I use computers to do things and make things. Sometimes this requires me to create my own tools but I prefer to use other people’s tool. This is a log of things I use on my computer.
2025-04-30 Played with getting PythonFu to work with GIMP to copy the image to the clipboard. Updated to Gimp 3.0 AppImage for this.
2025-05-02 mozeidon CLI, written in Go, to get information out of Chrome from the command-line. It can list history and bookmarks and control tabs.
2025-05-03 brave-history to dump out and search history. Pretty useful for finding links.
2025-05-05 Get CLI control of youtube working with playbackctl - largely just works. Notes.
2025-05-05 Added a bunch of emoji’s to my commandline to feel cool. Using kitty because it supports emoji’s: 🖋️ 25-05-06T2:09:52🗓️ 0❓️0:01⌛️user@thunkpad💻️/home/user/all/books📂⚡️
2025-05-05 Got youtube-dl set up for a little clipping. You can downloads clips you make in youtube. Needed to work out how to get formats working found a decent starting tutorial and various links.
2025-05-05 Shortcut to cycle recently used tabs in brave called CLUT . Found brave://extensions/shortcuts - which allows you to globally change shortcuts.
2025-05-20 Wrote a little script to highlight text in a stream because I didn’t like that you had to explicitly match everything with grep.
2025-05-20 Learned too much about how escape codes for colors work. There are at least three standards: 16 customizable colors, 256 hard-coded colors; or 16 million colors.