I am Ishe Chinyoka, a “Textsmith” based in Zimbabwe.
To many, the computer is a mystery box of icons and menus. To me, it is a forge. I believe that text is the most resilient, accessible, and powerful medium we have. Whether I am preparing presentations for conferences, writing research papers or configuring a mail server in the terminal, my goal is the same: Digital Sovereignty.
My Tools
- The Hammer: Vim (and occasionally a refined stream editing with sed and awk).
- The Steel: Plaintext (Markdown, Typst, AsciiDoc).
- The Equalizer: The Linux Terminal with the Orca Screen-reader in the desktop environment, or Espeakup and Fenrir in the virtual console.
I don’t just use technology; I strike it until it takes the shape I need.
About this blog
This blog is an expression of my interest in text-processing and what it can do to enhance and promote productivity.
It was set up as a labour of love and not to score high in search engine rankings. As a result, this is more of a portal for terminal enthusiasts who seek to exchange ideas on how to achieve certain things in the terminal.
Because of that, I post when I have something to say and when I have the time. Nevertheless, I understand that it has to be relevant to what it was set up for. For that reason, I regularly research on new markup languages, alternative ways to do certain things with plain text and so on.
Thank you for visiting this site, I hope you are going to find what you had been looking for.