I've been trying out Kupfer for a few days now. I heard about it from the guys at the Linuxbasix podcast. They gave an empassioned recommendation for this application launcher, but I couldn't make out what exactly what it was called or how it was spelled. If they gave the …

I've looked at a lot of music players on Linux over the years. I recently come to the conclusion that they're all crap.

People want different things from their music player, which are very personal to them ("why on earth would they not have an option to x?!?!?! Do these …

I use the Pomodoro Technique a lot when I'm at home. I find it really useful to not only make sure I get stuff done, but to make sure I take regular breaks and get other stuff done, like housework and exercise.

I used to use a 25 minute timer …

I bought a Zenithink C71 a few weeks ago. I've been using it a lot. Much more than I had expected to. I wanted it simply because it was cheap and wanted to play with it, and maybe install KDE Plasma Active on it (as this is the device they …

I haven't played around with bash so much before, but I'm learning by trying to automate things I do repeatedly. I found myself often starting a new Jekyll post with that magical filename format: YYYY-MM-DD-title.md. So I decided to try and get that done using an alias, which didn't …

So backing up is one thing, but there's always the fear of the unknown: how easy will it be to restore everything in the event of a catastrophe? I had a catastrophe last night, and had to get my feet wet.

I had been messing around with resizing partitions and …

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I'm sure I wasn't the only one feeling a bit tense about where Victoria and Beach House were going to go with the new album. Teen Dream was the kind of album that felt like a full stop. It was precursored by other tentative efforts, but …