Contributing to LARBS and Surprised by DMENU

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So i absolute adore RMarkdown and recently i noticed a golden opportunity for me to contribute something to LARBS, this meta distribution of Arch Linux that i use and adore. I noticed that when compiling RMarkdown documents to pdf that the conversion through pandoc was very verbose and in Luke's compiler script that it simple runs an R function that renders the RMarkdown document that i looked into it and that function call in R has a quiet=TRUE option which reduced the verbose messaging from pandoc down to just 3 lines. I put in a pull request and these changes were merged into master within a few hours. it felt really good to actually be able to contribute something back to this system i use and love so much, as well as finally having a real code project where i was able to contribute code instead of just issues to a repo. I talk about this in my video HERE.

In some of my other videos i have shown myself launching applications in the terminal but shell scripts i wrote to launch and disown the parent processes from the terminal window. I had a youtube subscriber/person ask me why i didnt just use DMENU to launch the applications.... I didn't know you could do that... though i should have guessed... so i tried it, and it works for everything, i just activate DMENU and type the name of my program and it finds the executable nad run it. So much easier than my previous process.