But if you’re one of those people who loves nothing more than to quote how bad Apple is because of their walled garden, please do some fact checking as, to me at least, it doesn’t exist. — The Apple Walled Garden

So long, Apple.

No worry, I’m still happy with my Macbook, this is just that I don’t need these apps anymore. The online versions on iCloud seem decent, and may come out for rescue in case I need to edit old stuff.

Another great post by Peter Ellis, with outstanding data viz: Free text in surveys. #rstats

GitHub Actions: first impressions.

It used to be simpler to teach. #unix

Your grep one-liner du jour. Count how many words of each length appear in the /usr/share/dict/words dictionary.

for n in `jot 25`; do printf "%2d letter words: " $n; grep -E "^.{$n}\$" /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l; done

— Steve Hayman 💉💉💉💉💉 (@shayman) September 29, 2020

These are what engineers of my generation call “eyewash:” Something of no utility meant to impress the outsiders. — Red Meat Friday: Modernizing Emacs

Video: C Programming on System 6 - Intro. Nice setup, and I learned a lot of interesting stuff about Apple System 6.

Future Alterations. #lisp

At least 24 annoyances per day I have to live with. That’s the world WE ALL are living in now. Welcome. — People expect technology to suck because it actually sucks