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 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).

Neomutt tip: To escape space in folder name (e.g., iCloud Sent or Deleted Messages), you can use either \ when defining your inboxes in your muttrc or ^V for your bindings. E.g.:

mailboxes =icloud/Drafts =icloud/Sent\ Messages =icloud/Deleted\ Messages =icloud/Archive
macro index,pager gs "<change-folder>+icloud/Sent^V Messages<return>" "go to sent messages"

I switched my default mail provider to iCloud, instead of this domain name. Back in time, I guess. This way I can manage my emails using Neomutt or Apple Mail (via IMAP), depending on my mood, and everything keeps sync’ed. I needed to convert my archives folder from Maildir to Mbox but Neomutt failed me when I used the following command:

neomutt -f ~/.mail/archives -e 'set mbox_type=mbox; set confirmcreate=no; set delete=no; push "T.*<enter>;s/Users/chl/tmp/archives.mbox<enter><quit>"'

I believe this doesn’t handle multiple aliases for sender correctly. However, this Python module worked like a charm and I was able to get 10k messages with correct threading in no time at all.

/me is listening to “Flesh Dance” by Gothic Tropic

I got a new MacBook Pro. It’s gorgeous!

Tip of the day: To rename a bunch of photos on your HD according to the original date, the following works well: exiftool '-filename<CreateDate' -d %Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S%%-c.%%le -ext jpg -r ..

/me is listening to “I Can’t Be” by Sally Dige

Musing with three types of backup systems on my old Macbook: Arq, Borg and Kopia. I was able to mount every backup folder correctly. Now I just need to put the years end-to-end!