Been 7 months

Procrastinated for 7 (almost 8) months

But, am back writing today, also did a little update to the site, grabbed a domain through github students, played around with cloudflare a bit, used github actions, some tweaks here n there. good stuff

Thought I’d finally talk a bit about my setup~never done that before.

The setup

Arch Linux with Hyprland (yeah wayland life). I don’t rice for aesthetics but rather for functionality~with a side of "this doesn’t look like garbage."

Interestingly, I tried i3 for a hot minute and thought, "Huh, this actually looks... better, than what i have got?" So, naturally, i did the logical thing~stole its visual soul and put it into Hyprland. Most of my configs are just pulled from public anyway. that's just being efficient.

Tools:-

Hyprland: but not the animation heavy kind, no wobbly windows. though i keep a keybind to activate all animations and stuff, just in case :)

Kitty: its got everything i ever needed in a terminal. ghostty is bulky meanwhile.

Nushell: i deal with data a lot, so i can do something like: open data.csv | where year > 2020 | sort-by name

Zathura: PDF/E-book viewer, its the best, and got vim keybinds

Pandoc: document conversions are ofc a requirement

mpv/imv: mpv has yt-dlp support, so i watch videos from internet directly on it, cuz browsers are ugly and bulky

ffmpeg/imagemagick/sox: these are so good tools, ffmpeg especially is what i use most, images are edited usually in krita meanwhile. sox, well its there is enough.

Neovim: I dont really recommend it to everyone. its real power plays when you extend its functionality, creating your own environment n stuff. I actually wrote some plugins myself (for tasks that can be performed from the editor itself) i am indeed writing this blog post in neovim, which i created using a plugin i created for notes, journals, and recently added blogs thingy.

Aria2: yeah, i download a lot, like a lot really.

Newsboat: for RSS. using this since like 2 days now (on friend's recommendation) havent customized yet, so no idea, its TUI though, thats nice.

But why

well, just cuz i need a fully controlled environment, which is easy to make if i use these tools. These tools are my puppets, I pull the strings.

That’s it for now. Just wanted to break the silence. Might write again soon, or in another 7 months~we’ll see.