Random links from Tuesday:

• Learn Vimscript the Hard Way – actively using Vim
• Thoughts on Rust bloat – slowly learning some bits of Rust
• A batteries-included extended standard library for seven R7RS Scheme dialects – must go back to Scheme after exploring Python more extensively
• Donald Knuth’s “Algorithm D”, its implementation in “Hacker’s Delight”, and elsewhere – must reread part of Knuth’s artwork
• PostgreSQL 8.3 and later include a soundex(text) function in the fuzzystrmatch extension – wait, how comes I forgot about that

SQLite is not a toy database. #database

Regression, Thermostats, Causal Inference: Some Finger Exercises.

The havoc wrought by the combination of these two changes is considerable. Those Python virtual environments you created over the last year? All of them are now broken. Why? Just because you ran brew upgrade ponysay? Yup. — Homebrew Python Is Not For You

This is sad, really sad.

The friction of having to write, to structure thoughts in plain text, to remember the name of the person I need to reference on this page: that is the point. Frictionless note-taking produces notes, but it doesn’t - for me - produce memory.
The same goes for a lot of things. I use neovim to edit code like a grandpa, and I don’t use a file tree. There’s no “directory listing” in my editor. I hit ctrl-p and fzf helps me find the file by name. This is obviously not the future of coding: shouldn’t I be navigating the source tree in 3D like in Jurassic Park? Sure, but the names of things, their functionality, and how it all fits together should be things that exist in one’s mind, not just in a computer. — The return of fancy tools

At first I thought Github allowed for personal blog as a derived GH-like UI. Well, no, it’s all CSS (managed with Hugo): https://neapowers.com/.

Foldable Words, (via mostlymaths.net). #python

A Poetic Apology: Or Why Should You Use Poetry to Manage Python Dependencies. #python

Searching for RH Counterexamples — Setting up Pytest. ̀#python

Server(shiny)-less dashboards with R, {htmlwidgets} and {crosstalk}. #rstats