# BlogEtcetera: Thoughts on this, that and the rest

> BlogEtcetera is a blog with no fixed lane — culture, productivity, and everything in between, written for curious minds\.

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## Pages
- [Home](https://www.blogetcetera.com/)
- [About](https://www.blogetcetera.com/about/)
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.blogetcetera.com/privacy-policy/)

## Posts
- [The Search for Markdown Viewer is Over](https://www.blogetcetera.com/2026/the-search-for-markdown-viewer-is-over/)
- [Why XFCE Makes Windows Optional](https://www.blogetcetera.com/2026/why-xfce-makes-windows-optional/): Windows isn't the default anymore\. Xfce is fast, familiar, and finally polished — running it on Fedora's bleeding\-edge spin, coming off years of i3, and I haven't noticed a single performance hit\.
- [Mosaferín\-e Mohtaram](https://www.blogetcetera.com/2026/mosaferin-e-mohtaram/): A story of a return to Kabul after decades away — through ordinary moments that carried unexpected weight, and a country that was both exactly as she remembered and entirely changed\.
- [How to Conditionally Sum and Group Data with awk](https://www.blogetcetera.com/2026/how-to-conditionally-sum-and-group-data-with-awk/): One line\. No spreadsheet, no database, no extra dependencies\.
Save pandas and NumPy for when you actually need a DataFrame\. For this? awk just showed up and did the job\.
- [How to Fix i3 Workspace Assignment Failing for LibreOffice \(Startup Race Condition\)](https://www.blogetcetera.com/2026/solving-the-i3-startup-race-why-assign-fails-for-libreoffice/)

## Categories
- [Technology](https://www.blogetcetera.com/category/technology/)
- [Afghanistan](https://www.blogetcetera.com/category/afghanistan/)
- [Reflections](https://www.blogetcetera.com/category/reflections/)
- [Life \& Culture](https://www.blogetcetera.com/category/life-culture/)
- [Travel](https://www.blogetcetera.com/category/travel/)

## Tags
- [politics](https://www.blogetcetera.com/tag/politics/)
- [linux](https://www.blogetcetera.com/tag/linux/)
- [society](https://www.blogetcetera.com/tag/society/)
- [foreign\-policy](https://www.blogetcetera.com/tag/foreign-policy/)
- [programming](https://www.blogetcetera.com/tag/programming/)

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