One of my favorite hobby horses is the need to keep control of your data. Broadly that means keeping it in open formats and on computers that you manage. If you’re committing your only copy of valuable data to some cloud service, you’re acting recklessly and are likely to suffer the consequences. — Even Google Employees Are Trying to Escape

Nice artwork using ggplot by Kieran Healy. #rstats

Fast divisionless computation of binomial coefficients.

Machine Learning, Kolmogorov Complexity, and Squishy Bunnies.

Apprently, Textmate has finally been updated to v2 (without RC suffix)!

Emacs being a Lisp interpreter, however, ensures that you have access to everything. In a way, it’s the realization of the promise of Unix itself: it endows normal users with ultimate control over their environment. — Who cares about Emacs?

shox: A customisable, universally compatible terminal status bar. Looks nice although I’m quite happy with iTerm2 own status bar at the moment.

Some psql tips. See also Thorsten Ball’s own config.

In its almost 22 years of existence, kottke.org has never gotten big, but it’s also never gone away, predating & outlasting many excellent and dearly missed sites like Grantland, Rookie, The Toast, The Awl, Gawker, and hundreds of others. — The 15th Anniversary of Doing Kottke.org as a Full-Time Job

This is terribly wrong. Everything the Finder displays should be correct all the time. If, for some technical reason, it doesn’t know the size of something and needs to wait, it should show a spinner or some other indicator that you, the user, need to wait to get the information. The actual file size of a folder is what you want to see, and ideally you should see it as soon as you ask for it. — What You See in the Finder Should Always Be Correct