Hey, I’m Jonatan Wincent

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I’m a third year student at the Masters of Science Programme in Computing Science and Engineering at Umeå University. Some of my biggest interests are software development, Linux, motorcycling, snowmobiling and learning new things.

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On this website I intend to document different projects that I work on and share my thoughts about them. I will also post images that I take on the pictures page.

Visit my GitHub profile to view the source code for this page and all of my other projects.

(updated 2024-11-01)

Build package from Nixpkgs PR

This post aims to explain how to build and try packages from nixpkgs pull requests. You might for example want to try a new package that has not been merged yet or try some bug fixes. There are multiple ways of doing this, below are two different methods. In both cases we first need to clone nixpkgs and navigate into this directory git clone [email protected]:NixOS/nixpkgs.git cd nixpkgs nix-build This approach is better if you want to install and use the package for a while....

Keyboard

I am planing to build a custom split, ergonomic, ortholinear, curved keyboard like the dactyl manuform or charybdis. My keyboard has been configured with the beta version of the Cosmos keyboard configurator found here. I will update this page as my plans change and when I have built it. Configuration Right half Left half Components 2 Pro Micro USB-C Controller 62 Kailh Choc Switches 60 1u Kailh Choc Keycaps 2 1u Homing Kailh Choc Keycaps Cirque 40 mm Trackpad Wire for Trackpad OLED 0....

DWM (Dynamic Window Manager)

“dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X.” - suckless.org This post talks about my dwm configuration and the changes I have made to it. I have installed quite a few patches and made some modifications of my own, I have also added a flake.nix to make installation on NixOS really simple. You can view the source code in my GitHub repository here. Patches Below is a list of all the patches I have installed with a short explanation of each patch, click the links to view the patches on suckless....

TKL keyboard with keys removed and moved around

Keyboard Layouts

My many attempts at creating a more optimal keyboard layout for my self. So far all of the layouts have been used on a normal TKL keyboard, but with the latest layouts the goal has been to create a layout that would work on a Charybdis by Bastard Keyboards. See the cover picture for how the keys have been moved around to make the latest layout work on a normal keyboard....

St (simple terminal)

“st is a simple terminal implementation for X” - suckless.org. This is my configuration of the suckless terminal st. I have installed a few different patches and made some configuration changes to improve the usability and look of the terminal. Try My Config To try my configuration on any system with Nix installed run the following: nix run github:jonwin1/st-jonwin Patches Srollback: Allow scrolling back through the terminal output using keybinds or the mouse wheel....