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Hi there! Thanks for visiting my blog. It's still new and very much a work in progress. What I've been up to recently: Learning how to navigate Ubuntu ...

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how to create a custom application launcher in Ubuntu 24.04 (GNOME)

Download tarball and extract it into a directory (e.g. /opt/baba-is-you ) Create a desktop entry (e.g. baba-is-you.desktop) in ~/.local/share/applications or ~/Desktop Add the following to the desktop entry (change to match your application): [Desktop Entry] # Launches application Type=Application # Name of application Name=Baba Is You # Executable of application Exec=/opt/baba-is-you/run.sh #…

a rough start to my neovim journey

Let me be honest with you. I almost gave up on Neovim before I had even finished installing it. My first mistake was trying to install it using Homebrew on my 2015 MacBook Pro running macOS 12. Every time I run brew , I get a warning reminding me that they (and Apple) do not provide support for this old version. Nevertheless, I forged ahead, feeling hopeful. Homebrew tried to install Neovim and…