Posts on Austin Wilcox

Syncing My RetroArch Game Saves From My Phone to My Steam Deck

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0700

Syncing My RetroArch Game Saves From My Phone to My Steam Deck

I play retro games on both my iPhone and my Steam Deck, and I got tired of my saves being stuck on whichever device I last played on. RetroArch doesn’t have a built-in cloud sync, so I needed to come up with something myself.

My solution was to use a git repository to sync saves between the two devices.

I wanted to love Logseq

Sun, 26 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0700

I wanted to love Logseq

I tried off and on for all of 2024 to use Logseq for my second brain, and I couldn’t make it work.

For the last month I made the full migration off Obsidian and onto Logseq, and it was a really smooth transition… at first. But ultimately, it all came down to one big decision for me. Mobile.

Logseqs mobile application just couldn’t cut it for me. It’s a very slimmed down version of the desktop application and missed a couple of key features for a note taking application that I take on the go.

Common URLs

Sun, 29 Dec 2024 21:39:00 -0700

Common Urls

These are some of the common urls that I find myself navigating to.

I have this page setup in my blogs right now because I want to be able to use vimium all around to navigate to everything, and tabliss currently will not work with vimium, so having a simple blog post page with these urls makes sense.

Personal Growth

I have found a handful of people that I can gain a lot of insight from, here is a small list of those.

Switching To Miryoku

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 22:35:17 -0600

Switching to Miryoku

I used the Miryoku layout for just over a month, and I’m impressed!

Back in 2021, I started my ergonomic keyboard journey with a ZSA Moonlander. I had done a lot of research on keyboards and found this one to be the best for portability and ergonomics (I was working hybrid at the time). I would recommend this keyboard to anyone, and frankly, any keyboard from ZSA for that matter. At that same time I switched my keyboard layout from QWERTY to Colemak-DH. After a couple of years with the Moonlander, I 3D printed and hand-wired a 5x6 Dactyl Manuform, which has been my daily driver keyboard for the last couple of years. It addresses all the ergonomic needs I felt were missing from the Moonlander, mainly the wells for your fingers to rest in. That slight decrease in finger movement really makes a difference in long typing sessions.

My thoughts on Vimium

Sun, 22 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

My thoughts on Vimium

Vimium is a browser extension that allows you to navigate the browser with vim-like commands.

I have been using it starting early 2023, and needless to say, I am very impressed! The intuitive keybindings match very well to vim making navigating the web from a keyboard pleasant. Especially when I’m on the go using a laptop, I don’t need to use the track pad as heavily.

Commands I use

Here is a compiled list of the commands that I find myself using most often, and what their function is.

Sensible Deletion Remapping for Vim

Fri, 13 Oct 2023 22:12:07 -0600

Sensible Deletion remapping for Vim

I often find myself in this scenario:

var testVar = "Hello World!";

Imagine that my cursor is on the !. I want to delete all the text within the double quotes. If I was at the beginning of the text at H, I could run (in Normal mode) dt" and that would delete all the text in the double quotes. Now if I want to delete from ! back, I could run dT", but there is one problem with that. Here is what is remaining:

Tmux Tips

Fri, 13 Oct 2023 22:12:07 -0600

Tmux Tips

I have been an avid Tmux user since 2021, and I don’t know that I could work without it. Tmux is a powerful terminal multiplexer, allowing you to open up mutiple terminals in a single window. My current workflow revolves around using tmux for running processes, sshing into machines, and editing text/code.

I even went as far as to write my own tmux session manager Disconnected that automates the startup of tmux sessions for me by using a json file to craft the tmux session.

Git Commit Mistakes

Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:12:02 -0700

Git Commit Mistakes

Let’s say you are working on a feature improvement on the staging branch, and after you have completed your work you go to commit it and after writing your commit message and pressing enter, you remember that you can’t push to the staging branch directly and you need to create a feature branch to push your changes to the repository.

I have made this mistake way to often, and it is frustrating remembering what you need to do to fix it. Here is my approach at fixing the issue.

Using Podman on Arco Linux

Sat, 01 Oct 2022 15:31:42 -0600

Using Podman on Arco Linux

My scenario for using podman at first was due to not being allowed to use docker due to their licensing, and my company being over the threshhold for using docker without purchasing a license, and my company wasn’t interested in purchasing docker, as I was the only developer interested in placing my local database in a docker container, more later as to why I want it off of my computer and just in a container.

Vim Tip 1

Fri, 02 Sep 2022 15:32:09 -0600

Vim Tip 1

Welcome to vim tips, where I publish a blog post weekly with a tip on vim that I have found useful.

I stumbled onto one today that had some use. I wanted to wrap several lines of text in a paragraph tag. The text can look something like this:

This is the first line
This is the second line
This is the third line
This is the four line

So I hit V (Shift+v) in normal mode, and highligted those four lines. Next I hit : which brings me into command mode on a selection of text.