Recording screencasts with Emacs. #emacs

(a) More mnemonic names tend to be over-specific (not all cdrs are tails), and (b) after a week of using Lisp, car and cdr mean the two halves of a cons cell, and languages should be designed for people who've used them for more than a week.

— Paul Graham (@paulg) October 15, 2019

Suppressing the macOS Software Update Alert Icon: In case you want to stay on Mojave a bit more but are tired of daily notifications.

TIL about a very nice archive of posts on Racket, by Jay McCarthy. #racket

The TL;DR is that experience, domain knowledge, and discipline are actually the best predictors of startup success and that most successful startup founders are middle aged (mean of 45 years old for the 1 in 1,000 highest growth new ventures) rather than the 20 year old who drops out of school to follow his dreams. — The Myth of the Young Entrepreneur

What Medium isn’t is a generic blogging or publishing platform. It’s narrowed its focus into being more like a magazine that everyone can contribute to (and I’m told that more changes are coming in the New Year). In doing so, it inevitably loses some of its early users - and it adds features like a paywall that may drive some casual readers away. — A Medium dilemna

Sure, but can they just stop the noise with their banner that popup from nowhere?

Almost done with the first 50 Rosalind problems on the Bioinformatics Stronghold. #python #bioinformatics

Alexa, Say No to Chrome.

Nulls are the most talked about example when it comes to the benefits of strongly-typed functional programming, and indeed being able to use your function parameters immediately without having to do any null checking at all is very nice. — How does Haskell make your life easier

Depth of Field with Colour Shift. Lovely.