Making ASCII art in Vim: Learn you some effective Vim motions. #vim

Getting started with Scheme by solving an Advent of Code 2018 challenge. #scheme

htop explained. We need more review like that. #unix

That’s what it looks like when you’re transfering a whole Maildir to a new HD. RIP my old Time Capsule (2nd gen, 2 To) which will no longer be supported after upgrading to macOS 27.

/me is listening to “What You Were” by The Cranberries

Thanks to Armin Briegel, it is easy to replace Google translation cli tool with a proper Swift utility that relies on builtin Apple Translate and local language assets.

Bonus: Put this in your Vim Markdown plugin and you can replace a visual selection with its translation to the appropriate language (here, English):

xnoremap <buffer> <silent> grN :!translate --to en<cr>

I fear the software industry is taking on a large amount of cognitive debt that we’ll have to pay back very soon. There will come a time when we no longer understand how large parts of our digital infrastructure are put together. I might not personally be able to change the course of the entire industry, but I can at least make sure I completely understand the software I put out into the world. Anything else would be professional malpractice. — Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code

There are as many YT donwloaders than Markdown editors on the market right now. LLMs surely help in developping native UI apps, but I would say than some good old (LLM-free) core components, yt-dlp and pandoc, are what make them really shine.

Join Hands by Siouxsie and the Banshees after Meds by Placebo. I suppose this is okay, isn’t it?