♪ Melanie De Biasio · Your Freedom Is the End of Me

Shell Script Best Practices. #unix

On the one hand, the hardware is great and so is the performance. On the other, getting a new Mac today means it comes with Ventura or Monterey preinstalled, which is unfortunate, and of course there is no downgrade path. — My next Mac might be the last

Little shell script to listen to some free internet radios:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# sources
jazz="https://jazzradio.ice.infomaniak.ch/jazzradio-high.mp3"
misc="https://www.lemellotron.com/stream"
piano="https://pianosolo.streamguys1.com/live"

case "$1" in
  jazz)
    src=$jazz
    ;;
  misc)
    src=$misc
    ;;
  piano)
    src=$piano
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Unknown streaming source..."
    ;;
esac

mpv --no-video $src

♪ Clan of Xymox · A Day

TIL that sending Fzf results to the quickfix list is as simple as pressing <cr> after selecting items using <tab>. #vim

I find the developer experience of Common Lisp to be superior to almost anything imaginable, and this is not an empty statement: having used all sorts of IDEs and editors for over 25 years, I have seen many. — Between two Lisps

♪ Kavinsky · Nightcall

The history of documented Unix facilities. #unix

Python 3.11 is much faster than 3.8. #python