Nextflow, for Data-driven computational pipelines, looks great. Apparently it also works with OpenJDK 14 on macOS.

Take defensive measures. To future-proof your content, rather than reference the general web, its far more reliable to link to an archive. — Why I Link to WayBackMachine Instead of Original Site

My thoughts about editors in 2020. That’s an interesting take on text editors in the 21st century. I remain a strong Emacs believer, although I tried and loved (Evil) modal editing. Work in progress.

However, the Vi philosophy is probably too obscure for me at the moment. It has been going on for at least 10 years so I have little hope that it will ever change. While I like some ideas we found in modal editing, I cannot embrace them all. Emacs, 15 years later

I’ve been using Element on Firefox for two or three weeks now. No need to launch textual or Circe in Emacs: I get the best of both worlds (Matrix and IRC), with Desktop notifications and the history!

Two new TV series started this month: The Leftovers (with my son), and Fargo (when I’m alone). Still on Apple TV.

trivial-gamekit: This framework is intended for users who wish to start with game development in Common Lisp as soon as possible without much configuration hassle. #lisp

How funny that Apple’s (now hidden for such a long time) ~/Library folder keep archiving old attachments from the Messages app. It’s actually 2.5 Go large while I systematically delete most of the attached media once they’re saved on my HD! I know it’s good practice to keep a shallow copy of everything for the casual user — in case things get deleted by mistake, you know, but while isn’t there an option to delete old stuff like this in macOS preferences? #apple

Compiling a Lisp: Primitive unary functions. #lisp

PDP 11/70 Emulator.

Mood of the day.