Trey Blancher - discursions (Page 6)

Initial Thoughts on Arch Linux

Oct 2, 2015 2 min read Arch Linux

About a month or so ago, I decided to give Arch Linux a whirl. Debian hadn’t let me down, but I’ve been using Debian as my primary workstation OS for about

Crawfish Recipe

Mar 16, 2015 4 min read Cajun

Here I've transcribed my father's crawfish recipe. The original link still exists (Dad's crawfish recipe), but he hasn't updated the site in almost a decade.

Colorizing messages in mutt (stab 2)

Sep 28, 2014 3 min read

This image shows the different scores (“[1000]” scores red background, “[800]” magenta text, etc.). At work I use a slightly different set. I think I got it, at least in the index (for

Colorizing messages in mutt index

Sep 23, 2014 4 min read colors

I’d heard a long time that if I’m a self-respecting Linux or UNIX geek I should use a terminal-based email client. My options are Alpine and mutt, and it seemed that

Backup WordPress Files and Database

Jun 6, 2014 1 min read backup

I’ve been meaning to create a backup of my WordPress [http://wordpress.org] files and databases on my VPS (ChunkHost [http://chunkhost.com]). After a minimal amount of digging (on WordPress’s