danielittlewood
Welcome to my site, where I blog about software and open culture. See below for articles I’ve written, and browse the documentation or the source if you want to learn how the site works.
Programming Notes
I often have problems configuring my system, and if the problem is not easily solved then I tend to write notes to myself about how to fix it. If I put them here, then (selfishly) I can access them easily in multiple places, and (selflessly) other people in similar situations might benefit from reading the things I tried.
I usually write the notes themselves in Markdown and then post-process them into HTML using pandoc.
I’m sick of being asked to choco yumbrew pip6 npm install every project on the internet. I have a package manager already - let me use it.
I wrote a pandoc filter that put little anchors next to all my headers, automatically. This is how!
A cheat-sheet for long commands with many options that I don’t like searching the internet or reading the manual to find over and over.
When I switched to Gentoo, my laptop was warmer than I expected during normal use. It turned out that my CPU was running at max frequency all the time, which was making it consume more power (and hence warm up).
Explanation of how to remap keys, assign scripts to certain key combinations, and fix broken multimedia keys on a system running X.
Free Software
This covers anything to do with Free software which I either think is worth publicising, that I use personally and patch, or that I have written and maintain myself.
I also plan to keep my dotfiles (configuration files for various packages) indexed here.
st is a simple terminal emulator for X which sucks less It is configured by patching the source code, which is written in C. To see the changes I’ve made, plus an explanation of how they work, take a look at my fork on Github.
Photos
I like to travel, and I take pictures when I travel. Here are a few of them:
You can find more on my flickr.