Interesting idea: Literate Git.

To riff on an idea from Alan Jacobs, a blog can be a kind of garden—perhaps one that is well-tended, or perhaps one that is gone a bit wild and overgrown, but either way a place where the structure is organic and emergent as much as it is planned. Even the most carefully-kept gardens have surprises in them, courtesy of the infinite variety that is life. — Tending My Word-Garden

It also fails to mention that the Safe Browsing feature sends, from your IP address, information about the sites you visit to Google or Tencent. — Apple’s New Privacy Page

I just updated my Doom Emacs, which was 10 weeks old. Of course, I had to start from scratch since the upgrade process failed miserably. Great news: they switched to MS Python LSP, which is supposed to be better than the default LSP. BTW, the material icon fonts may fail to install properly, so be sure to check it is right into ~/Library/Fonts in case you see strange icons in your modeline. #emacs

  Some random musings around Keith Jarrett.

How to send good pull requests on GitHub.

The option to “Download Originals to this Mac” doesn’t apply to shared photos. So you can’t back them up youself, and there’s no backup in the cloud. Not only does it no longer download the photos, but it also deleted the ones that had been downloaded by macOS 10.14. — Catalina No Longer Caches Shared Photos Locally

See also Gone, by Tyler Hall. #apple

Hilarious, really. (via Irreal)

Me: another bullet point please Microsoft word

MS Word: slightly to the left or slightly to the right of your last bullet point?

Me: exactly the same alignment as my other 6 bullet points please

MS Word: nope.

— JB (@JBwol) October 30, 2019

Programming for Lovers. #bioinformatics

Piano Chill (since yesterday).