Bing wallpapers on Linux
I would like to share my small script, which allows me to pull daily new wallpaper and lock screen image from the Bing service. This functionality exists in the Windows 10 and I wanted to have similar thing on Linux.
Phylosophy, Technology
Semantics of "innovation"
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”. © Peter Drucker.
In this post I am analyzing why traditional telecommunication industry still has issues with innovation in the current cloud solutions era.
And why even when telecommunication operators are trying to hire engineers, developers with innovative thinking and cloud experience, they still fail to deliver innovations continuously.
Random wallpapers for Nitrogen (Linux)
Here I am sharing my script which randomly selects picture file from the defined folder and applies this file as a wallpaper. This script is written for one of the most popular programs of this kind in Linux - nitrogen.
When I decided to make this script, I wanted it to do the following:
- Randomly select file as a wallpaper.
- Has minimum writing operations on the disk.
Here is what I came with.
All you need is text. Plain text (almost).
As many of us, I built my first documents writing and presentation (slides) creation skills with the Microsoft Office. And as for many of us for me “document” meant something, written in the WYSIWYG1 type of editor: Microsoft Office Word, LibreOffice Writer, StarOffice, etc.
And as many of us I was doing the same logical mistake: in my mind both format for text storage and format for text presentation were the same.
But in the last few years I have been changing my view on the documents creation, text writing and text presentation. It all merged into one principal:
Text information must be stored in the plain text files. Or as close to plain text as possible.
Two tips for using Hugo Pages
Here I will give few tips about Hugo pages about use of slugs and shortcodes. Writing content for the “Hugo” is quite easy - all is Markdown. There are couple things I would like to point out for the new users of the Hugo.
- Slug
- Shortcodes
Bye Windows, and thanks for the WSL!
I am sorry. I did not post anything new for a quite long time. I was on vacation and last weeks I was busy with movement to Linux completely.
Back to WSLTTY
I really like Alacritty terminal emulator for its speed, simple configuration and how accurately it shows fonts. But there is bit flaw which finally stimulated me go back to wsltty - support of Unicode.
Use Your Own Git Server
Why I use my own Git server and why you also could do the same? Some might think this post is relevant to only technical people, or to people who do programming, to software developers. But I think it might be of interest for everyone who wants to control its own text data.
WSL2 Impressions and Issues
My Windows PC received upgrade, which finally officially enabled WSL2. I don’t want re-post everything what is already written about WSL2. But main changes are that now WSL2 works from the Hyper-V layer and its main benefit is the speed of work.
Honestly saying, issues I met with are already covered on Microsoft documentation web-site. But I did not read it before migration and therefore I had to solve them later.
Using digraphs in VIM
Many of us want to write not just text, but text which is graphically pleasant. When we use WYSIWYG type of writing software (or word processors) like Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, we have to look for special symbols in the special tables and insert symbols with the mouse, or we have to learn how to insert those symbols via Unicode codes.
VIM allows you insert most of the such symbols (in VIM they are called «digraphs») using key bindings which are easy to remember.