Leap seconds: Causing Bugs Even When They Don’t Happen.

After 10+ years of Linux distributions pushing CUPS on me. Over a decade of this complex stack of drivers and daemons that I never quite trusted but “couldn’t live without.” FreeBSD comes along and is like “yeah, just use netcat.” And they’re right. Just use netcat. — Bye CUPS: Printing with netcat

TIL about rusty-man, which is pretty handy to have a look at the Rust doc from a terminal. #rust

Using an Apple Magic Mouse on Ubuntu is kind of magic and ironic, yet it’s still better than PC touchpad. I should note that Bluetooth is working fine on Linux machines compared to 15 years ago…

It looks like the new “Now” thing is: Uses (via Kev Quirk). Here is mine, but it’s called How I do.

Checking news once a day is enough. — The Old Computer Challenge: 10 days later, what changed?

Tonight I top at less than 2 Go of RAM. Great, especially since I’m only using Gnome terminal and a bunch of child processes, after 2 days uptime. Never happened when I was on macOS.

What’s the difference? Why do all those formal doo-hickeys matter?
Performance! Compiled languages are fast. Lisp is WAY faster than Ruby, over the long haul. Smokes it. — the-emacs-problem

R Cookbook, 2nd Edition. #rstats

How I navigate tmux in 2021.