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Email Productivity Tip: Sending without Checking

Email Productivity Tip: Sending without Checking

Checking email can be a big distraction when I just want to send an email and move on. If I have new unread e-mails, I may not want to know about them until after I've finished focusing on sending out a new message. Thankfully, a number of email

Fuzzel, app launcher and fuzzy finder has feature-packed 1.11 release

Fuzzel, app launcher and fuzzy finder has feature-packed 1.11 release

Fuzzel is a Wayland-native app launcher and fuzzy finder for Linux, inspired by Rofi and dmenu. The five-year-old Fuzzel project recently had a feature-packed 1.11 release. Here's a visual rundown of what's new. Instant filtering of huge lists 0:00 /0:08 1× Fuzzel was

Rofi alternatives for Wayland: app launcher, window switcher and picker for Linux

Rofi alternatives for Wayland: app launcher, window switcher and picker for Linux

Rofi is a popular window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement for Linux. dmenu was a tiny text-only utility to display a list of binaries or lines of text and select one. The dmenu design follows the Unix philosophy to "do one thing well". Simple! Rofi took the

cocot46plus keyboard with MT3 keycaps

cocot46plus: A Corne-like unibody keyboard with trackball and encoder

My split, ergonomic Corne keyboard is great. I love pairing with a trackball in-between the halves: But what if you took the two halves of this split keyboard, jammed them together with a built-in trackball and threw in some extra features? That's the cocot46plus. I prefer the ergonomics

What's new in Fuzzel 1.10

What's new in Fuzzel 1.10

Fuzzel is a rofi alternative for Wayland. It's a versatile picker and launcher utility for desktop Linux. The last time I gave an update on Fuzzel was when 1.8 released which compared it to some altenatives. Let's look at some recent feature additions since then.

Tips for organizing Sway keybindings

Tips for organizing Sway keybindings

Here's how I set up my keybindings for the Sway window manager for Linux. Most of the tips here would apply to any keyboard, but let's get one detail out of the way first that's specific to 40% keyboards like the Corne. It doesn&

How not to have a 45-hour outage like GigabitNow

How not to have a 45-hour outage like GigabitNow

My home internet was recently restored after a 45-hour outage of my GigabitNow service in Bloomington, Indiana. This is the worst internet service provider outage I've experienced in 30 years. The outage apparently affected only my account. Part of my job is maximizing uptime for internet services, so