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blog/_posts/2016-12-24-minimalism.md

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 header:
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 *Find out what is important to you and let go of everything else.*

blog/_posts/_computer_minimalism.md

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+layout: single
+title: computer minimalism
+header:
+  image: blog/minimalism.jpg
+---
+
+Lately I have been thinking a lot about minimalism, how to incorporate
+more of it into my life and where it is already present.
+
+The way I use my computer has been trending towards more and more
+minimalistic ever since I started graduate school. My usage is tailored
+to coding, writing and editing text, email and research on the
+Internet. The corner stones of my minimalist computer usage are:
+
+* awesome wm desktop manager for linux
+* vim for all text editing (like really all of it - even email)
+* mutt for email
+* tmux for running and testing code (tmux-vim integration)
+* fzf fuzzy finder to eliminate the need for retyping commands or paths
+
+Currently I am using linux with the Awesome WM desktop environment. It
+is a minimalist automatically tiling desktop manager. That means I
+dont have to arrange windows to be visible. Ever. It automatically
+arranges windows to fill all available screen space according to some
+tiling scheme, that can easily be changed.
+This eliminates all the overhead of having to align, resize and make
+visible whatever window you are working on currently. It also always
+automatically means I am always using 100% of the available pixels of
+my monitor. This means I can productively and comfortably work on the
+12.1'' (!?? TODO) monitor of my beloved X220 Thinkpad or a single 24''
+rotated screen at work.
+
+I love vim. It embodies minimalism for text editing and coding. Using
+plugins it can be adapted and extended to do anything you would want to
+do with text. I mostly use [YouCompleteMe](), vim-tmux integration, and
+[Run external command thing].
+
+...

blog/_posts/_stop-retyping-commands.md

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+layout: single
+title: stop retyping commands
+header:
+  image: blog/fzf.png
+---
+
+Stop retyping the same commands over and over again! Let's make our
+computers do some work for us and put some of those GBs of storage and
+compute power to good use. If, like me, you use the shell a lot this will
+literally save some chunk of your life. The setup I describe in the
+following now also serves as a kind of long term memory for how to use a
+certain command or program. I can just search back through all my
+previous commands and quickly refresh my memory if I forgot.
+
+You might already know the `Ctrl-R` command to search backward through
+the history of commands you have typed. If not try it. It is magical.
+The problem is that those searches have to exactly match parts of the command
+you are looking for and you can only see the latest command matching
+your search. In short the default `Ctrl-R` is not very user friendly.
+
+There are way better tools for searching through large text files such
+as your bash history. The one I personally use is
+[fzf](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf) since it is light weight and fast
+and integrates well with vim and tmux (more about that some other time).
+If you only ever use a single terminal at a time just install fzf and
+start using the new and amazing `Ctrl-R`: fzf performs [fuzzy
+matching](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximate_string_matching) of
+the string you enter against your history or text file and it displays
+a sorted list of the best matching strings which is updated in real-time
+as you type your search.
+
+It gets more interesting if you have multiple terminals open at the
+same time (maybe via tmux). In that case the command history fragments
+and you cannot search a command you typed into one shell in another
+one. Additionally, commands are lost whenever you close a shell while
+another one still exists.
+
+To circumvent this we are going to log every command you enter. Simply
+add the following line to your `.bashrc`:
+```
+export PROMPT_COMMAND='if [ "$(id -u)" -ne 0 ]; then echo "$(date "+%Y-%m-%d.%H:%M:%S") $(pwd) $(history 1)" >> ~/.logs/bash-history-$(date "+%Y-%m-%d").log;' 
+```
+
+Bash executes the command in its `PROMPT_COMMAND` variable right after you hit
+enter to execute. The if statement makes sure
+you are not root, and then logs the time, folder and the command into a log
+file in your home directory `~/.logs/`.  Make sure to create that directory.
+An additional advantage of using this command logging system is that
+you could easily share the commands between computers.
+
+Now we just need to configure fzf to search through all files in the
+`~/.logs` folder to find commands similar to whatever you are typing. 
+To do replace all occurrences of the command `history` in your fzf config file
+`~/.fzf.bash` with:
+```
+cat ~/.logs/* | cut -f 1,6- --delimiter=\" \"
+```
+
+Now you should be able to use `Ctrl-R` with fzf across terminals and
+bash sessions. Enjoy!
+

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updateCsail.sh

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 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 jekyll build
-rsync -ruv _site/* lebkuchen.csail.mit.edu:~/public_html/
+rsync -ruv _site/* flan.csail.mit.edu:~/public_html/