Short Story — “What’s your name?” “I’m Jess, what’s yours?” “Rake.” He shared his handle. He was indeed ‘impressed’ by her. “Say, are you interested in lock picking?” Smiling, she said, “I am, but not as you wish. I mostly rake my way through everything these days.” “These days?” he said. “I’ll show…

Dark Ambience music album — Heavy is an Ambient Music album by Ekin Fil. I listened to this album during the pandemic and liked the sense of heaviness and dark ambience it produced when I listened to it completely. It does produce a sense of being present in a dark forest as the album cover suggests. Highlights My highlights for this album are: Aeter Still Numbers Over You Let Me In Heavy Aeter, Still Numbers and Over You are the first tracks on the album. Let Me In and Heavy when listened to one after the other, give a sense of what to expect from the whole album.

Surveillance has no end and no purpose — Short Review The Conversation (1974) presents the implications of 1974’s surveillance industry in the life of an operator. It’s a story with regret and treason as the main topics. This story ultimately demonstrates that surveillance only serves the interests of the powerful and brings ruin to everyone involved in it. The thought…

Prose Poetry Collection — ‘Under New Light’ is a poetry collection which deals with presence, present and sharing ideas. To write these thoughts, I lie for a moment and tell I care more for fiction than reality, which is not the case. This collection represents 12 years of work. It is inspired by failure…

To sort text lines with VIM you first select the lines you wish to sort with visual mode and then sort them. To execute this task follow the following steps: Place the cursor on the first line you wish to sort. Move the cursor down into the last line you wish to sort. Press: Shift + ; Write the word sort. Press enter. Now these lines should be sorted out in alphabetical order. Originally published at https://streamofletters.xyz.

When working with a Debian Linux Desktop it is ideal to install the ‘vim-gtk3’ package instead of the ‘vim’ package because the first includes the ‘copy to clipboard’ feature. The ‘vim’ package left out this feature on purpose to be used on servers, because most servers do not use a GUI. You may test your current VIM version and clipboard feature with the following command: vim --version | grep clipboard

Fiction & non-fiction — These are books I have read and do recommend. All of these books form part of my library. Do write back with a comment for further recommendations. Fiction Arthur Conan Doyle — Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Collection Arthur Conan Doyle — The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Rimbaud — Illuminations Dashiell Hammett — The…

A look back to digital art & prose poetry — From approximately 2019 onwards I published prose poetry on Medium and digital art on Instagram. However, on 2023 I decided to focus on technology instead of creative endeavors. These examples showcase work done from 2019 until 2023. Prose Poetry During the pandemic I wrote and published a stream of thoughts and poems…

Associate folders with actions — When configuring a smartphone homescreen, it is easier to organize apps by folders named with verbs. This helps me navigate to what I want to do faster than using the default categories. The first time I read about this, was on Life Hacker’s website back in 2012 and have been working like this ever since. References Life Hacker Originally published at https://streamofletters.xyz.