Writing about Mapping, Spatial Analysis and Tech from Bloomington, Indiana
Fuzzel, a popular Linux app-launcher and menu building tool on Linux has recently released version 1.13. While Fuzzel may be best known as an app launcher, it's a popular choice for building little menus. See What's Fuzzel Good For? for examples. In the 1.
On Linux, Control-C and Control-V don't work for copying and pasting in terminals. The Control modifier is used for its original purpose of inserting control codes. Instead, terminal apps require an extra Shift modifier, like Control+Shift+C. But what if there were hidden shortcut combos
Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana included in their 2010 master plan an expensive and ambitious plan to extend Law Lane. The plan specified that the updated Law Lane should include bike lanes and off-street pedestrian sidewalks. A 2020 update to the master plan added detailed plans. The angled parking
Last year, a pedestrian was struck crossing Law Lane at Fee Lane in Bloomington, Indiana. Was this a one-off accident, or has there been a pattern of crashes at that intersection? Are there changes that could be made to improve pedestrian safety in the area? I took a deep
Over the last 20 years there were more deer involved in collisions with vehicles in Monroe County, Indiana than either pedestrians or cyclists. Here's a heatmap of the areas with the highest rates of deer-involved crashes from 2003-2022 around Bloomington. Best viewed on a desktop monitor.
How to perform four different methods of intersection crash analysis. Compares how and why the results differ.
Checking email can be a big distraction when I just want to send an email and move on. If I have new unread e-mails, I may not want to know about them until after I've finished focusing on sending out a new message. Thankfully, a number of
Fuzzel is a Wayland-native app launcher and fuzzy finder for Linux, inspired by Rofi and dmenu. The five-year-old Fuzzel project recently had a feature-packed 1.11 release. Here's a visual rundown of what's new. Instant filtering of huge lists Fuzzel can now
Last updated: August, 2025 Rofi is a popular window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement for Linux. dmenu was a tiny text-only utility to display a list of lines of text and select one. The dmenu design follows the Unix philosophy to "do one thing well". Simple!
My split, ergonomic Corne keyboard is great. I love pairing with a trackball in-between the halves: For comparison, a Boardsource Unicorne with a Kensington Expert trackball and MT3 Susuwatari keycaps. Custom cable by Mechcables But what if you took the two halves of this split keyboard, jammed them together
Given limited funds for building and repair sidewalks, where the's optimal place to find them? Ideally, we'd like to factor in the potential demand for the sidewalk, how it might improve safety, and equity. The solution should be comprehensive– considering all locations in a city.
Fuzzel is a rofi alternative for Wayland. It's a versatile picker and launcher utility for desktop Linux. The last time I gave an update on Fuzzel was when 1.8 released which compared it to some altenatives. Let's look at some recent feature additions since then.
Ann Arbor, Michigan got a lot right in their efforts to build out their sidewalk network in an objective and equitable way. More funding: a larger pie First, they not only considered how to slice a funding pie more fairly, they raised money for a much larger pie of funding
You've got a plan to build out a 100 miles of of additional bike facilities. Which ones should you build first to make the biggest impact? In addition to all the metrics that would usually apply to bike lane planning, now there are a few others that are
Here's how I set up my keybindings for the Sway window manager for Linux. Most of the tips here would apply to any keyboard, but let's get one detail out of the way first that's specific to 40% keyboards like the Corne. It doesn&