Just started using gist from the command-line. This includes almost everything I ever wanted.

Emacs: No modeline. #emacs

What simple key re-mapping has transformed your life?. #emacs

git ready: learn git one commit at a time. #git

Zsh for Humans.

Using fullscreen or maximied apps with this new “enlarged” font (JetBrain Mono Regular 13) is much welcome for my poor eyes — not that I have any visual deficiency, but with age I came to appreciate a larger font size on retina displays. Despite loving Iosevka so much, especially for writing prose, I think JetBrain Mono is quite a good font actually. Victor Mono is also nice, IMO. Here’s the current top five on my apps:

I deleted a bunch of dead stuff on my OS (again): clang8 and gfortran, probably installed for R, but I don’t care since I already have the latest LLVM (10.0) and GCC (10.2) from Homebrew; GPGTools, since I already have gnupg installed by Homebrew for Emacs among other things — it took me some time to reconfigure everything the way it used to work beforehand, well, that’s until I realized that there was a separate pinentry-mac package to store passphrase in OS Keychain. Meanwhile, I installed a FreeBSD image for VirtualBox, just to make sure I’ll be ready the day I will have to leave the Mac world unless Big Sur doesn’t turn out to be the same kind of catastrophic update Catalina did. #apple

I’ve been very surprised and delighted over a number of years now by Microsoft’s strong efforts in open source. I understand the skeptics, I was on Slashdot when they tried to sue Linux out of existence and I think only time will tell. I figure MS contributing is better than them hunting Linux distributions for sport. So I was mostly onboard for Microsofts efforts and I’ve especially found Visual Studio Code useful. (…) The entire marketplace is proprietary. — The best parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary

Let’s build a Full-Text Search engine.

Taming Floating Point Error.