We all know that a languages like Ruby or Python are designed explicitly to hide this sort of complexity from us and let us get on with the dirty business of munging data blobs or serving web requests or solving sudokus or whatever, and thank goodness for that, but wow that is quite a lot, isn’t it? — Hello “Hello world!”

First, new features just keep being added, because how else would you justify releases? VS Code releases every month with new stuff! They are well past the point of shipping the essentials (and have been for a couple of years now), but releases are still been shipped. Because they have a team, that team has a huge budget to spare, and there’s no power stopping them from shipping anything, no matter important or not. There’s no filter. — The most important feature of Sublime Text

Not sure what data-oriented programming is but I bookmarked two posts the other day and I thought I could share them:

• Data-oriented Programming in Python
• An introduction to Data Oriented Design with Rust

The many Flavours of Missing Values. The eternal problem with NA values… #rstats

Introspective Emacs. #emacs

Most of the time, when you hear that a free software project is struggling, it is too late. E.g. both pdf-tools and helm don’t have a maintainer since a few days: did you see this coming?
Org is doing quite well, but I feel we are at a turning point: either we attract more contributors and we can afford to fix more bugs and deliver new releases, or we might get overwhelmed by user requests and lose both our energy and our motivation to continue. — Org 9.4 is out. Can you help?

Yesterday I watched Alabama Monroe (The Broken Circle Breakdown). What an emotional bombshell!

I already said in one of my recent posts on the main blog that I rarely use Stata these days. Yet I continue reading the Stata blog, and I was happy to see Chuck Huber taking the lead on the most recent posts. At the time of this writing, this is all about Python integration, which I find nice after all. I have a somewhat outdated version of Stata since I’m no longer a Stata trainer for public and private companies, but I remain interested in how Stata is evolving. #stata

slimhtml is an Emacs org-mode export backend. It is a set of transcoders for common org elements which outputs minimal HTML. #emacs #org

A guide on disabling/enabling lsp-mode features. #emacs