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A review of Leo Marx's thought to look at American views of technology, progress, and morality.
TL;DR The Bash language server is easy to install and has support for shfmt which in turn has support for Editorconfig settings. For shell scripts without extensions, Editorconfig is no good, except if you use shfmt's special support in...
Fly away now the half moon be your witness and carry boast of the hope you wanted killed
Currently, “AI agents” like Claude Code are all the rage for software development. These programs facilitate feeding context into LLMs directly from your codebase and environment by empowering the LLM to read/write files and run...
A melancholy anniversary today – that of the death, in 1997, of Diana, Princess of Wales. I remember lying in bed that night, dozing and following the barely believable story as it unfolded on the BBC World Service. It was clear from the...
Soy muy aficionado a probar todo lo que encuentro en la tienda de golosinas local. Procuro no comprar mucho porque al final no es algo que vaya muy bien para la salud, pero al menos hago la prueba. Golosinas preferidas Regaliz. Me...
Rating: ⭐ Type: Non-Fiction This was a great read as a physicist. The book was written with quite a high level of assumed knowledge, so if thermodynamics sounds like a scary word, I might suggest reading something more accessible. For me...
Well dear friends, and friends I have yet to meet, today is the last day of August — which means it is also the final day of the blogging challenge #blaugust. The aim was to encourage participants to blog more often, and if possible...
Despite my best efforts, notification culture still permeates through every facet of my life. What we call “asynchronous” communication rarely is, not when the pull to react is immediate and insistent. From work, I’ve trained myself to...
Here’s some stuff I’ve experienced lately (and not necessarily only new releases)...
We had perfect weather for camping this weekend.
muliama posted a response to my blogpost. it's a great read and i hope their shot at creating a better slowly succeeds.
¡Hola! ha pasado un tiempo… dije que no escribiría más por aquí hasta terminar con el articulo entrevistando a desarrolladores indie pero … no he podido resistir, y no es bueno dejar ir la inspiración ¿verdad?. Debo decir que lo primero...
Special Edition — Colors TL;DR:Purple is my color. This blog post has approximately 301 words and may take 2 minutes to read. This post was submitted as part of the Indieweb Carnival for August 2025, hosted by Marisabel Munoz, under the...
English on this site. Français sur linuxfr.org Hoy en día cada vez más gente está harta de todos los excesos y abusos que se sufren en la World Wide Web. Cuando salió "al público" en 1993, la web, era un sistema para publicar y compartir...
I’m fascinated by photographers using film cameras, guitarists on plain old tube amps, authors writing books with pencil on paper, and the list goes on. The same goes for Vim (and Neovim) for programmers. It's very pure and inspiring to...
Welcome to the 84th issue of De Programmatica Ipsum, about Spreadsheets. In this edition: We declare spreadsheets the most popular software programming environment of all time. In the Library section, we learn how to use Lotus 1-2-3 for...
Notes on a chapter about REM sleep and creativity
31 days of blogging, in the bag. It was pretty easy for about the first 20 days. After that, I ran out of ideas. It’s why I’ve talked about blogging for the last four days. I had, at one point during that first 20 days thought: “Oh, I’m...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. Books I read, games I played, things I watched in August 2025. Do we have similar tastes, or will you be questioning how we ever got connected? Let's find out! Media Notes: August 2025, by Guy...
Tigris makes data globally available, durable, and low-latency using a hybrid replication approach that pushes metadata but pulls data on-demand. This talk explains their approach to simplifying global data replication.
这篇文章以幽默风趣的“电梯推销”形式，展示了Emacs作为一款极致可定制和功能强大的文本编辑器的多重魅力。它通过一系列引人深思的口号，强调了Emacs的个性化体验、长远的学习价值、以及它如何成为用户工作流的中心，甚至超越了传统编辑器的界限，为用户提供了一个无与伦比的、能随心所欲塑造的数字工作环境。对追求深度定制和高效工作流的开发者或文字工作者，本文指出了Emacs独特的价值主张。
Blaugust 2025 My contribution to the yearly festival of blogging I love the creative process of writing and I enjoy tinkering with this website. In addition, the social activities and challenges are among my favourite aspect of...
Photo by Natasha Hartano The annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers is fast approaching! Scheduled for mid-October in Brazil, hundreds of Internet scholars (like me!) will convene to do what we do: share cat pictures.
By the time he published Vues des Cordillères, et monumens des peuples indigènes de l’Amérique, Alexander von Humboldt (September 14, 1769–May 6, 1859), barely in his forties, was the world’s most eminent and polymathic naturalist (the...
Hace tres semanas que nos vinimos de Reino Unido.Han sido meses difíciles, porque si nunca es fácil mudarse, menos aún cuando te vas de un país tras un tiempo bastante largo. Mucha logística, mucho hacer planes que nunca salen como...
It’s almost the end of August and I’ve not made a post for this month’s IndieWeb Carnival. The child has been on summer holiday, which leads to not much solo thinking time. Marisabel picked an excellent topic which I should have a lot to...
Spellcheck in Emacs on OS X Mavericks with MacPorts The MacPorts Project provides thousands of ports that greatly simplify the task of compiling and installing open-source software on a Mac. It is easy to install MacPorts. Once MacPorts...
Random photographs from my phone's camera roll in August.