Container machine provides a highly integrated Linux environment that works seamlessly on your Mac. I still haven’t played with this stuff since last year. #apple

TIL about this simple trick for pasting images to piped commands on macOS. #apple

Albums currently being listened to this month:

TIL about universal database CLI tools, like usql or databow. I usually rely on DuckDB core extensions. #database

A useful asymptotic approximation for the expected range of n samples drawn from a N(0, 1) random variable:

$$ d_n = 2\Phi^{-1}\left(\frac{n - 0.375}{n + 0.25}\right). $$

Screenshots like these always make me feel a bit wistful. I must have grown older without really realising it over the last few years: macOS Needs Its Grid Back. #apple

What I would change in Common Lisp. #lisp

The message you’re sending is that you think I’m not capable of reading and writing my own emails. That the people I’m exchanging messages with don’t deserve my time and energy. That I’m doing something wrong by not outsourcing my communication skills to a token prediction machine. — Gmail Thinks I’m Stupid, So I Left

90 % of the t distribution: Another enlightning article by Christoffer Stjernlöf on Entropic Thoughts.