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Managing tasks, time, and making sure one takes a break: Integrating Taskwarrior, Timewarrior, and Gnome Pomodoro
As the amount of work increases, it becomes ever so more important to manage time and work in an efficient way. So, there's Taskwarrior for managing tasks, Timewarrior for tracking them, and Gnome Pomodoro for making sure one takes regular breaks and doesn't let the long hours affect their health in a bad way.
Transitioning to Neomutt and friends for e-mail
I finally took some time out to set up neomutt and related tools that let me access my e-mail in a terminal. This post documents how I went about it.
Fedora Classroom: Git 101: report
I taught a Fedora Classroom session the other day - Git 101 - where I walked through the basics of Git. This is a quick summary of the session.
Writing LaTeX well in Vim
Setting up an IRC bouncer (ZNC) on Amazon AWS and connecting to it using Irssi
I finally found the time to set up an IRC bouncer to keep myself permanently connected to IRC networks. This post documents how I went about it using Amazon AWS, ZNC, and Irssi.
Fedora Classroom: Command Line 101: report
I taught a Fedora classroom session today - "Command Line 101" - where I introduced the command line and demonstrated how useful the command line is. This is a quick summary of the session.
Bringing together Gitter, IRC, and Slack channels in one place on Riot
Different teams use different platforms to communicate within themselves. When teams on different communication platforms want to collaborate, though - there's a bit of an issue. In this post, I document how one can setup channels on various platforms (Slack, IRC, Gitter) and bring them all together on Riot.
A channel for neuroscientists on Gitter
I've come across a few mailing lists for neuroscientists, but I couldn't find a chat channel. While mailing lists suit certain purposes, open source communities tend to use a combination of mailing lists and chat channels - each platform serves different purposes. TLDR: here's a new chat channel on Gitter here for everything neuroscience related. It is also accessible using the IRC and Riot.
Giving Qutebrowser a go - a fantastic keyboard-focused browser
After years of using the excellent Firefox, I've decided to tweak my workflow a little more by giving Qutebrowser a go. Qutebrowser is a brilliant keyboard-focused browser. In this post, I document my first day with Qutebrowser, and I also include some tips and tricks that others may find helpful.