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Sun Jul 20
Linkarzu had TJ DeVries, DistroTube, Gregory Anders and myself on a livestream to discuss Emacs Vs. Neovim on Friday night and it was a fantastic time. Teej and Greg are both core maintainers of Neovim, so it was interesting to see how...
One of my sporadic book reviews
Looking at Tzvetan Todorov's thoughts on the fantastic and poetry to be less categorical about literature.
Last year when I set up my new desk, one of the things I promised myself I’d do is make sure all the cables were properly managed. Now, I’ve been watching YouTubers for years show off their setups, and all of them appear to have no...
tutto ciò che scriverò nei seguenti paragrafi è soggettivo, non conosco come funzionino certe realtà nel dettaglio, è possibile che io mi stia pigliando cantonate giganti...
There are a lot of factors that create a memory or reputation. That's reflected in the saying that the winners write the history. Of course, the Lord God is the one whose opinion really counts, is it not? At the same time, we all want to...
Crossing the Menindee/Barka lake system you can perhaps make out the winding dry river bed It took Qantas about an hour and a half to whisk me home. I listened to a podcast about The Rose theatre and the playwrights at the turn of the...
Since I published the last Wait Wait Stats Updates three weeks ago, I have been working a number of updates to the Wait Wait Graphs Site and a couple of minor updates for the Wait Wait Stats Page and Wait Wait Reports Site.
Full post on the site
My partner and I took a walk at Powder Mill Park in upstate NY to look at the mushrooms and fish hatchery. While we were there, I came across the transmitter for a United States Geological Survey (USGS) stream gaging station—you can go...
Just a short little update because I have been quite silent on this blog the past few weeks. Currently, I am in between the two exam seasons after my second semester at uni. I still work part-time during the summer and obviously have to...
The problem Window management for GUI operating systems has been with us for decades, but it still feels a bit broken to me. Yes, everyone has their preferences and not everyone needs to run as many programs as I do at times, but there...
At reCAP, part of Code Connect 2025, I gave a talk on the cds REPL: "Gain a superpower by learning how to harness the cds REPL". You can watch the recording on the replay site; this post is a sort of summary and accompaniment, and an...
Despite eBay's claim, it isn't now "free to sell" for private sellers. Here's why.