Micro posting in September
2024-09-01: It looks like 0x0.st is up and running again. I believe it was down for a few months and I had to resort to https://transfer.sh/.
2024-09-02: TIL about a nice replacement for tldr: tealdeer.
2024-09-04: ♪ Antony & The Johnsons · You Are My Sister(Special dedicace to K.)
2024-09-06:
Pesto tart with goat cheese and pine nuts. It wasn’t too bad a job after all.
2024-09-06:
It’s both delightful and surreal to see that Valgrind is still in wide use today. — Twenty years of Valgrind
2024-09-06: A small table of interesting manpages.
2024-09-06: Old post but still an interesting personal roadmap with Vim. #vim
2024-09-06: Curiosities in Vinyl: Nice read. Looks like the author has a really comfy setup. I’ll keep the references handy.
2024-09-06: From Julia to Rust. See also Where to Start with Rust. I’ve been wanting to learn both of those languages but I’ve never really found the time for it, or perhaps the motivation to embark on new adventures. One day, maybe one day.
2024-09-11: LSP: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
2024-09-11: Plotting data in the terminal with gnuplot.
2024-09-11: Zsh Tricks to Blow your Mind.
2024-09-11: ♪ The Cure · A Night Like ThisRecorded live at the Roskilde Festival 2019.
2024-09-16:
All mainstream, general purpose programming languages are (basically) Turing-complete, and therefore any programme you can write in one you can, in fact, write in another. There is a computational equivalence between them. The main differences are instead in the expressiveness of the languages, the guardrails they give you, and their performance characteristics (although this is possibly more of a runtime/compiler implementation question). — Why Haskell?
Stick with the mainstream & boring unless a competing alternative that is so much simpler and/or more powerful, and that has an acceptable learning curve, so that it will justify leaving the flock, exists. Best resume I read in a while.
2024-09-16: If you need an easy way to convert MS docx to a PDF from the command line, don’t forget that lowriter (from Libre Office) has option to convert any document on the fly.
2024-09-17:
Accept multiple ways that users can ask for help and respond in kind. — Shell Script Best Practices
If we do not understand both the data and the models completely, it becomes very difficult to spot problems in the software we use to work on them: unexpected behaviour arising from software bugs may be mistaken for a peculiarity in either of them. It is then crucial that we minimise the chances of this happening by applying all the best engineering practices we have at our disposal. — The Pragmatic Programmer for Machine Learning.
2024-09-17: One of my favorite post-punk band from the 80’s. Big Ups: Bauhaus’ Kevin Haskins Dompe and David J Haskins Pick Their Bandcamp Favorites.
2024-09-17: Some Stata tutorials on survival analysis that are worth a read. #stata
2024-09-17: Dissecting the GZIP format. Very interesting read for those interested in compressing techniques. #clang
2024-09-17: Plotting data in the terminal with gnuplot. Still one of the most underated plotting tool for quick one-liner.
2024-09-17: Python’s multiprocessing performance problem. Lot of interesting tips and tricks for those using the multiprocessing module. #python
2024-09-24: ♪ Romain Dubois · Ardoise
2024-09-25:
If there is ONE THING the Unix world needs, it is for bash/ksh/sh to stop diverging further by permitting STUPID INPUT that cannot plausibly work in all other shells. We are in a post-Postel world. — OpenBSD now enforcing no invalid NUL characters in shell scripts
2024-09-26: ♪ Siouxsie And The Banshees · Arabian Knights
2024-09-27: Hot off the kitchen!