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Benjamin Slade
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2022
06/28
(Updated on 2022/07/10)
Linux Terminal Emulator Features and Hardware Compatibility
terminals
06/26
Towards a history of Quake-style drop-down terminals
terminals
06/18
Dealing with possessed TrackPoints on later model ThinkPads
thinkpad
linux
guix
06/08
(Updated on 2022/06/26)
Equake: A Geas on Gnomish Smiths
emacs
equake
elisp
eshell
2021
10/27
Free keybinding with Tridactyl in Firefox, and in-Emacs editing
browsers
emacs
web
08/10
Automatically adding information to Org-roam file properties
emacs
org
orgroam
08/09
(Updated on 2021/08/10)
Org-roam on Android
emacs
org
orgroam
android
05/27
Dynamically set pdf-tools annotation colours
emacs
2020
05/30
Twiddler config for Emacs
emacs
twiddler
04/25
(Updated on 2020/04/26)
Group-agnostic previous-focussed-window memory in StumpWM
lisp
stumpwm
commonlisp
2019
08/04
(Updated on 2020/06/22)
Beautiful and Free Unicode Typefaces, for editor and printer (including a comparison of Latin Modern and Computer Modern Unicode)
typography
iosevka
computermodern
emacs
latex
17th-century
knuth
07/30
(Updated on 2019/08/03)
Top 50 IF list 2019
intfic
emacs
zork
07/29
Running pdfpc in StumpWM
lisp
stumpwm
pdfpc
pdf
presentation
beamer
07/24
Guix, Nix: You are in a maze of twisty little $PATHs, some undefined
lisp
guix
linux
stumpwm
intfic
fonts
inform
nix
gargoyle
06/17
Semi-automated installation of Void Linux on pure ZFS with full LUKS disk encryption
zfs
linux
automation
encryption
luks
05/29
(Updated on 2020/04/27)
Auto-generate “creator” PDF metadata in AUCTeX using yasnippet
emacs
latex
auctex
yasnippet
05/27
youtube-dl bash shell function: prefer mp4, and timestamp with download time
shell
bash
youtubedl
05/22
(Updated on 2022/06/19)
Equake(!) Quake-style overlay console in StumpWM
lisp
stumpwm
equake
emacs
eshell
01/03
(Updated on 2022/06/19)
Equake: A drop-down console written in Emacs Lisp
emacs
equake
elisp
eshell
2018
10/20
(Updated on 2022/06/20)
Browsing the Web with Common Lisp
lisp
commonlisp
nextbrowser
browsers
web
09/23
(Updated on 2019/07/30)
Confusion: PDP-10 Zork
lisp
mdl
intfict
guix
zork
09/18
Quake-style drop-down terminal in StumpWM
lisp
stumpwm
09/15
Dockerised Firefox on GuixSD
lisp
guix
docker
firefox
08/26
Grab word etymologies in Emacs
emacs
elisp
etymology
08/18
(Updated on 2018/09/18)
Managing emacsclient windows in StumpWM
lisp
stumpwm
emacs
08/04
(Updated on 2020/04/27)
Guix: You are in a maze of lispy little passages, (map equal? ′(′all ′alike) ′(′all ′alike))
lisp
guix
linux
stumpwm
emacs
06/07
New blog using Emacs, Org mode & Hugo
emacs
org
hugo
go