From the desktop of Joseph Dickson
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”
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”
I’m giving my Debian Stretch drive a little attention and running updates. It’s home is a 1TB 7400 RPM hard drive and serves as home to my personal and server backups as well as this machine’s Steam library. Currently I’m running Peppermint 8 on my main SSD drive and Ubuntu 16.04.3 running i3 on my … Continue reading “Debian Stretch Desktop Update”