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

That’s right: what’s good for the lurkers is also good for everybody else. Just like all the great practices that enable remote work also made things better for anybody working in an office (if you remember what that was like and can believe that so many people just put up with that for so long), so does favoring transparency and following up on questions in the open improve all your team dynamics. — Learning By Lurking

Time is an illusion, Unix time doubly so…. #unix