Day 76

A month on our bicycles, unsupported, spanning the entire isle of Great Britain. Three countries. Five major cities. Tens of thousands of feet of incline. 800ish miles. Literally millions of sheep. If you missed the previous post, you can find Part 5 here. In this post, we'll travel from some tiny horses we met in...

I’ve been iterating on my portfolio for the last few days whilst desperately applying for a bunch of gigs and last night I finally got it into a good place. I’m not sure why it took so dang long but some problems are just stubborn and take forever to figure out. Here’s the before and after: It’s certainly not...

Installation Linux Follow the instructions here for your distribution, I strongly recommend using the server instructions and not using Docker Desktop. I’ll explain further down below why that is. Windows/OSX You’ll want to grab Docker Desktop for these systems as they don’t natively support Docker. Don’t worry...

TL;DR: Sometimes Emacs needs a timeout A diamond is very pretty. But it is very hard to add to a diamond. A ball of mud is not so pretty. But you can always add more mud to a ball of mud. – Gerald Sussman, paraphrasing Joel Moses A common problem with Emacs’ giant ball of shared state: Any code can step on the feet...