(…) it’s a good idea to first understand how the system was designed to be used before decrying it as ill-conceived or making it something it isn’t using third-party window managers, app switchers, and so on. — macOS Tips

0xProto, with its subtle ligatures, looks great. (via Leah Neukirchen)

Visual explanations of mathematics: Oldies but goodies. #math

Lisp as a System Service, or how to use UNIX domain sockets for managing SBCL on a remote machine. #lisp

Almost two months with new MacBook and I’m back to my old habits using Tmux and Neomutt all day. Apple Mail is fine but I manage my e-mails 3 times faster with neomutt. Likewise, Apple Terminal has been enhanced over the years but nothing beats Tmux when it comes to manage long-running sessions, multiple panes, and paste buffers. That being said I’m happy everything is kept in sync and I can switch to whichever software to suit my mood. #apple

Modern Statistics with R: From wrangling and exploring data to inference and predictive modelling. #rstats

Boring tech behaves in predictable ways. It’s a well trodden path others have evaluated, optimised, troubleshooted, and understood. Using tech that has been subjected to all those people hours of use means you’re less likely to run into edge cases, unexpected behaviour, or attributes and features that lack documentation or community knowledge. — Boring tech is mature, not old

RHO: A Common Lisp library implementing R ideas. #lisp

To put it briefly, human experience is characterized by Dasein (a technical term for Heidegger that can be translated literally as “being-there” or “being-here”), which tends to overcome spatial distance through meaningful action or symbolic understanding, to bring even the world close to itself, a tendency that Heidegger calls de-severance. With various modern technologies, however, this tendency of Dasein is made more complicated. — A Phenomenology of Spotify and Vinyl

Less is more. Avoid grand designs. Keep the codebase as small as possible. — The ten project management commandments