/me is listening to “Step Into The Gray” by Stuart A. Staples

Apple used to be a one-book religion. Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines used to be cited by every User Interface course over the world. Xerox PARC and Apple were the two institutions that studied what it means to have a good human interface. Fast forward a few decades, and Apple is doing the best worst it can to break all the guidelines and consistency it was known for. — Why TUIs are back

If you use IPython as your REPL of choice when editing Python files in Neovim, and you alson happen to use uv to manage your project, the following keymap might be useful: nnoremap <buffer> <silent> <leader>! :sp term://uv run --with ipython ipython --no-banner --simple-prompt<cr><C-w><C-w>. The first time it will install all IPython dependencies, but it will run smoothly on next runs. The advantage is that uv’s IPython is aware of your project dependencies, contrary to IPython installed system-wide (e.g., via Homebrew or uv tool). #vim `

The MacBook Pro G4 from 2005 had 6 ports on the right side. Modern MacBook Pro have two Thunderbolt 3/4 with USB-C slots + one SD-Card reader.

mine is an integrated development environment for Coalton and Common Lisp for Windows, macOS, and Linux. #lisp

How LLMs Actually Work. FWIW.

TIL that there’s something like Astral uv for Chicken Scheme: Why I chose Rust for Basket. #scheme

The idea of “iterate over an entire collection” is a pretty common one in programming. For the sake of brevity, I’m not going to justify why I think this is important. But let’s look at a couple examples of where Scheme fails because it doesn’t have some generic way to operate over different collections. — Reflecting on Transducers

Exposing Floating Point. All of Bartosz Ciechanowski’s blog post are enlightening!

Networking changes coming in macOS 27: I guess I just need to back my (very) old Time Capsule to an SSD device. #apple