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

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.

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.

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

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

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