/me is listening to “Lands End” by Siouxie and the Banshees

I would not accept this Dock placement blasphemy from anyone else, but from Thomson, well, OK. (The correct location is on the right. Left, we’ll let you argue for. But definitely not on the bottom.) — James Thomson on the origins of the macOS Dock

FFmpeg By Example is a documentation website to showcase all the unique and different ways to use FFmpeg.

Related to the previous micro-post, see Proper Python Project Structure 2024 by the same author, which argues against the use of requirements.txt in favor of Poetry. I used Poetry for a work project but I’m now betting on uv. See also Uv has a killer feature you should know about. #python

How to C in 2016. See also some rejoinder like Some notes C in 2016 and A critique of “How to C in 2016”. #clang

I migrated a bunch of stuff to keep Neomutt and Apple Mail in sync, and I still use mu to manage complex search in my maildir. Here are the results of the last mu index which accounts for the integration of listservers and digests directly into proper iCloud folders, in no more than 5s:

» mu index
indexing maildir /Users/chl/.mail -> store /Users/chl/.cache/mu/xapian
| indexing messages; checked: 14443; updated/new: 3103; cleaned-up: 4144

/me is listening to “Other Side of Love” by Sixth June

I can’t use Emacs, so it’s got to be usable in Vim. — Why I Chose Common Lisp

I’ve been listening to some music on Apple Music app for one and half a hour and the battery still tops at its max. It’s incredible the level of micro-optimization that must be behind all this. Likewise, I can work unplugged for all day long, I will have a fair amount of time left for the day after. #apple

After today’s quick testing, it looks like Wolfram Jupyter kernel is working as expected under Quarto (see this blog post for a previous attempt with Stata). The Racket kernel works as well (minor caveat, you’ll probably have to symlink your Homebrewed libzmq).