I recently got a Thinkpad T440 and decided to document the steps I took to set up archlinux. The last time I'd done this was on the Asus Zenbook UX330UA some years back. I thought the process would be different, but it was largely similar.
I first got the iso …
I'd started the Kindle-Highlights project without tests. This was a problem because I couldn't add features as fast as I wanted because I'd break something without knowing. I needed to add tests to speed up my development. For haskell, hspec is a tool/library for this. Setting this up on …
I use ultisnips for my snippets. To set this up, I have this in vimrc:
call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
Plug 'SirVer/ultisnips' | Plug 'honza/vim-snippets' " Snippet support
call plug#end()
let g:UltiSnipsExpandTrigger="<c-e>" " Default is <tab>
let g:UltiSnipsEditSplit="vertical"
let g:UltiSnipsSnippetDirectories=["UltiSnips", "mysnippets"]
This …
Kindle saves highlights, bookmarks and notes in a My Clippings.txt file. I needed a way to parse it and filter out the content I wanted. I also wanted to work on a parser in haskell, so this was a great opportunity to get my hands dirty.
I used stack …
While using i3, I've realized that a lot of screen real estate in firefox is taken up with the tab and navigation bar. This isn't a problem when its the only application open, but when some tiling has been done, these two bars quickly become a barrier to usage, for …
The timeit module provides an easy way to time python code. I use it to check if a new code implementation runs faster than an older implementation.
Example usage of this is:
import timeit
timeit.timeit('list(range(100))')
def greet():
print('Hello World')
timeit.timeit(greet, number=4)
Timeit …
I've worked with codebases that have made me frustrated. Some of the **features** I've seen include:
I use vimwiki to keep a track of my notes. This includes book summaries, linux commands, recipes and miscellanous content. It's an amazing vim plugin that provides easy access and navigation to the content. This however works well only within vim.
I occasionally need to access these notes outside vim …
I assembled my first PC this month. It took me a full Saturday for this, and I blame it on the case I got. I cheaped out on it, and ended up taking a lot of time setting things properly inside it. Here is the build. Some of the mistakes …
I bought the Huion 420 because I wanted to experiment with graphics tablet and drawing on linux. I chose this primarily because of its cost. Out of the box, the device worked on my archlinux setup, however it behaved more like a mouse, with pressure sensitivity not detected. I did …