🧑 csmertx

CSx is a hobby website with a little bin of fun mixed in with a little bit of documentation.

Likes: Pork Cutlets

The donation button for this website redirects to the 🔗 Wounded Warrior Project

This website is not an affiliated with the Wounded Warrior Project

My father dedicated over 20 years of his life to the military (Navy), which included a year long tour of Vietnam. He suffered through at least one fused vertebrae. Military (Jacksonville, FL) said it wasn’t their problem. That’s why I am the way I am. And that’s why I’ve included the link.

If anyone has an issue with the donation button please contact me.

Also: Da Bears, and Da Cubs (*__* 2016)

• 🔗 Hugo: minimal javascript, portable, accountable via Git, and low maintenance.

• 🔗 Preview of the Hugo Geekdocs theme

  This website is based on a 2022 version of GeekDocs

• 🔗 Github | thegeeklab/hugo-geekdoc

Linux-ing for over ten years, and have been typing random things into computer prompts since 1989 (39y)

csmertx = Christopher Schammert + x

• I like the U.S. Constitution. Registered as an Independent.

I’ve seen enough to make me skeptical that it all just ends.

• My bad, and thank you for all the hard work both downstream and upstream!

Some have YouTube channels

• 🔗 SS64

• 🔗 Learn Linux TV

• 🔗 Linuxize

• 🔗 AskUbuntu

• 🔗 Tecmint

• 🔗 ItsFOSS

• 🔗 nixCraft

• 🔗 Linux Mint Forums

• 🔗 Ubuntu: The Linux command line for beginners

• 🔗 Techspot: A Beginner’s Guide to the Linux Command Line

All have YouTube channels (50K+ subscribers)

• 🔗 Tux Digital (Destination Linux)

• 🔗 Jupiter Broadcasting

My distro hopping

• 🔗 Linux Mint w/Cinnamon (2013 - 2016)

  Also a few Ubuntu 🔗 ‘flavors’

  Dual booted Windows 7

• 🔗 Debian 9 w/Gnome 3 (2017 - 2018)

• 🔗 Manjaro i3wm (2018 - 2019)

• 🔗 Arch Linux w/i3wm, w/BSPWM, and KDE (2018 - 2020)

• 🔗 Ubuntu 20.04 (2020 - 2022)

• 🔗 Kubuntu (2022 - Present)

  • Very gamer friendly w/Steam installed and configured with 🔗 Proton

ᐳ Cobbled together with single threaded Bash scripts

• 🔗 Imgur.com | Fear and Loathing on the Arch Linux Trail (2018)

  Most of my pet Bash scripting projects sprung from this virtual journey

Aliases for this website that are also in my $HOME/.bashrc

• apti

  sudo aptitude install X

  Install software package X

• aptr

  sudo aptitude remove X

  Remove software package X

• apts

  sudo aptitute search X

  Search for software package X

• sudof

  ~/.scripts/sudof (Script that extends find command)

• sudov

  sudo vim X

  Open doc X in Vim as superuser

• sudor

  sudo ranger

  🔗 Python based TUI file manager

• sudoc

  sudo chmod +X

  script becomes executable

• bashrc

  vim ~/.bashrc

  Edit .bashrc with Vim

• bashsrc

  source ~/.bashrc

  Include edits to .bashrc in current shell)

• bashhis

  vim ~/.bash_history

  Open .bash_history with Vim

• TUI

  • Terminal User Interface

• GUI

  • Graphical User Interface

• AUR

  • Arch Linux User Repository (User supported and maintained repositories)

• paci

  sudo pacman -S X

  Install software package X

• pacr

  sudo pacman -R X

  Remove software package X

• tri

  • Trizen: 🔗 Perl based AUR package manager

• yay

  • Yay: 🔗 Go based AUR package manager

Skateboarding is a part of my identity. And the videos are full of great music too.

• How skate decks are made (before bamboo and or carbon fiber skateboard decks):

  • 🔗 Transworld Skateboarding: Skateboard Science

• The ‘Godfather’ of street skating and kickflip imaginer:

  • 🔗 Networth Post | Rodney Mullen’s net worth (~)

• Rodney Mullen spoke of Open Source and Linux in his TED Talk:

  • 🔗 YouTube | Pop an ollie and innovate! (Ted Talk)

• Skateboarding Stereotypes

  • Speaking of stereos. Jason Lee (My Name Is Earl, Mallrats, etc.) is a professional skateboarder, actor, filmmaker, and photographer that rode for Blind Skateboards, and founded Stereo Skateboards.

• Moonwalking with Einstein, by Joshua Foer

  About the limitless potential of memory

• Hidden Figures, by Margot Lee Shetterly

  History lesson of how we broke through the atmosphere

• The Philosopher and the Druids, by Philip Freeman

  History lesson of the Druids from the viewpoint of Posidonius

• NeuroTribes, by Steve Silberman

  The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

• Improve Your Social Skills, by Daniel Wendler

  Introduction to building sandwiches

• The Open Organization, by Jim Whitehurst CEO, Red Hat

  Igniting Passion and Performance (🔗 Red Hat Linux)

• Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell

  Extraordinary tales of extraordinary people

• Start Finishing, by Charlie Gilkey

  How to finish that one thing

• Atomic Habits, by James Clear

  How to build positive habits

• Escape from Cubicle Nation, by Pamela Slim

  Great for creativity or understanding the world of cubicles

• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, by Mark Manson

  Explicit, leans to evolution, and very insightful