Abitha K Thyagarajan Zola 2023-11-29T00:00:00+00:00 https://abithakt.gitlab.io/feed.xml Abitha K Thyagarajan Copyright 2017-2024 Abitha K Thyagarajan. All rights reserved. Default apps 2023 2023-11-29T00:00:00+00:00 2023-11-29T00:00:00+00:00 Abitha K Thyagarajan https://abithakt.gitlab.io/blog/defaults-2023/

Default apps that I use, in 2023. […]

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 Some useful shell aliases 2023-09-26T00:00:00+00:00 2023-09-26T00:00:00+00:00 Abitha K Thyagarajan https://abithakt.gitlab.io/blog/useful-shell-aliases/

A few aliases that I copy to every machine I use. […]

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 LaTeX resources 2023-09-24T00:00:00+00:00 2023-09-24T00:00:00+00:00 Abitha K Thyagarajan https://abithakt.gitlab.io/blog/latex/

Resources for getting started with and using LaTeX. […]

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 Alias for a daily log 2023-09-04T00:00:00+00:00 2023-09-04T00:00:00+00:00 Abitha K Thyagarajan https://abithakt.gitlab.io/blog/daily-log-alias/

Easily write a daily log by simply creating an alias for your shell. […]

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 Setting up Gzip compression for Zola + GitLab Pages 2023-08-19T00:00:00+00:00 2023-08-19T00:00:00+00:00 Abitha K Thyagarajan https://abithakt.gitlab.io/blog/zola-gzip/

This is fairly trivial to implement using a shell script, which I now include in my build process. […]

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 Setting up blog tags in Zola 2023-08-17T00:00:00+00:00 2023-08-17T00:00:00+00:00 Abitha K Thyagarajan https://abithakt.gitlab.io/blog/zola-tags/

Goal: To replicate the old tags page I had in Jekyll. […]

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 New website – construction notice 2023-08-14T00:00:00+00:00 2023-08-14T00:00:00+00:00 Abitha K Thyagarajan https://abithakt.gitlab.io/blog/new-website-theme/

I'm moving away from using Jekyll for this website. The current iteration uses Zola as the static site generator. […]

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 My simple and cute notepad 2020-10-31T00:00:00+00:00 2020-10-31T00:00:00+00:00 Abitha K Thyagarajan https://abithakt.gitlab.io/blog/my-simple-and-cute-notepad/

A cute notepad in the browser […]

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 Roadblocks: Interrupted kernel upgrade 2020-09-18T00:00:00+00:00 2020-09-18T00:00:00+00:00 Abitha K Thyagarajan https://abithakt.gitlab.io/blog/interrupted-kernel-upgrade/

I had a scare yesterday. I was running pacman -Syu when I powered off my laptop by mistake before updates could finish installing. […]

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 Sending email updates from Jekyll with Buttondown and Python 2020-06-27T00:00:00+00:00 2020-06-27T00:00:00+00:00 Abitha K Thyagarajan https://abithakt.gitlab.io/blog/email-updates-jekyll-buttondown-python/

As part of my website revamp, I set up email updates for this blog. This is how I automated sending email updates from Jekyll. […]

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 A fresh new look, and what I’ve learned in the process 2020-06-22T00:00:00+00:00 2020-06-22T00:00:00+00:00 Abitha K Thyagarajan https://abithakt.gitlab.io/blog/fresh-new-look-jekyll/

During the COVID-19 lockdown in my state, I’ve been revamping this website. I’ve undertaken a rewrite of all the content and overhauled the design from the ground up. […]

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 Customizing my Jekyll blog’s Atom feed 2020-06-21T00:00:00+00:00 2020-06-21T00:00:00+00:00 Abitha K Thyagarajan https://abithakt.gitlab.io/blog/customizing-jekyll-atom-feed/

I've recently undertaken a complete revamp of this website, going through all the content, writing a new theme, and organizing things on the back-end. This is how I customized the site's Atom feed. […]

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 Roadblocks: Arch Linux drops into a GRUB shell on boot 2020-02-06T00:00:00+00:00 2020-02-06T00:00:00+00:00 Abitha K Thyagarajan https://abithakt.gitlab.io/blog/arch-linux-drops-into-grub-shell-on-boot/

I had a bit of a scare a couple of days ago. My laptop just came back from (hardware) repairs, and on switching it on, I was dropped into a GRUB shell. Here's how I fixed it. […]

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 My university WiFi config with netctl 2020-01-08T00:00:00+00:00 2020-01-08T00:00:00+00:00 Abitha K Thyagarajan https://abithakt.gitlab.io/blog/university-wifi-config-netctl/

I use netctl and netctl-auto on Arch Linux and I spent a while getting my university's WiFi to connect, so I'm sharing my config here. […]

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 Getting My Words Out 2019-12-31T00:00:00+00:00 2019-12-31T00:00:00+00:00 Abitha K Thyagarajan https://abithakt.gitlab.io/blog/getting-my-words-out/

This year I signed up for Get Your Words Out, a writing challenge. I pledged to write 75,000 words, and today I hit 101,512 words. […]

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 Choosing a random essay topic 2019-12-28T00:00:00+00:00 2019-12-28T00:00:00+00:00 Abitha K Thyagarajan https://abithakt.gitlab.io/blog/choosing-a-random-essay-topic/

Here's another little Bash script I whipped up. It picks a random essay topic from the pool of GRE argument and issue topics. […]

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 Simple LaTeX wordcount 2019-12-20T00:00:00+00:00 2019-12-20T00:00:00+00:00 Abitha K Thyagarajan https://abithakt.gitlab.io/blog/simple-latex-wordcount/

There are a lot of ways to accomplish this, but I wanted to highlight a simple CLI approach I've been using… […]

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 Dynamic MOTD on Arch Linux 2019-11-23T00:00:00+00:00 2019-11-23T00:00:00+00:00 Abitha K Thyagarajan https://abithakt.gitlab.io/blog/dynamic-motd-on-arch/

A Message of the Day (MOTD) is a piece of text that is displayed when you log in to your computer. […]

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 Using Energia and TI Launchpad on Arch Linux 2019-10-16T00:00:00+00:00 2019-10-16T00:00:00+00:00 Abitha K Thyagarajan https://abithakt.gitlab.io/blog/using-energia-and-launchpad-with-arch-linux/

It's not intuitive, so I'm writing this down for posterity. […]

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 My Arch Linux journey: Configuration and software recommendations 2019-10-12T00:00:00+00:00 2019-10-12T00:00:00+00:00 Abitha K Thyagarajan https://abithakt.gitlab.io/blog/my-arch-linux-journey-1/

I installed Arch for the first time this March. I've been enjoying customizing my system to my needs and so I'm sharing the process here. […]

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 Make Alpine save your password on Arch Linux 2019-06-19T00:00:00+00:00 2019-06-19T00:00:00+00:00 Abitha K Thyagarajan https://abithakt.gitlab.io/blog/make-alpine-save-your-password/

The build of Alpine available in the AUR does not support saving your password to disk. While reasonable from a security perspective, it gets pretty annoying. […]

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 A different view of the Internet 2019-05-28T00:00:00+00:00 2019-05-28T00:00:00+00:00 Abitha K Thyagarajan https://abithakt.gitlab.io/blog/a-different-view-of-the-internet/

I joined Mastodon in December last year, and it's lead to me thinking about social media in general and what makes Mastodon different. […]

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 Notes on my first Arch Linux installation 2019-05-17T00:00:00+00:00 2019-05-17T00:00:00+00:00 Abitha K Thyagarajan https://abithakt.gitlab.io/blog/arch-installation-notes/

I installed Arch from the 2019-02 image on 2019.03.10. I'm writing down my observations because I tripped up in a few places, because I learned a lot, and because I will inevitably refer to this when I install it again. […]

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 Overcoming the curve of forgetting with TaskWarrior 2018-07-27T00:00:00+00:00 2018-07-27T00:00:00+00:00 Abitha K Thyagarajan https://abithakt.gitlab.io/blog/curve-of-forgetting/

I read about the curve of forgetting and was inspired to whip up this little Python script to use with TaskWarrior. […]

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 An afternoon with Nanoc 2018-03-18T00:00:00+00:00 2018-03-18T00:00:00+00:00 Abitha K Thyagarajan https://abithakt.gitlab.io/blog/an-afternoon-with-nanoc/

I have a lot of stray text files containing notes on my computer. I've been meaning to clean them up for a long time, and I've also been meaning to make a personal wiki to negate the need for this kind of searching. […]

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 Roadblocks: Too much space occupied by old kernels 2018-01-25T00:00:00+00:00 2018-01-25T00:00:00+00:00 Abitha K Thyagarajan https://abithakt.gitlab.io/blog/roadblocks-too-much-space-old-kernels/

This is the first of a series of posts called 'Roadblocks', in which I'll be detailing errors, bugs, and other issues I run into and how I deal with them. […]

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 Hello World 2017-12-06T00:00:00+00:00 2017-12-06T00:00:00+00:00 Abitha K Thyagarajan https://abithakt.gitlab.io/blog/hello-world/

I'm Abitha and I like Linux, webdev, drawing, reading, anime/manga, and dogs. I'll be using this space to document my projects, and, occasionally, to talk about my life. […]

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