Introduction

The command line has always seemed to me something that is both fascinating and under-utilized to a large extent at the same time. Creating a document on the command line is easy and sometimes it is more straightforward than using WYSIWYG tools like LibreOffice or MS Office or Google Docs. In this post I share how I use Pandoc, Vim and Markdown for creating good professional grade documents on the command line.

Introduction

I have been using a Mac at my work for a few months now and there’s one command line utility in MacOS that I am quite impressed with called open. In this post I talk about a similar alternative in Linux world.

What is open?

From the open man page:

Open a file or folder.

The open command opens a file (or a folder or URL), just as if you had double-clicked the file’s icon.

Introduction

I like the fact that Debian does not do a lot of customizations over the upstream packages by default but this also means extra work for you for setting up things after installing Debian on the PC. The upside is that you get to customize things exactly the way you like it. It definitely helps to have a list to start with and this post lists down some of the customizations I make after installing a fresh copy of Debian.

Introduction

I recently moved my personal blog to GitHub Pages from Wordpress.com. I have been thinking about doing it for sometime and this time I finally did it. And in this post I wanted to share the a few things about it.

What this post is and what it is not

This post talks about about how I made the switch to Jekyll and GitHub Pages from Wordpress.com and the reasons behind it. It is not a rant about Wordpress.com.

The Problem

After the release of Debian 10 Buster, I installed it on my Dell Inspiron 3558 laptop which comes with onboard Intel HD Graphics. I am using Xfce desktop environment instead of the default Gnome desktop. After the installation, I would intermittently face the problem where the whole desktop would suddenly just freeze and stop responding to the mouse and the keyboard. Even after hours of waiting the system would never come back to the normal state and the only solution was to hard reboot the whole system. It seemed really weird as prior to installing Debian 10, I had Debian 9 running on it for more than a year and I never had any such issues.