do you hear that? That noise… Kind of like a diesel truck running off in the distance… Maybe the neighbors are mowing with their tractor?” “Wait be quiet. Hrmm. No… Wait, you mean the fridge that just came on?” “No… That’s strange you can’t hear it. I’ll google to see if there is a factory nearby or something. Huh, apparently its all over the world and known as ‘The Hum’. Continue reading

10 Nim One Liners to Impress Your Friends

My friend sent me the 10 Swift One Liners (referenced at the bottom) which inspired me to try it out in Nim! Like many Electrical Engineers, I cut my programming teeth on “low level” languages like standard ANSI C w/ GCC compiler, x86 assembly, Motorola HC11/HC12 assembly, and even a little GW/QBASIC! But fast forward a few years and projects start requiring GUIs, communication involving marshalling data into a specified format and HTTP requests, and project teams consisting of more than one person touching the code base. Continue reading