May 24, 2020

I’m in the process of relaxing for a bit as I have the week off due to the buildup of one comp day, and I’m piggybacking off Memorial Day weekend.

As such, I have had a bit of time to really adjust my aliases for my .bashrc to allow to for quick two letter commands to open up programs easily in two seconds in Bash terminal, which is pretty cool.

Latest changes to my .bashrc file can be found here: https://github.com/SBanya/dotfiles/blob/master/bash/.bashrc

I also am in the process of swapping out internet browsers to check out IceCat, and then maybe just settle for Qutebrowser instead as well.

As such, I created a parser Python 3 based script that basically takes the “bookmarks.html” file that you can export from Mozilla Firefox and just rips out the “href” attribute into a resulting “links.txt” file so that you can import it into other browsers like “Qutebrowser” or utilities such as “DMenu”.

This project can be found here on my GitHub page: https://github.com/SBanya/MozillaFirefoxBookmarkParser

On the topic of GitHub, I’ve realized that I can simply host a public facing .git instance, so I might actually just move all my projects to this website’s public_html folder, and just nuke my entire GitHub profile as well since I’m more of a hobbyist anyway and could care less for proprietary Git vendors like Microsoft.

GitLab is tempting, but it looks like you’d still have to pay to have a free public hosting repository, so I’d rather just host it on my own site anyway.

On the topic of trying out new Linux OS’s, I’ve also thought more and more about it, and I think I’ll settle for trying out Slackware on the spare partition I have on my Desktop machine instead of Gentoo.

I’m going to save Gentoo as more of a challenge later on if I get more comfortable using Arch on my Desktop machine.

Currently, my Arch install is broken even though I literally only played a few Steam games on it. Not sure what the deal is with that. However, it is a cool thrill to really have a successful installation of Arch so that’s fun in itself and a challenge completed for me.

I really really really like everything Gentoo stands for, but it looks like you have to compile most things to keep the system up to date, which sounds cool at first, but if its basic system level updates, that sounds like a pain to be completely honest, so I think I might save it for a rainy day to try installing it in a VM.

In terms of Bible reading, I’ve gotten to 1 Samuel - 26:1 so far. I’ve learned a lot, especially from someone as brave as David to have been chased by his own king (Saul) to his death, and has strengthened by faith a bit more. It really goes to show you that people in older times had it a lot harder, and we should be thankful we don’t have to necessarily deal with war on a daily basis. I for one am still thankful for my fiannce, my family, the fact that I have food and shelter, and still have a job in these dark times.

I have a few goals for this week, and they include the following (which utilizes a cool few tricks I learned via Emacs’s Org-Mode’s Checklist option):

Goals for Memorial Day Vacation Week [10%] [2/19]:

Have a fun, and safe Memorial Day weekend everyone!