Gueorgui Tcherednitchenko @gueorgui@merveilles.town

#introductions

Nice to meet you! My name is Gueorgui, and I'm a photographer, designer, and engineer living and working in London, UK after living in Russia, France, Germany, and Japan.

In my work life, I'm running a tiny creative studio called A Possible Space (https://a.possible.space) together with my wife.

I'm interested in the intersections of art, tech, society, and in working for an ethical, sustainable future.

#photography #tech #society #design #privacy #ethics

Slowly making my way through the Paul Ford Uses This interview (https://usesthis.com/interviews/paul.ford/) and, in parallel, reading about org-mode and pandoc. I feel like I'm kind of realising the huge potential of computers all over again, this is all kinds of amazing.

This is what I mean. How can text look so bad?

Really enjoying my ThinkPad X230 running Ubuntu (it's my "learning new stuff" machine for now), but the one thing that I do miss from my Macbook every single time is the high resolution display and especially the smooth text rendering. There's no getting around it, text looks bad on this low-res screen.

Is it stupid to try to get back into #Emacs by using something like http://spacemacs.org/? Should one start building a config from scratch instead?

It's been 14 years since I last actively used Emacs for anything, so I forgot most of the keybindings, and overall just got completely used to Vim.

🎵 Et quand on n'est pas programmé pour faire un foin, je ne pense pas à demain, parce que demain, c'est loin.

‪Guy intensely picking his nose on the train while reading a book titled “How to be right”‬

Hey Fediverse, here's something that I just started with my friend and favourite designer Mathieu Mayer (he's not on Mastodon, yet).

We're teaming up to build MVPs (Web and native) for new and established businesses. So if you have a product idea that needs to be developed to the point where you can test a new market, or attract some investment, you should talk to us first.

All referrals are very welcome ❤️

https://www.webuildyourmvp.com

#software #mvp #design #startup #hashtags

Using a 5k display to run vim inside tmux in a terminal #winning

Oh, you can get rid of the title bar in Firefox, great. How about the other apps? #theWorkshop #ubuntu

More compact theme: because this is way too much window chrome.

Anyhow, I was able to setup my environment rather painlessly and even managed to get some work done on the machine! Loving it so far.

TODO:
- Try to get the fingerprint scanner to work
- Try to get AirPlay to work
- Figure out how to better work with i3
- If staying in Gnome, find a more compact theme
- Figure out Japanese and Chinese input
- Figure out why tmux isn't working the same as on Mac
- Find a good timer app for work

#theWorkshop #x230 #ubuntu

Another difference is that I keep control-clicking stuff expecting a contextual menu to pop up, ha.

I'm porting my config files, which I had created on macOS. So far the biggest hurdle, as expected, is that the user homedir is under /User on mac and under /home in Linux. For some reason shortening it to ~ in .zshrc and so on isn't acceptable.

Will have to think how to deal with that before pushing the updated version to github.

#theWorkshop

The keyboard on the ThinkPad is really really nice. Much more pleasing to type on than the one on my Macbook.

Giving a try to i3 now. Feels like I'll need to spend some time customising it, but it might better suit my needs (and the low-res screen) than Gnome.

One lesson learned is that settings don't necessarily carry over from one WM to another, which makes sense. For example, I remapped my CapsLock key to Ctrl under Gnome, but this doesn't apply under i3.

#theWorkshop

What IMAP client do people recommend for Linux? I use MailMate on my mac and I'm very happy with that.

Hello this is my first "toot" from Ubuntu on my X230!

It is on! #theWorkshop

This seems to say that libgphoto2 supports tethered capture with the Fujifilm GFX 50S (our aforementioned big-ass medium format camera). That's good news! https://github.com/gphoto/libgphoto2/issues/133

I think that last part will be the biggest challenge. Having software fail on you during a stressful, time-sensitive shoot is NOT FUN, and it will be hard to beat Capture One. Let's see.