I just spent half an hour decluterring my $HOME dotfiles and movinf everything I could to standard XDG config, data and state directories. Looks much cleaner now.

~
.CFUserTextEncoding  .cargo/              .local/              .ssh/                Library/             backup/
.DS_Store            .config/             .mail/               .stack/              Movies/              cwd/
.Renviron            .ctags               .npm/                .zprofile            Music/               tmp/
.Trash/              .cups/               .nvm/                Desktop/             Pictures/
.cabal/              .deno/               .roswell/            Documents/           Public/
.cache/              .ghcup/              .rustup/             Downloads/           Sites/

The cornerstone for running zsh properly is to point ZDOTDIR to the relevant XDG data directory.

ZDOTDIR=$HOME/.config/zsh

for file in $HOME/.config/profile.d/*.sh; do
  . "$file"
done

How many busy years before the poison?

Found this very old screenshots of podcasts I was listening to on iTunes.

A new version of Racket (8.16) has just been released. There’s now full support for Student t distribution. Easy upgrade (pending a minor issue with Homebrew installed libzmq):

brew upgrade
raco pkg migrate 8.15
rm -rf ~/Library/Racket/8.15
cp /opt/homebrew/Cellar/zeromq/4.3.5_1/lib/libzmq.5.dylib ~/Library/Racket/8.16/lib
raco iracket install

More macOS Tips & Tricks. #apple

(…) 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