May 14, 2020
I’ve had a pretty easy going week at work this week, which led me to finish a lot of work projects in the next few weeks ahead of time in terms of a week off of vacation.
That being noted, I’ve also made strides to really see if I can attempt to tap into ZenDesk. I’ve come across a few barriers including the fact that I don’t have access to the ZenDesk API for work. However, I’m working around this by utilizing Selenium with Python 3 in an effort to convert a list of tickets and import them into an Org mode document so that I would automatically have a todo list of recently updated tickets.
This would help my workflow, and might help others in my situation in which the API access is limited to someone’s ZenDesk account. Also, I use Org-Mode quite a lot with TODO lists at work, so incorporating the current status of tickets into my workflow would be awesome. Even possibly having the ability to respond to tickets without even having to log into ZenDesk sounds awesome. I can probably achieve this with Selenium through either ZenDesk or my work email, so either of these two solutions will help me achieve my goal in that regards.
I have been learning more about the w3m browser, which is a super cool terminal based web browser. Using it with the w3m-img add-on is a must though as this allows you to display images while surfing the web in your terminal.
I also recommend using a terminal like urxvt or x-term which supports w3m-img.
More info. on w3m can be found here: http://w3m.sourceforge.net/
I’ve been playing quite a few ZX Spectrum games, and got X128, a DOS based pemulator for the ZX Spectrum to work just fine. However, I can’t seem to figure out why mapping keys is so hard for that emulator. I also installed the FUSE emulator through apt so we’ll see if that’s better in the long run.
Games I’m Debating To Play This Weekend:
| Game | Reason |
|---|---|
| Dragon Warrior 3 (Gameboy Color) | Awesome music, great art style, great gameplay. |
| Mount & Blade: Warband | Seems like a cool game to play |
| The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion | Wanted to start a new character and just do whatever I want in this game. Fun game for sure. |
Things I’m Debating Doing This Weekend:
| Thing To Do | Reason |
|---|---|
| Decide if I should install Tox, Jitsi, or Jami for video calls | Pretty awesome FOSS apps to use to call family. Beats spyware infested Skype or Zoom |
| Do some ink drawings with scans into my computer | Would like to get more into doing more litho style art |
| Learn more C | I find learning C to be fun, and the opportunities to modify Linux utilities are endless |
| Possibly working on a Dungeon Synth album | A lot of the songs I’ve been making have been themes, this genre seems to fit pretty well |
| Look into a decent image gallery for my art pics using a Bootstrap template | I’ll take a look around to see if there’s a better way to display my images |
| Possibly learn Aria2 for downloading files | Seems like a cool CLI utility |
| Possibly learn how to use Alpine Email client | Seems pretty straight forward for my purposes, looks easier than “mu” / “mu4e” |
| Possibly modify my AwesomeWM config | Wanted to explore other functions to tap into |
| Possibly modify my Tmux config | Wanted to see what else I haven’t tapped into yet since I want to use CLI only Gentoo |
| Possibly porting some projects from the Web Dev course | Wanted to see if I could run self-contained web apps on my site |
| Figure out how to utilize Youtube-dl to access YT without being on the site | Would rather just stream the content I want to watch than deal with ads |