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2021-04-29 11:31 #

Yesterday I trashed all snap-related stuff on my Ubuntu machine. Why is Ubuntu forcing us to rely on sandboxed apps if we’re only interested in CLI tools and we only use apt and dpkg from a terminal? #unix

2021-04-29 11:25 #

Knowledge or a means of learning is key to emancipate yourself from your own inadequacies. Never make excuses that hinder your potential to learn something new. Always keep an open mind. — Moral lessons from free software and GNU Emacs

2021-04-28 16:06 #

A small collection of useful CSS techniques and a quick reminder that print style sheets are still a thing.

2021-04-28 16:05 #

envs.sh | THE NULL POINTER – file hosting and URL shortening service.

2021-04-27 20:41 #

Vim tips: nnoremap <silent> <leader>X :<C-U>windo lclose <bar> cclose<CR>. This allows to automagically close the Quickfix or Loclist window, without worrying about which kind of window we deal with. #vim

2021-04-27 09:12 #

What’s even more surprising for Alex is the fact that his peers seem to be different. According to an extensive twitter and blog research he’s done in the past, the majority of developers find eternal happiness immediately after the perfect productivity setup is achieved. — Dev surprised his perfect vim/tmux/bash/xmonad setup doesn’t alleviate existential crisis

2021-04-26 14:16 #

Lovely autocorrection by Git, although 0.1s is a bit too quick for me, especially when I don’t look at the screen (I often perform incremental commits using a combination of git add . && git amend, where amend is aliased to amend = commit --amend --reuse-message=HEAD).

git amend

2021-04-26 14:09 #

Currently reading Common Lisp by Example, and I feel like it is quite a good introduction to LISP in just under 60 pages. #lisp

2021-04-25 22:17 #

JavaScript for Data Science. Great work, but still I don’t like the omnibus word “Data Science”.

2021-04-25 22:16 #