full-stack practical magick

This section contains notes on stuff I’ve figured out how to do with my computers, all of which are secondhand, refurbished business-class machines running Debian GNU/Linux. I not only do my own webcraft with basic MEWNIX tools, but I’ve learned to do a bit of shell scripting, I’m my own sysadmin, and I even dabble in Emacs Lisp so that I can customize GNU Emacs to my liking.

I do it because personal computing should be precisely that. I don’t want my computers programming me. And, frankly, knowing that a computer will execute my commands as typed is comforting.

I’m sharing some of what I’ve learned here in case it’s of use to others. However, there is no warranty; I guarantee nothing save that it worked for me on my own machines.

And, instead of the cat tax, here’s the screenshot tax paid.

a screenshot of two terminal emulators tiled side by side — foot terminals in sway on wayland, one of which is blasting Judas Priest’s Sin After Sin using a shell script I wrote myself to play tracks directly through PipeWire

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