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fork-exec for Python programmers. #python
Orgmode clone written in Lua for Neovim 0.5. Looks really interesting compared to existing solutions. #vim
New incubating project in the radar: Apache DataSketchs, for stochastic streaming algorithms.
We don’t remember things because we’ve somehow deemed something worthy of remembering, we simply remember things because they’re remembered, because they happened, because they stuck in our minds. I think a great note-taking system should inherit these properties of memory to properly extend it. — Incremental note-taking
TIL about Beets, which is a media library management system for obsessive music geeks.
Give me a to-do app with tags, color choices, and hierarchies, and I’ll give you an hour of my time to organize something as simple as a grocery shopping list. Give me multiple notebooks for my notes and I’ll give you days of my life building an organization system. — I Still Use Plain Text for Everything, and I Love It
The Old Web isn’t dead. It just got old enough that it constantly seems to leave the spreadsheet with all of its passwords open on the desktop. It is sinking into the sofa while images of a low-bitrate Spaghetti Western dance in its bifocals. — Things We Left in the Old Web
TIL about lieer, which can be used to fetch and two-way tag synchronization between notmuch and GMail. I no longer really use Gmail, and I use mu instead of notmuch to manage my Maildir’s, but this is quite nice. See Setting Up neomutt with notmuch, gmail(lieer) and gpg signing for additional information.