A couple months ago, I wrote about how I had started using Ansible for desktop configuration. I still do, but it's a bit more nuanced now than it was then. There's a few reasons why, but really the most important one was that making any sort of configuration change ended …

Since late 2009, I've been volunteering at the church I attend. I started by simply running the mixing board and recording the church service audio, but as time went on my role has expanded greatly. I've since started managing some of the computer systems surrounding the A/V system, for …

I take a lot of photos. I like to think I'm OK at it, but for a long time I always stumbled when it came to organizing them properly.

In the beginning, I used Shotwell to pull photos off my camera and into folders. This worked OK, but Shotwell is …

If you read some of my other articles, you might be able to guess that my systems are all set up in a pretty unique and custom way. I use my own window manager, a copy of Emacs that's heavily customized, I use my own photo system, while this post …

1. Background

As you can probably tell by the existence of this blog, I’m what most people in the tech world call a "power user". I make use of all sorts of little hacks and tricks to make my computers run faster, and do what I want rather than …