I already read this a while ago but in case I forgot to post it (and today I’m too lazy to search for it in the archives), here it is : Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours. TL;DR “They have delivered more than a third of all the email I’ve replied to every year since 2006 and more than half since 2010.”

SBCL hash tables have been adaptive for almost a year now, gaining some speed in common cases, and robustness in others. — Adaptive hashing

The data are on a 1-5 scale, the mean is 4.61, and the standard deviation is 1.64… What’s so wrong about that?: Nice read.

If you’re interested in Advent of Code challenge and Lisp, go take a look at Joe Marshall series on his blog. Last blog post here, with accompagnying GitHub repo. #lisp

/me is listening to “Blood Moon” by Concrete Blonde

I just spent half an hour decluterring my $HOME dotfiles and movinf everything I could to standard XDG config, data and state directories. Looks much cleaner now.

~
.CFUserTextEncoding  .cargo/              .local/              .ssh/                Library/             backup/
.DS_Store            .config/             .mail/               .stack/              Movies/              cwd/
.Renviron            .ctags               .npm/                .zprofile            Music/               tmp/
.Trash/              .cups/               .nvm/                Desktop/             Pictures/
.cabal/              .deno/               .roswell/            Documents/           Public/
.cache/              .ghcup/              .rustup/             Downloads/           Sites/

The cornerstone for running zsh properly is to point ZDOTDIR to the relevant XDG data directory.

ZDOTDIR=$HOME/.config/zsh

for file in $HOME/.config/profile.d/*.sh; do
  . "$file"
done

How many busy years before the poison?

Found this very old screenshots of podcasts I was listening to on iTunes.

A new version of Racket (8.16) has just been released. There’s now full support for Student t distribution. Easy upgrade (pending a minor issue with Homebrew installed libzmq):

brew upgrade
raco pkg migrate 8.15
rm -rf ~/Library/Racket/8.15
cp /opt/homebrew/Cellar/zeromq/4.3.5_1/lib/libzmq.5.dylib ~/Library/Racket/8.16/lib
raco iracket install

More macOS Tips & Tricks. #apple