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+title: Essays
+tags: ["toc"]
+---
+Below is a collection of long-form content I've authored.
+
+### I've written about:
+- [[Essays/productivity|Increasing your productivity]] through all the means that have helped me
+- [[Essays/why-i-garden|Why I cultivate a digital garden]]

content/Essays/productivity.md

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+title: How You can Increase your Productivity
+tags: ["productivity", "incomplete", "essay"]
+---
+This article is split into four sections: 
+- [[#General Advice]], psychological or other hacks that I've experienced success with.
+- [[#Easy Tools]], pieces of software or other tools that aren't the *best* option strictly, but they take very little time to set up.
+- [[#Medium Tools]], something that anyone who's willing to invest a little time learning [[on-linux|Linux]] or some other foreign computer concept can do.
+- [[#Tools for Hackers]], 

content/Essays/why-i-garden.md

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 title: Why I Garden
+tags: ["incomplete", "cloud", "essay"]
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 ### Short answer: fun.
 

content/Misc/linux-isms.md

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 title: Linux-isms
+tags: ["linux", "glossary"]
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-This article is somewhat of a glossary for all the phrases that I use that originate with Linux or related projects like GNU.
+This article is somewhat of a glossary for all the words/phrases that I use that originate with Linux or related projects like GNU.
 
+## On Acronyms
+Unix LOVES their acronyms. `ls`? LiSt. `cat`? conCATenate. `grep`?  Globular Regular Expression Print. Many commands and programs were designed to be typed quickly in the early days of computing, and holdovers persist to this day.
+## Definitions
+### BSD
+- [Berkeley Software Distribution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution).
+	1. A now-defunct free operating system regarded as the predecessor to modern Linux.
+	2. A free software license. Most commonly in modern use, the BSD 2-Clause License, aka the FreeBSD license.
 ### Symlink
 - Short for "Symbolic Link." 
 - A file in a Linux system is really just a pointer to a location on a storage device. 

content/Misc/what-is-a-garden.md

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 title: What is a Garden?
+tags: ["glossary"]
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 # Definitions
 > A digital garden is an online space at the intersection of a notebook and a blog, where digital gardeners share seeds of thoughts to be cultivated in public.

content/Programs I Like/code-editors.md

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 title: Code Editors
+tags: ["productivity", "programming"]
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-
+Below are my two favorite ways to write code. Let's start with the big one:
 ## Visual Studio Code
+WIP
+## [Neovim](https://neovim.io/)
+Sometimes, you just want to bang out a few lines of code, hit save, and go back to whatever you were doing before. This is [Neovim](https://neovim.io/).
 
-## Neovim
+Based on the older `vim` text editor (which was in turn based on `vi`, the [[linux-isms#BSD|BSD]] Unix program), Neovim is designed to be as minimally intrusive as possible while remaining responsive to the needs of a developer. 
+
+This does come with a high learning curve, as Neovim is a *modal text editor*. `vi` was created in the days that a computer was simply a circuit board, a keyboard, and a CRT monitor; no fancy peripherals like a "mouse" or a "touch screen". As such, it needed to be usable in such a non-user-friendly environment. 
+
+Neovim has three commonly used modes (among others):
+- *Normal mode*: for navigating throughout the file and using any of the MANY power-user keyboard shortcuts to rapidly modify the file. This mode is the reason that modal text editors are so powerful, as well as so arcane.
+- *Insert mode*: This one is most familiar to those that use Notepad on Windows, or any of the similar Linux/Mac programs. It's just a normal text editor, type letters/numbers/punctuation and navigate with the arrow keys.
+- *Visual mode*: For selecting blocks of text and doing things with a selected block like cutting it to paste somewhere else.
+
+In Normal mode, you can tell Neovim what to do by giving it commands. By default, you start a command with the colon. I shouldn't tell you this, but typing `:q` from Normal mode and pressing Enter will exit the program, because `q` is the Quit command. [[Misc/linux-isms#On Acronyms|Unix loves their acronyms]].
+
+I'm a believer in the principle that your computer should adapt to you, so I often find myself writing tiny little files around [[Projects/my-computer|my computer]] that I don't want to open VSCode to edit. I just open a terminal (if I'm not already working in one), pull up the path, type the file name, make my changes, and done. It's quick, it's easy, and (my favorite) it's free.
+- To speed the process of opening a terminal, I recommend a dropdown terminal (also called a "quake-style" terminal). The aim is that when you press a keyboard shortcut (Alt+backtick for me), it opens a terminal. I've used both [Guake](http://guake-project.org/) and a docked [tabby-terminal](https://tabby.sh/) for the same end. Still on the fence over which I like more.
+
+Neovim can be installed on all platforms. If you'd like to get started, open it with `nvim` and use the command `:Tutor`.

content/Programs I Like/home.md

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 title: Programs I Like
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+This is a list of programs which I may or may not have experience with, and why I have a positive regard for them. 
+
 Generally, I adore any tool with a community-based ecosystem that has some component which can be deployed on a server of your choosing. This isolates your data from the data of others and keeps it out of the public eye. Nerdy!
 
 ## Anything self-hosted.
 - [[on-self-hosted-software|On Self-Hosted Software]]
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+## [[on-linux|Linux]].
+'nuff said.
 ## Suckless software
-- https://suckless.org/ is a wonderful resource for in-depth explanations of why a certain piece of software [sucks](https://suckless.org/sucks/) or [rocks](https://suckless.org/rocks/). However, it's limited to a very specific set of programs. Here are some strictly software projects I may or may not have had the chance to work with, as well as my quick thoughts on each.
+- https://suckless.org/ is a wonderful resource for in-depth explanations of why a certain piece of software [sucks](https://suckless.org/sucks/) or [rocks](https://suckless.org/rocks/). However, it's limited to a very specific set of programs. 
+- This category typically includes highly flexible pieces of software that I affectionately refer to as "configuration hell." If you're not breaking your entire install every time you want to view a new filetype, you're doing it wrong.
+- Here are some strictly software projects, as well as my quick thoughts on each (with a more in-depth explanation sometimes available):
+	- [[Programs I Like/code-editors#Neovim|Neovim]], the blazingly fast and highly-configurable terminal text editor. 

content/Projects/my-computer.md

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+title: My Computer
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+I run Fedora Linux with the GNOME desktop environment.
+
+I use a [bare git repository](https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles) to backup all my small configuration files that are scattered throughout my computer. 
+- Sidebar: I deviated from the tutorial and called my alias `dots` instead of `config`. It just felt better and there was no chance of confusion with Fedora's `configure` system utility.

content/index.md

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 The Backlinks pane is a list of all pages that link to this site in content. Because you’re on the homepage, it’s empty. On content pages, it’ll be more substantial and serve as a convenient navigation tool. 
 
 # What else do I need to know?
-#### Rough sitemap 
+### Rough sitemap 
 This should be a mostly complete textual site listing in case, like me, you find the aforementioned [[#What the hell is that spiderweb thing?|Graph View]] a bit too un-navigable for practical use.
 - [[Projects/home|Projects I've worked on]]
 - [[Programs I Like/home|Programs that I like]]
 - [[Misc/home|Miscellaneous writings]]
 
-#### Epistemological disclosure
+### Epistemological disclosure
 Please accept that I reserve the right to be wrong on this website. I don’t claim to be an expert on any of the subject matter within. As this site reflects a learning process, I’m also liable to change my mind if I research an issue further. I’ll document if this happens. 
 
 If you don’t like how I’ve done something, feel free to write a piece in your own garden for it. I’d love to read it! It’s no secret that a lot of this garden comprises my gripes with various things. 
 
-#### Disclaimer
+### Disclaimer
 It goes without saying that anything herein constitutes my own opinion and not the opinion of any affiliated person or entity. Nothing on this website is legal advice either. 
 
-#### Attribution
+### Attribution
 Feel free to properly reference any of the content within in your own gardens or work. Don’t plagiarize. 
 
 **Do not input my work into a generative AI for any purpose, including to train or update the model, explore alternate positions to mine, or to converse with the work.** Keep the moles out of the garden. 

content/on-linux.md

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+title: On Linux
+tags: ["linux", "cloud", "advanced"]
+---