Hi welcome to my site, I originally won it in a programming contest  while at uni and have kept it running since to show work i am doing on various small projects in my spare time and to share some of my thoughts opinions and ideas

Places of interest

• Projects I am working on – https://simotek.net/tech/projects/
• Thoughts experiences and Ideas about technology – https://simotek.net/tech/articles/
• Thoughts and ideas about life – https://simotek.net/life/

Today I'm happy to release the first version of my theme converter script (0.1.0) along with a alpha version of my light theme...

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Generally i use several terminals at the same time, generally one per project or task, i've always been annoyed that i either loose history or it becomes hard to find so i created hiset (history set) pronounced hi-set. It allows you to easily assign a history per shell sessions and then manage the multiple history files . More...

Enlightenment e18 (18.2) and Terminology 0.4.0 are now available on openSUSE. Those who pay attention will have noticed it there for a couple of weeks, but now the openSUSE theme and profile should be working and i don't think i will be breaking anything again anytime soon... More...

Hi all, as one of the enlightenment maintainers on openSUSE i thought i'd give you all a quick review / tour / how to for enlightenment on openSUSE. The version of Enlightenment shipping with openSUSE 13.1 is 17.3 with version 1.7.8 of the enlightenment foundation libraries, this was the most stable release at the time of the feature freeze. If you would like to help us test later versions i wrote about the current plans for our testing repo's on obs here the other day... More...

With Enlightenment e18 now in alpha its time to look at packaging it for factory so i’m going to outline our grand plans so that you can be aware of what is going on and help us with testing, while alpha packages are now out initially we aren’t packaging them formally, we already have regular [&hellip More...

I decided to create this theme for 2 reasons, firstly i thought it might be a bit of fun, but mostly because i think for enlightenment to be integrated into openSUSE by default it should look and feel like the rest of openSUSE. Of course to continue like enlightenment although by default we should match [&hellip More...

Hi all, here is a quick update on whats going on for enlightenment on openSUSE, firstly we now have a working profile, it could do with some enhancements still, i would have liked to get a desktop and laptop profile the later with the backlight and battery monitor unfortunately i haven’t worked out how to [&hellip More...

Almost a year ago, i wrote a post having updated the site i said that i’d write another post soon and that i’d try and get the theme for this site up to a polish-able standard. This hasn’t happened for a couple of reasons, mainly that i have taken on a lot of the maintainership [&hellip More...

Due to a lack of time and not having a computer available to work on projects all the time i started writing a couple of articles. I found, however, that the theme i was using on this site was not well suited to large chunks of text. I also always would have liked this theme [&hellip More...

So ive been getting a fair bit of spam of late around 1500 comments when i logged on tonight so as a result i’ve taken the ability to comment off most of the site except this  post for now. In other news i have just started work on another project dispite having a full time [&hellip More...