December 11, 2020

I haven’t felt well at all stomach-wise for the last few days, but today, I worked through it to get back into a routine.

I did a lot of self-reflection today, and realized that all the goals I set aside for work-related things really actually came to fruition this year.

I still haven’t decked out my Emacs work configuration as far as it can just yet, and even then, that’s probably maybe even 15% of the potential I could probably experience with a finely tweaked Emacs setup. Even so, I was advised many times on IRC to really really really actually utilize Emacs Window Manager, so I might take the dive. However, despite all of this, I am pretty proud what I know now compared to what I knew two years ago. It’s mindblowing looking back, and really positive as well as humbling at the same time.

I re-organized all of the Org docs on my Devuan machine, and the result looks great. Even the ~/hub directory looks awesome too. I have been debating how to really handle how to handle backups though for all of my stuff. Most likely I am going to utilize the Raspberry Pi 3 along with a 2 TB drive to jerryrig a poorman’s LAN based NAS.

I got an SDXC card, and am also pretty excited to hack my old Nintendo 3DS soon too for homebrew and backups.

Might look into installing FreeBSD in a VM as I would like all my “Just Works” machines to be based in that. If its a Desktop machine, then I’ll use Openbox as the window manager. If its a laptop, then its using AwesomeWM…

OR, I might look into seeing if there’s a better lightweight alternative to AwesomeWM with an easier config file, as I DESPISE how it depends upon Lua script to configure it. The syntax sucks. I would rather learn more ELisp to tweak Emacs than to try to figure out how Lua script works.

Even more so, I am at the point where I am debating removing the top widget altogether, and just displaying the current numbered “Desktop” within Tmux and do full screen for each Desktop window.

I basically want the most minimal X-Org server based window manager that would just boot into X. Ideally so I can just focus on terminal apps, with maybe a GUI browser for stuff like banking websites and the like that depend upon sneaky JS scripts.

Some lightweight window managers I’m considering include:

All I know is that one day, I hope to rival K. Mandela’s site (https://inconsolation.wordpress.com/) in either content or accessibility and ideas to really push terminal apps, Emacs, Vim, and Linux / FreeBSD forward!

Hoping I feel better soon though, but happy to keep my mind occupied! ~ Sam