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Typewriter scroll mode in vim

August 15, 2011

I came across a Mac specific application Writeroom for distraction free writing and couldn’t help wonder that good ‘ol vim …

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Maintaining ConTeXt Minimals on Arch Linux

December 9, 2010

On Linux, and to a slightly lesser extent on Windows and Mac, TeX Live is the de-facto TeX distribution. However, …

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Smaller is not always better

May 30, 2010

Recently, I noticed that building packages from AUR–especially big packages–started taking a long time. makepkg was spending a lot of …

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Finally, a usable calendar program

January 17, 2010

I have never managed to use my computer to manage my schedule. Most calendar programs are either too slow, too …

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Pacman, don’t eat my disk space

April 12, 2009

I run Arch Linux on my laptop that has a 100GB disk with a 15GB partition for /, a 15GB …

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Linux error messages

January 26, 2009

Really?

The tale of two tiling WMs

January 16, 2009

I love tinkering with my system. About a year ago, I got this crazy idea of trying different window managers …

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