🐑 Programming Wisdom

I3/Sway plugin containing programming wisdom to meditate over during long coding sessions.

Overview

Programming Wisdom is a simple snippet for various tiling wm bar plugins which displays excerpts, proverbs, quotes and other wisdoms from across programming spectrum, based on 600+ assorted texts. Currently supported plugins:

• polybar
• waybar
• i3blocks

Installation

Download programming_wisdom script

curl -o programming_wisdom https://raw.githubusercontent.com/exaroth/programming-wisdom/main/programming_wisdom

Make it executable:

chmod +x programming_wisdom

And put it in the location of your choice

Usage

polybar

    [module/programming-wisdom]
    type = custom/script
    exec = /path/to/programming_wisdom
    tail = true

waybar

    "custom/programming-wisdom": {
        "escape": "true",
        "exec": "/path/to/programming_wisdom",
        "max-length": 60,
        "min-length": 60
    }

i3blocks

    [PROGRAMMING_WISDOM]
    command=SNIPPET_OUTPUT_PANGO=1 /path/to/programming_wisdom
    color=#959692
    interval=persist
    markup=pango

Configuration

Snippet can be configured by passing various env vars to the script, most straightforward way to do it is to pass them as a prefix when calling the executable, eg.

ENV_VAR=val /path/to/programming_wisdom

Available settings:

• SNIPPET_INTERVAL - Defines how often to swap quotes (in seconds) (default: 10 minutes)
• SNIPPET_DELAY - Refresh interval when outputting text (default 6)
• SNIPPET_WIDTH - Width of the snippet (default 60)
• SNIPPET_ALIGN - Set text alignment when outputting text, available values: left, right, center (default left)
• SNIPPET_SHOW_AUTHOR - Set whether to print author as part of the snippet output, available values: 0/1
• SNIPPET_OUTPUT_PANGO - Output text in pango format (with monospace font set), 0/1

License

See LICENSE file for details