Moving to zsh. I’ve been diving with Zsh long before it became the de facto shell on macOS, and I just moved again, this time for Fish. However, there’s always something nice to learn from Scripting OS X, so I’ll keep this in my bookmarks, especially since I still use zsh occasionally (because of Emacs multi-term which doesn’t seem to like Fish very much). Thorsten Ball has a nice init file, btw.

From Programming Praxis: There are many algorithms for recognizing anagrams. Here is an unusual one:

Assign each character to a prime number, then map a string to the corresponding primes, and compute their product. Two strings are anagrams only if they share a product.

Today on HN: What’s New In Python 3.8 and The Unix game.

After upgrading Ubuntu and R on the server at work, I’m now looking for an optimal Mac->Linux iTerm+Tmux+ssh thing. I’m close. In the meantime, I found this: My remote shell session setup, but I believe mosh is not the recommended way anymore. And I know I definitely need to re-read this again.

Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000.

Let’s go!

I finally got my Bitbucket account back. Just so I could delete the dozens of repositories I maintained over the years there. This is a very bad user experience since I cannot delete my account and don’t have any clue, even after reading the docs and the commnunity wiki. I guess I now have to contact the support center.

Starting early so I’ll be sure I can listen to all of this while learning about computational biology.

TIL about RacketScript, an experimental lightweight Racket to JavaScript compiler. #racket

Another great app by Jens Axel Søgaard: Racket Stories. #racket