https://gabevenberg.com/Recent content on Gabe VenbergHugo -- gohugo.ioenWed, 04 Sep 2024 12:20:02 -0600https://gabevenberg.com/posts/cli-renaissance/Wed, 04 Sep 2024 12:20:02 -0600https://gabevenberg.com/posts/cli-renaissance/Over the past few years, it seems like the rate at which new CLI tools are being written has picked back up again, accelerating after seeing relatively little activity between ~1995 and ~2015. I’d like to talk about this trend I’ve noticed, where people are rewriting and rethinking staples of the command line interface, why I think this trend might be happening, and why I think this trend is a good thing.https://gabevenberg.com/posts/nushell/Fri, 01 Mar 2024 11:34:04 -0600https://gabevenberg.com/posts/nushell/I’ve been experimenting with the tools I use on a regular basis lately – switching up my shell, terminal multiplexer, and even trying out other editors. Today, Id like to focus on my experiments with my shell. My old setup Before this, I had been using a minimal zsh setup for a long time, with only built in features and a handmade prompt. Zsh is a good shell, probably one of the best POSIX shells out there, and I still use it when a POSIX shell is needed.https://gabevenberg.com/posts/ferris-sweep-keyboard/Tue, 06 Feb 2024 15:01:28 -0600https://gabevenberg.com/posts/ferris-sweep-keyboard/I’ve been using a split keyboard at home now for several years (specifically, the UHKv2, though nowadays I probably would have gone for something ortholinear) and I’ve always wanted one for the office. The problem was, if I was going to get a new keyboard, I wanted it to be for both the office and travel, and most prebuilts around are not that portable. I also was not confident enough in my soldering skills to solder the SMT diodes found on many handbuilt designs out there.https://gabevenberg.com/posts/rust-embedded-unit-testing/Sat, 28 Oct 2023 18:41:37 -0500https://gabevenberg.com/posts/rust-embedded-unit-testing/I’ve been messing around with embedded rust recently, using the BBC micro:bit as a learning platform. Its really cool to see a high level language achieving the same results as low level c. However, one of my favorite features of rust, the ease of unit testing, is a bit less straightforward to do in cross-compiled, no-std projects. Obviously we cant run tests on our local machine that rely on hardware only found on the target board, but most of a project is going to be logic independent of the hardware its running on.https://gabevenberg.com/posts/dotfile-management/Sat, 29 Jul 2023 16:37:34 -0500https://gabevenberg.com/posts/dotfile-management/So I’ve been using git to managing my dotfiles since [checks git log]… 2018. At first, I was going to write some inevitably brittle shell script to handle symlinking from the dotfile repo to where each file should be, but before I got about to implementing it, I discovered stow. Now, after using stow for dotfile management for over 5 years, I figure I should really document exactly how I go about managing my dotfiles, with an aim to help other people who want to have an easy to manage dotfiles repo that can be quickly deployed on new machines.https://gabevenberg.com/posts/autologin-nextcloud-client-on-arch/Sun, 12 Dec 2021 14:59:31 -0500https://gabevenberg.com/posts/autologin-nextcloud-client-on-arch/During the 5 or so years I’ve had Nextcloud, I’ve always been quite happy with the web client, but the device clients… need some work. I recently figured out how to resolve one of my biggest pain points on the Linux desktop client, and am recording it here, mostly so I don’t forget next time I setup a new computer, and to save others with the same problem from endless forum post and GitHub issue crawling.https://gabevenberg.com/posts/caps-to-ctrl/Sun, 23 May 2021 04:59:28 -0500https://gabevenberg.com/posts/caps-to-ctrl/In the past 2 years or so, I have been using my caps lock key as a separate ctrl key on my desktop keyboard. This is very easy to do in X11 with a setxkmap command. However, with my laptop, I try to run without X as much as possible. (I’ve found it make a nice, distraction free environment, and it seems to be pretty good for battery life) Obviously, without X, we cannot use setxkmap.https://gabevenberg.com/posts/arch-install/Sun, 11 Apr 2021 19:19:51 -0500https://gabevenberg.com/posts/arch-install/I’ve been using Arch Linux for several years now. Of course, my first installs were… blunderous, as i wanted to do full disk encryption from the get-go, and I didn’t know what I was doing. After those first one or two installs, I generally settled on LVM on LUKS with a GRUB bootloader and my swap on an LVM volume, mostly because it makes it much easier to setup hibernation/suspend to disk vs, say, a swap file.https://gabevenberg.com/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://gabevenberg.com/about/Hi There! I’m Gabe Venberg. Professionally, I’m a newly minted computer scientist, with interest in embedded software, OS development (and anything backend, really), and strongly typed languages (🦀). Unprofessionally, I’m a general nerd, ever tinkering on my 3d printer, learning embedded systems programming, building split keyboards, managing my self-hosted cloud, and reading way too many sci-fi books. For my would-be assassins, you can generally find me in the Fargo, North Dakota area.https://gabevenberg.com/resume/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://gabevenberg.com/resume/Contact info Personal Git Server GitHub Email Professional Summary 2 years of experience as a software engineer 1 year of experience with embedded Linux. Bachelors of science in computer science. Contributor to Python programming language standard library. Experience working across 8+hr timezone differences. Skills Summary Programming Languages: Rust, Python, Java, Bash, C, Nix Tools: Git, Yocto linux, LaTeX, Vim, Jenkins Linux Administration: NGINX, Apache, Caddy, Docker, NixOS, Proxmox Work Experience John Deere Embedded Linux Engineer