Taking a look at Drupal’s People management

Taking a look at Drupal’s People management

Drupal 8

I set up Drupal 8 earlier this week to kick the tires and get a better understanding of how it differs from WordPress. For starters it provides granular user controls. I imagine this could be a killer feature for anyone setting up an elaborate subscription site where various levels of users are granted additional access. … Continue reading “Taking a look at Drupal’s People management”

90’s era Staedtler Mars-780 lead holder

Staedtler Mars-780

Found this old friend while sorting through some old art supplies in my home office last night. Probably purchased it between late ’96 and ’98 for a drafting course. Staedtler makes their carbon lead for this ranging from 4H to 4B and I forgot how much I loved sketching with this thing. At closer inspection … Continue reading “90’s era Staedtler Mars-780 lead holder”

Creating a simple Pomodoro timer for i3

A terminal based Pomodoro coountdown doesn’t appear to exist but can be created simply in i3’s config file. It requires the following packages to enable “notify-send” which is a simple gtk popup notification. libnotify-bin libnotify4 # Pomodoro start and end notifications bindsym $mod+Control+p exec notify-send –icon=gtk-info Pomodoro “Focus for 25 minutes” && sleep 2500 && … Continue reading “Creating a simple Pomodoro timer for i3”