Linux is borrowing unused memory for disk caching. This makes it look like you are low on memory, but you are not! Everything is fine! — Linux ate all my RAM

Picking when to assert is much like picking when to comment, except more explicit and more effective. — How to assert for fun and profit

Exploratory Data Analysis for Humanities Data, and a load of Awk and Python scripts on the Literature as Data homepage.

What is in a modern code editor? Auto-formatters and terminal emulators are really a plus, indeed.

Out of curiosity, I plugged my DAC (the little box above the Denon amp in this post) onto my computer and, guess what, it just worked!

Stuff I made recently.

♪ Arlo Parks · Black Dog

Software used to be less demanding at one time.

Cc: haskell-cafe <haskell-cafe@haskell.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2023 06:46:02 +0200
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] two HLS processes with same name

macOS needs just 1-2GiB of wired RAM, don’t worry…

I’d gone to buy some charcoal fixative but there was none in the bookshop. Hold my beer, I came away with these books:

TIL about paps, as a replacement for a2ps for printing to a PS file (this is useful to print Neomutt email when there’s no default printer on your machine). h/t jimifiki

set print_command="paps --font='Monospace 10' > /home/chl/tmp/mail.ps"