If you need an easy way to convert MS docx to a PDF from the command line, don’t forget that lowriter (from Libre Office) has option to convert any document on the fly.

Stick with the mainstream & boring unless a competing alternative that is so much simpler and/or more powerful, and that has an acceptable learning curve, so that it will justify leaving the flock, exists.

Best resume I read in a while.

All mainstream, general purpose programming languages are (basically) Turing-complete, and therefore any programme you can write in one you can, in fact, write in another. There is a computational equivalence between them. The main differences are instead in the expressiveness of the languages, the guardrails they give you, and their performance characteristics (although this is possibly more of a runtime/compiler implementation question). — Why Haskell?

Plotting data in the terminal with gnuplot.

LSP: the good, the bad, and the ugly.

♪ The Cure · A Night Like This

Recorded live at the Roskilde Festival 2019.

Zsh Tricks to Blow your Mind.

Pesto tart with goat cheese and pine nuts. It wasn’t too bad a job after all.

It’s both delightful and surreal to see that Valgrind is still in wide use today. — Twenty years of Valgrind

From Julia to Rust. See also Where to Start with Rust. I’ve been wanting to learn both of those languages but I’ve never really found the time for it, or perhaps the motivation to embark on new adventures. One day, maybe one day.