How to automate your movies and tv shows downloads using Linux and torrents

Regularly downloading TV shows and movies via torrent can become tedious and monotonous task. Having to track the airing date of every show, and going every week to you favorite tracker and…

Simple twitter image bot in Python

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There’s an updated version of this same bot. It is not so simple anymore in code, though for the user it is even easier to use: all configurations are now handled externally, which means that you don’t even have to modify lines…

Vim and system clipboard in Arch

There’s something that has always anoyed me when using vim: I couldn’t seem to access to the system’s clipboard. Copy (or yank) would work great as long as I didn’t try to copy something outside of vim. This, of course, is a problem. After a long time of simply trying to…

CMus data on i3bar with i3status

Wanna see what song and artist CMus is playing in your i3bar? Although i3status doesn’t support the execution of external scripts, there’s a simple workaround to this: use your own shell to add information to i3status.

Vimperator tips and tricks

Vimperator can be an extremely useful addon for Firefox, specially if you are already a vim user or if you are striving to be one. But it can be a little bit of a mess for newbies. Here I try to compile some of the tips I have found online over the time I’ve been using Vimperator.

Imagemagick’s convert: ‘Aborted (core dumped)’ with Catalyst

I had this problem with Imagemagick’s convert program after I installed Catalyst on my Arch 64 bits system. The solution was pretty straightforward. Simply delete all the files in the Imagemagick configuration folder.

rm ~/.config/ImageMagick/*