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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.

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 ;)

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

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.

Welcome Bayberry to the Grill.

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... :)

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

Welcome.

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.

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.

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

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—

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

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.

^ Another suckless fan :)

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.

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!

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

welcome mr Berry, have fun :)

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