But just think back. In the past say ten years, what changes and innovations have had a real and true life changing impact on you? I am sure you can think of something, but I am also pretty sure that nothing has happened on a monthly or weekly basis that was so important that you absolutely had to know about it at that very moment. — Do you feel overwhelmed trying to stay up to date with the latest tech news?

No more plugin manager, yet a fast startup time. #vim

♪ Foo Fighters · Shame Shame

Vim is great for cleaning a text file using search and replace, but sometimes Unix tools are even better: if you want to remove consecutive blank lines, just call cat -s on your text file.

Over the last decade or so, Apple has been hard at work in simplifying the user interfaces that power its myriad platforms. I’ve welcomed most of that work, but it’s hard to deny that we’ve all lost some things along the way. — The History of Cover Flow

Interesting read on enumerating trees. #haskell

The discrete logarithm. #math

There is a phenomenon in society which I find quite bizarre. Upon our entry to this mortal coil, we are endowed with self-awareness, agency, and free will. Each of the 8 billion members of this human race represents a unique person, a unique worldview, and a unique agency. Yet, many of us have the same fundamental goals and strive to live the same life. — Going off-script

There was a time we were able to wait the end of film or series credits to learn about the song titles and things like that. Thanks to Netflix, this is no longer possible, you will switch to the next ep. before you have time to reach the end of (all due) credits. Old times good times.