Hello and thank you

Unread post by **bayberry** » Fri Apr 10, 2015 4:03 am

I'm bayberry, and I've been fooling around with distros here since last June or so.

My first hobby is writing, and my second hobby is fiddling around with whatever workstation I have going. Minimal is best. If I knew a way to use 1.5x line-spacing on fbterm or tty or something similar I'd be NOX in a heartbeat. As it is, I'm in the messy position of using a light tiling WM and xterm for small benefits. Bspwm for now because I got caught in that wave, but I think I'll go back to Catwm or one of its successors soon: no need to toy around with rules and configurations. Check it over, compile it, and done. I'm clean on a computer in a way I never could be on a desk. Not perfect, but I'm getting there.

I don't have the tear-it-down, build-it-up background that a lot of people here have, but I don't pressure myself to get better too quickly at this stuff. I'm still ignoring kernels and init systems (oh, it's working? cool). I'm not really a hacker, but only because I don't have the time to spare. But I've learned a lot of small tricks by lurking around here, #!, and Arch.

I like a swordfish steak.

Unread post by **Dr_Chroot** » Fri Apr 10, 2015 4:46 am

Wonderful to have you at the grill, bayberry! It really sounds like you have a lot of wisdom to draw from.

bayberry wrote:Check it over, compile it, and done. I'm clean on a computer in a way I never could be on a desk. Not perfect, but I'm getting there.

Your philosophy is something that I should learn from; my installs always end up too bloated and I have to restart again :D When you get a chance, I would love to see a bspwm scrot of yours over in /usr/bin/scrot ;)

Unread post by **bones** » Fri Apr 10, 2015 5:29 am

Welcome to the grill, bayberry. I believe you are the second writer here at the grill, along with Launfal.

Unread post by **DebianJoe** » Fri Apr 10, 2015 5:33 am

Welcome to the BBQ bayberry. I like the "oh, it's working? Cool." philosophy quite a lot, especially when it comes to inits or kernels. Bikeshedding is a pointless waste of space as I see it.

You sound like you'll be a good fit, and it's nice to have you.

Unread post by **darry1966** » Fri Apr 10, 2015 7:24 am

Welcome Bayberry to the Grill.

Unread post by **wuxmedia** » Fri Apr 10, 2015 7:31 am

Welcome indeed.
Nice thing around here, we are pretty diverse, so everybody brings a different dish to the BBQ, but with the broad topic of keeping it minimal without being a total fanatic.
Not exactly sure what my dish would be... :)

Unread post by **vic** » Fri Apr 10, 2015 7:34 am

Grilled swordfish sounds great, have a happy meal, cheers!

Unread post by **GekkoP** » Fri Apr 10, 2015 7:39 am

Welcome.

Unread post by **darry1966** » Fri Apr 10, 2015 8:06 am

Mmmm Cajun chicken for me or a steak done on one of those hot stones - there is a name for it but can't remember anyway like mine well done.

Unread post by **dkeg** » Fri Apr 10, 2015 11:23 am

Thank you bayberry. And welcome. What kind of writing? IIRC launfal writes novels(?). We also have a spin dedicated to writing ... Author. Check out the IRC channel too; #linuxbbq on freenode. I like to advocate for the channel, even though I myself am not on there much.

Unread post by **vic** » Fri Apr 10, 2015 1:04 pm

What do like you to write? Just curious. Thanks for the intro, appreciate it.

Unread post by **bayberry** » Fri Apr 10, 2015 3:33 pm

Well, that's a welcome. Thank you everyone!

For those asking about what I write: right now, a comic novel that I'm starting to demolish into strip format, standalone single-page things that remind me of the funny pages. I might even publish some online at some point. I've been looking at a tool called zodiac (git), yet another static site generator but this one's a simple tool, all about sh, awk, and UNIX pipes. Have to figure something out for RSS, though.

I've seen 'Author,' great spin with a lot of good setup but I don't like the WM. I can't remember what it was now. But I had never used hnb before, and it opened my eyes.

I'll try to put up a .webm in the 'Desktop that Moves' thread soon. Don't count on it being bspwm, I wrote out Catwm in my post above and it got me excited, so I might have a weekend project.

Thanks again for the welcome—

Unread post by **dkeg** » Fri Apr 10, 2015 3:49 pm

Excellent. Just curious, why not just add a different wm to Author?

Unread post by **bayberry** » Fri Apr 10, 2015 5:18 pm

I just had my own toolchain already, and wasn't up for the plunge. Laziness is the word, I think. At the time I was using mc plus sandy for just about everything. I took a couple hints from Author and chugged along.

Unread post by **simgin** » Sat Apr 11, 2015 12:34 am

^ Another suckless fan :)

Unread post by **wuxmedia** » Sat Apr 11, 2015 9:37 am

never really got static site generators, if I have to put in markdown, might as well write html.
Have to write CSS, then write CSS (although I'm not a 'web guy' I am thinking a touch of SCSS or something might be a good learn)
the git proj you linked has the 'include' style thing, but I do that with PHP, which I guess isn't that static, probably just run it through php5cli and get the html.
Anyway. Nice to have you around - yeah get on IRC, although you wont see me much, more dkeg as you are probably state side.

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Sat Apr 11, 2015 2:15 pm

I smell LaTex! :) Bet you would like it (who gives a shit about 1.5 linespace on the screen if all that counts is on the paper or PDF, right?)

sudo apt-get install gummi

Welcome to the grill!

Unread post by **GekkoP** » Sat Apr 11, 2015 7:20 pm

^
WHY U NO AUCTeX!?!!?!1! ;)

Unread post by **rhowaldt** » Sat Apr 11, 2015 9:05 pm

welcome mr Berry, have fun :)

Unread post by **ivanovnegro** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 5:41 pm

Welcome Berry. I already saw your "insane" post about vim. :)

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