thaumaturgy

   full-stack practical magick: UNIX, Emacs, and webcraft

   published on Wednesday, 1 July 2026

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   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 UNIX 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.
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   CAPTION: full-stack practical magick: UNIX, GNU Emacs, and webcraft

   date title text/html text/plain
   2026-07-10 Local Git Runners Using Git Hooks
   /thaumaturgy/local-git-runners-using-git-hooks.html
   /thaumaturgy/local-git-runners-using-git-hooks.txt

   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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