Hi there! I’m Popa Ioan Alexandru (aka ALEX11BR or other nicks), a 21-year-old guy from Romania who’s trying to find meaning in life using computers.

I have various projects, mostly computer-related, but not only. I also have a resume.

My latest posts

I try here to maintain a blog, which even has a RSS feed.

Gxhk, a special X hotkey daemon made by me

gxhk, which stands for Go X hotkey (daemon), is an application that I made. It is a hotkey daemon for X, something in the vein of sxhkd, if you know what it is (if not, then this app is not for you, probably). When hotkeys (such as Alt+F1) get pressed (or released), the user can run various commands with the help of the hotkey daemon. My hotkey daemon has some unique features: it can be configured on the fly using a socket (similarly to bspwm for those who know it 😉) to listen to certain hotkeys and execute their commands, or to stop listening to some hotkeys, or show infos about the currently grabbed hotkeys and their associated commands. This app works only on Linux & friends, on X desktops (not on Wayland). ...

ThemeChanger, my first serious linux deskop app

ThemeChanger is an application that I made, one of my more ambitious projects so far. It is made for linux systems (and it should work on other friends like BSDs), and it does what it says: it changes themes. It is made to work with various desktop environments or none at all. While there is similar app called lxappearance which is also a GUI theme changer, my app has a bunch of extra features. ...

Goodbye, Jekyll! Welcome, Hugo!

If you’re seeing this, this site is now running with Hugo. When I first started using Github Pages, I used Jekyll as a static site generator. It had the advantage of being very easy to get up and running: just create a repo in which you put the markdown files you want to turn into web pages, with other eventual raw HTML you might have, commit, push, and voila, you have a working website. ...