Welcome to the english section of my gemini capsule!
You'll mostly find tech and coding related stuff here.
Hier entlang zur deutschsprachigen Sektion.
A few days ago a fellow geminaut made me aware of micro:
A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
micro uses key bindings inspired by widely used GUI editors, so most people will be very familiar. This eases the onboarding a lot.
I tried it and it works quite well and is fast. But my fingers are very used to the typical vim shortcuts that i had a hard time to get going. Finally i decided to stick with vim and just tune some shortcuts and plugins. So atleast the test of micro helped my to realize what parts of my current vim setup started to anoy me so i could fix them.
I'm quite happy with Cinnamon - so happy that it has already landed on my desktop PC and my wife's laptop will soon also be equipped with it.
While messing around with the package manager some packages got borked, some tools didn't work anymore. So i decided to do a fresh install on my laptop.
Instead of sticking to my long-time companion Xfce i decided to give Cinnamon a try. I've used Mate for some time a while ago, but it felt a bit "outdated". Cinnamon looks pretty polished although it seems to occupy some more ressources then the old Xfce installation. My first impression is that it would be a suitable DE for migrate windows users to linux.
We'll see if this first good impressions survive a few days of daily use.
(outdated) my self-hosting setup
cgmnlm, a colorful gemini line-mode client
Perl maybe considered oldschool by many, but it is still very good in text processing - which is the very core of gemini. Therefore it is obvious to use perl for cgi with gemini.
orrg, online rss feed renderer for gemini
gmnifaq, a dynamic FAQ-engine for gemini capsule
my gemini related projects on src.clttr.info
As a amateur photographer i created some open source tools which support my development workflow
photo-stats is a small statistics processor for your terminal
photography workflow tools on src.clttr.info
I started my "computer career" in the late 1980s, when i wrote BASIC programs on one of these:
I've since been a tech addict interested in coding and admin stuff. I embrace the KISS principle, i guess that's why i'm so excited about gemini.
After 15 years of working as a software engineer, i'm now more into backend stuff. Honestly i have never been that good in creating a new piece of software from scratch, but i'm pretty good at picking some random stuff and improve it. Thats why whenever there was a piece of "legacy software" that needed to be maintaned it got on my desk.
I run a few public sites on the "ordinary web":
fotowolke.net - german photography community
clttr.info - my private shortlink service
scl.clttr.info - my Friendica instance, part of the fediverse
Besides "tech" my spare time is mostly dedicated to my wife and our dogs, motorcycling and photography. Sometimes even some casual gaming.
profile on my private Gitea instance
fediverse account @ scl.clttr.info
licence: CC-BY-NC-SA © René Wagner