Articles by brian

Making Caps Lock an Additional Control in XWindows

Background: I just built a new computer, and "upgraded" to Ubuntu 12.04. I've been a fan of Ubuntu for a long time (first Debian, then Ubuntu because of the faster / more predictable release cycle). But you can add me to the list of people unimpressed with the "Unity ...

Migrated to WordPress

Just switched from Blogger to WordPress. Several links are broken (I will fix these soon), and it looks like subscribers are probably going to see a bunch of duplicate posts. Sorry about that...

Moving Through i3 Workspaces

The default i3 config file only has commands to move to a specific numbered workspace (e.g. mod-1, mod-2). For better or worse, I'm in the habit of "traveling" through the workspace list using Ctrl-Alt-Up and Ctrl-Alt-Down (or Left and Right, if you prefer a horizontal feel for your ...

Moving to zsh

To get started:

  1. sudo aptitude install zsh
  2. chsh /bin/zsh

That's pretty simple.

Of course, you're not running zsh yet... either logout and log back in or just run zsh at the prompt. You'll get a series of prompts to configure a .zshrc. It only takes a ...

9 "Must-Have" Tools for Software Teams

The items below are useful systems based on my experience working with a bunch of different software teams at a handful of companies over the past decade-plus. I haven't bothered to list things like compilers, interpreters, libraries, etc. If you don't have those, you aren't making software ...

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