Pronounced 'ark', this programme lets you send email from the terminal. I wrestled with neomutt (an awful CLI email client) to send emails in the terminal, and found aerc a comparative breath of fresh air. aerc begins with sensible defaults, and a wizard to help you set up your email quickly. Just tell it your email …

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Sile's a typesetting program which makes nifty pdfs. It's been going great for me, so I thought I'd share the journey so far. The Good It's based on lua, which is super-simple. You don't need to know any lua to use it, but if you want to poke about, it's easier enough for a non programmer to get an idea of what's going …

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I love LaTeX because it can do things nothing else can. I have to use it, because it can do things nothing else can. But it has some deep problems. Packages I think the biggest root of problems is having packages, rather than just having people submit a pull request on a central repository and add whatever feature …

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It's the little things that make me feel comfy. Services are Shell Scripts Systemd is fine, but I have to look up how to make a new unit file every time, and then input the path to the executable, which is generally some script I've written. With Void's runit, the service file is the script. There's nothing to learn or …

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This utility is largely useless, as it can only identify people by their email. So if someone has multiple GPG keys associated with one email, the tool will not work. A broken tool is better than a tool which will break soon.

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