OMG! My Doom startup time just has just been reduced from 4s to less than 1.5s after I removed the only require instruction I add in my various Elisp files. #emacs

Doom loaded 298 packages across 55 modules in 1.492s.

Advanced Techniques for Reducing Emacs Startup Time. #emacs

(…) what I am trying to recover most is differentiated time. Some days should be different than others. I’ll replace Twitter with something else for a little while, and hopefully that’ll seem different. — Recently

Writing More Idiomatic and Pythonic Code. #python

How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time. #rust

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.