It’s hard to contest that Neovim’s achievement happened because of its approachable development process focused on maintainability and velocity, while in contrast, it could be argued that current progress in Emacs happens despite its development process. (and a bunch of other very good points in this article) — The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla

What you need on Sunday evening when you’re looking for a specific file in your “Papers” directory:

alias bibfind="bibtex-ls ~/org/references.bib \
  | fzf --multi --ansi \
  | rg -o --color never '[a-z0-9\-]+$' \
  | xargs -I % sh -c 'fdfind % ~/Documents/papers' \
  | xargs -I % sh -c 'xdg-open %'"

Note that this requires fzf-bibtex, rg and fd, but the later two can easily be replaced with the standard ̀grep and find tools.

A rabbit hole full of Lisp. #emacs

A Week With Plan 9.

MacOS in Virtualbox. It just works. It would sound weird to install macOS on top of Ubuntu, but I appreciate that the author stays at Mojave, which is probably the latest version of macOS in line with OS X’s original spirit.

I gave up with calcurse to manage my TODOs and agenda. I’m probably not an agenda’s guy. However, I added cmus to my TUI toolbelt and it’s now my default music player. If only the Latitude 7310 had a better built-in sound system.

2.1M of the oldest Usenet posts are now online for anyone to read. Feeling older and older…

Distributing Mac apps outside the App Store, a quick start guide. #apple

Typographic Email Kitchen Sink.

Python instead of Lisp. #lisp