Short posts on Void Linux, xmonad, Rust, and whatever else is on the workbench. By Wes Roberts.https://jchook.com/https://jchook.com/posts/the-physics-in-my-wallpaper/https://jchook.com/posts/the-physics-in-my-wallpaper/My desktop wallpaper is the Balmer series of hydrogen, recolored to gruvbox. Here's the actual math behind those six little bars — with a live Bohr model.Sun, 23 Aug 2026 20:20:00 GMTphysicsmathricehttps://jchook.com/posts/ranger-zoxide/https://jchook.com/posts/ranger-zoxide/ranger-zoxide lets you fuzzy-jump to any directory you've ever visited, from inside ranger. How it works and why it exists.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:42:00 GMTpythonclirangerlinuxhttps://jchook.com/posts/shhh/https://jchook.com/posts/shhh/I talk too loud on calls. shhh watches the mic and yells at me (quietly) when I do.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:15:00 GMTrustaudioclihttps://jchook.com/posts/void-xmonad-rice/https://jchook.com/posts/void-xmonad-rice/The parts list for my desktop: Void Linux, xmonad, kitty, polybar, and one palette to rule them all.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:05:00 GMTvoidxmonadricehaskelllinuxhttps://jchook.com/posts/rewait/https://jchook.com/posts/rewait/Every docker-compose setup eventually needs to wait for postgres. rewait waits for http, tcp, sockets, files, or any custom check.Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:30:00 GMTjavascriptclidockerhttps://jchook.com/posts/hngram/https://jchook.com/posts/hngram/An n-gram viewer over the entire Hacker News corpus. Watch 'crypto' rise and fall like an empire.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:55:00 GMTrustdatahn