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2020-10-05 11:07 #

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

2020-10-05 11:02 #

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

2020-10-03 21:13 #
2020-10-03 21:11 #

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

2020-10-03 21:05 #

It’s been more than a month now than the interactions I have with my Macbook can be summarized to using Emacs (or Neovim) and Zsh in a Terminal (with 24 bit color enabled) and, optionally (more often than I would like), Firefox or Skim to read PDFs. It’s been relaxing, at least. Digital minimalism, plain text mode; I like it.

2020-10-03 21:03 #

Unzip and run it in-place anywhere. It’s also entirely offline. It will never automatically update, or even touch the network. In mere seconds any Windows system can become a reliable development machine. — w64devkit: (Almost) Everything You Need

When dreams come true. Replace Windows by anything like macOS, Linux, *BSD, of course.

2020-10-03 17:25 #

There we go. Apple requiring macOS 10.15 to upgrade some apps. #apple

2020-10-03 17:21 #

Okay, so I uninstalled Textual app. Circe (Emacs) and irssi should be enough to chat on Freenode in the future. #apple

2020-10-03 14:09 #

Trying out irssi. So far I like it better than weechat, because simplicity.

2020-10-02 19:06 #

Panopticon is a debugger-powered tracer for Python code to quickly visualize and explore code execution. #python