At my previous employment I was forced to use a windows system. Although not ideal, I was able to continue using my Linux terminal workflows by heavily utilizing Windows Subsystem for Linux. As part of this I had to get comfortable with integrating tmux into my workflow as I didn’t care to learn the Windows Terminal options for terminal multiplexing. I don’t need tmux quite as much anymore since my current employer allows me run Linux on my development machine, but I still use it when remoting into my work desktop via ssh. Hopefully this can be of use in improving the efficiency of others that depend on terminal based workflows.

This is going to be primarily opinion based post but I want to talk about a shakeup that has happened. I have uninstalled Artix from all of my computers and have instead swapped them to Void Linux. This is the first time I have changed Linux distros in about 3/4 years and was done with a heavy heart as having to setup a new system is always a pain. Regardless I have been using void linux for about 2-3 months and I am finding it a much better experience than Artix, and I want to discuss the reasons why below.

I’m currently working on developing an implementation of the Concurrent Atomistic-Continuum method using C++ and CUDA to accelerate calculations. A need arose to use valgrind for debugging some memory issues. I currently run Artix Linux and it turns out that both Artix Linux and Arch Linux have fully removed all debug packages from their repositories and have swapped over to a debuginfod style system. On my system, said debuginfod was working with gdb but not with valgrind. In particular I was missing the debug symbols for glibc which prevented valgrind from working at all. I had to try a few things before I got it working so I want to share how I did. I also want to mention an issue I ran into if any guys from Artix Linux ever end up reading this post.

I’ve recently been developing sites for some family/friends. I had one person request highlighting the currently selected menu item. I had built a custom theme which used a navbear defined in the site wide hugo.toml. There were a few different solutions but I wanted to highlight the solution I ended up using for my use case. A dummy of my site directory set up is:

content
    |-- section1
            |--_index.md
            |--section1Post.md
    |-- section2
            |--_index.md
            |--section2Post.md
    |-- section3
            |--_index.md

In my header partial I created a menu by looping over the entries in [[menu.main]] defined in the hugo.toml. It’s important here to end the url with a /. Hugo adds an ending /, to the urls of the pages that it creates. While this might not be necessary to make the hyperlink work, it will be necessary to get the highlighting correct. The definition of the menu looks like:

I recently had interest in starting to work on the implementation of the Concurrent Atomistic-Continuum Method using C++ to take advantage of GPU acceleration. As a first step, I began thinking about where I wanted to host my project. I decided to add hosting my own git server to my list of self-hosted services, including e-mail and matrix chat server. This is a quick guide on how I set up Gitea and configured it on my website. As a note, my web server is a Debian machine using Nginx