Luke's Videos

I am totally purging my daily life from all use of restaurants. Call it a New Year's Resolution. I can't even go to a restaurant without feeling ripped off at this point, so I am rejecting the modernity of restaurants and embracing the tradition o...

Justin Murphy invited me to California for a weekend to do that interview that we've been meaning to do since 4 years ago! We talk about why I left academia, epistemological anarchism, Orthodoxy Christianity, the Enlightenment and lots of question...

This is how GNU/Unix chads do bookmarking.

The modern lifestyle, with boring and fake jobs and soycial media, people spend lots of idle time in idle fantasy. This is the source of many bad habits and evils, unironically. To get the Jordanville Prayer book, which I mentioned, go here: ht...

If you want your computing to be as efficient as possible, you should have as little as possible. Here I plan downsizing and ask for a way to do everything more efficiently. Is there actually a decent computer with a trackpoint, ultrabase or dock ...

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We cover Hugo shortcodes and the basics of using them and Hugo commands to create scriptable sections of your site. We cover range for for-loops, site variables and page variables, including titles, summaries, date formatting, word count, reading ...

My first ever appearance in HiDef video. This is an interview of me by Crypto Vigilante at Monerotopia 2022. Unfortunately, the recording cut off the last part of our interview that was the most interesting: on the chance of replacing Proof of ...

Hugo will allow you to create optimal website, but we shall overcome the "Hugo Hump" in this video. You gotta understand how templates and themes were before you get into the really impactful stuff. I still do explain partials, shortcodes and o...

Some more on the false idol of the "good tech job." A follow-up to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJeR1pJKP6E My website: https://lukesmith.xyz Classical books reprinted by me: https://lindypress.net Get all my videos off YouTube: https://...

Owning property isn't just about yourself. It's about providing a place over generations for the support of your family. It is easiest to do this starting on cheap country land. Don't sweat property taxes and other things, those complaints are mor...

I answer this question within 1 second of video playtime. My website: https://lukesmith.xyz Classical books reprinted by me: https://lindypress.net Get all my videos off YouTube: https://videos.lukesmith.xyz or Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/i...

00:00 Solving ALL Issues and PRs 03:33 LARBS and my dotfiles (https://larbs.xyz and https://github.com/lukesmithxyz/voidrice) 08:05 LandChad.net and Based. Cooking 12:26 Suckless Software: dwm, st, dmenu, dwmblocks 15:17 mutt-wizard (https://gi...

After some annoyances, I decided to make my life easier by switching Based. Cooking over to using Hugo, a static site generator written in Go which has tagging abilities and other niceties. Not only has it made the site easier to maintain, but I've...

https://github.com/lukesmithxyz/shadowchat

Country living pushes you to be more financially independent, while urban living pushes you to be more dependent on companies, banks, land-owners and creature comforts. My website: https://lukesmith.xyz Classical books reprinted by me: https:/...

You are doing yourself a serious disservice by being provoked to anger and passions constantly, day in and day out. Agitation propaganda is all over the place and the goal is to reduce you to a reactive and defeatist shell of a man. My website:...

Email me if you are in South Georgia or North Florida and would be interested in attending Orthodox services in Valdosta, GA or another town in north Florida: luke@lukesmith.xyz I'll be talking about my experience more in livestreams or other v...

Original recording of the presentation: https://videos.lukesmith.xyz/w/bRDpwJuQPG52PNhyYrNsP2

Raw footage from Monerotopia. It missed my introductory jokes 😦 (also the audience's laugh track, so be sure to laugh when you deem appropriate).

I HATE THE ANTICHRIST! I had played this video at Monerotopia for the audience to show how phone metadata publicly propagates, but the lighting was bad, so I'll add it here.

Don't blame me! Soyence tells me I'm just an NPC! See the original video: https://videos.lukesmith.xyz/w/ts7vvbtonF7US9mHLksDwY

My dotfiles including my lf configuration: https://github.com/lukesmithxyz/voidrice The lf repository: https://github.com/gokcehan/lf

If you hecking love science you might've fallen for the meme of Giordano Bruno's "persecution" by the Church. This was a myth passed around in anti-Catholic Protestant circles for a while, but now has become a classic internet atheist forced-mem...