Creating a post in a jekyll-powered blog is pretty straightforward. Just create a file in markdown format and put your post in. Every post has a special YAML Front Matter block with some variables. Using a bash script we can easily generate this file with proper values for the YAML variables. For example, for this post, the filename contains the post date and title.

To get a nice clean buffer bar at the bottom of the screen you need the buffers.pl script.

Say you got a file’s last update time, using the stat command

>>> import os
>>> disk_ts = os.stat('filename').st_ctime
>>> disk_ts
1303113637.0

You can find here the Archlinux presentation I made with Evangelos Balaskas at Openfest 2011.

I recently found a thread in ubuntu forums that explained how to get a gnome-like volume indicator in Xfce.