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Multiple Monitor Resolutions with Proton
6 December 2021

Multi-monitor gaming is already a niche experience on Windows, and a cursory glance shows that Nvidia requires using Surround, and AMD requires Eyefinity. Both of these are only supported in Windows. The Arch Wiki points...

Cuda Accelerated Continuous Wallpaper Pattern Rendering
20 November 2021

Inspired by Frank A. Faris’s Creating Symmetry, I decided to implement the methods described in Python to be able to play with these amazing renderings myself. I then leveraged numba to easily translate...

Finding a Use for Keyboard RGB
4 November 2021

For the longest time, my fancy individually addressable LED keyboard was restricted to a boring, static backlight. While the LED animations were fun at first, once I migrated the keyboard to a Linux workstation, I...

Live Mardown to PDF and HTML Rendering with Vim
12 October 2021

The hardest part about transitioning to Vim for me was losing the interactive rendering for Markdown and LaTeX. It wasn’t something that was a dealbreaker, since most interactive rendering I do can be covered by...

The Dogeshit Manifesto – [Mirror]
30 September 2021

A mirror of ‘The Dogeshit Manifesto’, a short paper outlining the motivations for designing Dogeshit, and how the mechanism works for public audience.

Toggling on a Light Theme
13 September 2021

While dark themes are great for working indoors and in low light conditions, dark themes in the direct sunlight can be unreadable. This used to be a setting I toggled in my IDE whenever I’d...

Updating my KDE Background Based on the Time
10 September 2021

Updating my background with the time of the day adds some variety throughout the day, but it’s also been a great at drawing my attention to when certain times roll over. Doing so in KDE...

Political Compass or Political Temperature
10 August 2021

The political compass perhaps the most familiar model when it comes to discussing western political ideology. The model, while simple to grasp, has its critiques on how accurate of a model it really is. A...

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