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While preparing a short tutorial on using Stack to manage Haskell projects, I noticed that my screenshots include drop shadow from macOS screenshot builtin app. I was reminded that the key is to ⇧⌘4, then press the Space bar as usual, but before clicking hold down the option (⌥) key. #apple

A Flexible Minimalist Neovim for 2024. I wish people favor builtin stuff more often, as does the author here, rather than installing every single plugin available on GitHub. #vim

I don’t use Cabal that often, and I manage almost everything with Stack. I accidently installed a package (bhoogle) that adds nothing to Hoogle, but there’s no cabal delete or cabal uninstall, you know. So I simply nuked the whole $HOME/.cabal directory that GHCup installed for me with an older version of Cabal. And now I can’t get it back. Instead, Cabal now follows the XDG Base Directory Specification, which means compiled stuff will end up in $HOME/.local/state. Let’s go for another env variable (CABAL_DIR) then. #haskell

Rust Language Cheat Sheet. #rust

Now playing from Apple Music right into Tmux status line!

Put this script somewhere in your $PATH:

#!/bin/sh
unset title

title=$(osascript -e 'if application "Music" is running then' -e 'tell application "Music" to get name of current track' -e 'end if')
artist=$(osascript -e 'if application "Music" is running then' -e 'tell application "Music" to get artist of current track' -e 'end if')

if ${title+"true"}; then echo "$artist ♪ $title"; fi

If you don’t mind using the -e switch as your line separator; otherwise just write a .scpt file and load it directly.

See this gist for a more elaborated solution that accounts for both Cmus and Apple Music.

Managing Local and Remote Filesystems with Vim and netrw. #vim

Tonight I updated my default colorscheme (quiet) in Neovim when I noticed there was a monochrome version. Since we cannot set t_Co in Neovim, I create a user colorscheme named morequiet using these specs only. I added a few tweaks for diff mode (I like the look’n feel of the quiet colors in this case) and TODO-like @comment.* identified by Treesitter. So far so good. #vim

Everything Is Correlated. Great article, as always, full of historical references.

Recently I settled on glow and doxx. See also Terminal Trove.