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Outer Spacebar

I use a mechicanical keyboard. This is more a matter of necessity than a matter of preference as I was really starting to get pain in my fingers using the old rubber dome keyboard. I absolutely cannot stand the keyboard on my MacBook Pro but I usually am either using this with an external keyboard or only when travelling, so this is bearable.

If you’re going to have a mechanical keyboard, you have to have fun with it. My keyboard has red/blue backlighting and I’ve replaced my function keys with cats.

powerline-taskwarrior

Basically all of my work time, both paid and volunteer, is organised by my taskwarrior database.

Sometimes it can be hard to keep focus, and in times where you find yourself forgetting what you were doing, a handy reminder can get you back on track quickly.

If you’re a powerline user then here’s something to keep you on track:

apt install python-powerline-taskwarrior python3-powerline-taskwarrior

You can configure powerline to then show you your context, active task or next task with:

No more no surprises

Debian has generally always had, as a rule, “sane defaults” and “no surprises”. This was completely shattered for me when Vim decided to hijack the mouse from my terminal and break all copy/paste functionality. This has occured since the release of Debian 9.

I expect for my terminal to behave consistently, and this is broken every time I log in to a Debian 9 system where I have not configured Vim to disable this functionality. I also see I’m not alone in this frustration.

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