Facets of BrettW

Mon 02 January 2023

I’ll guide you through my current personal knowledge system, called my Exocortex. It uses org-roam in Emacs.

Sat 17 October 2020

How to Distract Your Colleagues With Tracery

I have a screensaver that distracts my colleagues with procedurally generated text. I’ll run through some of the techniques in Tracery I used to accomplish it.

Sun 31 March 2019

Using Tracery in Python

I explain how to use the popular Tracery library in Python, including some Python-specific tips.

Fri 29 December 2017

Creating cool dashboards with Conky

If you ever wanted your little slice of the Tony Stark life, then try making a desktop dashboard with conky.

Tue 26 December 2017

How to move your website to Pelican

Looking to move from Wordpress to a static site? Learn from my journey!

Sat 03 June 2017

Moving to Linux - Can all my apps come with me?

I want to move to Linux, so I explore all the wins and losses for this transition.

Thu 16 February 2017

How much of my Steam library is Linux-friendly?

Linux is becoming more and more friendly for Steam gaming. But how much?

Mon 11 April 2016

How to design cards #3

How to turn our cards into a card sheet for printing or prototyping.

Thu 10 September 2015

Why put your .emacs in org-mode?

Once I learned that you could write your .emacs file in org-mode, I never looked back! Here’s a demo on how to do it.

Tue 02 June 2015

Thoughts on a personal digital assistant for the future

Every Iron Man movie I think about building an AI assistant. Here’s my reflections…