henry_flower

That was super interesting!

I think you should self-publish. With your existing audience, you'd sell plenty of copies, and nobody would push "AI" into your work.

not exactly daily, but I use llama3.2-vision (via ollama) to generate a .txt file alongside every photo I take, containing a description of the photo. then I can just grep for, say, "selfie":

    $ alias omglol='find -name \*txt | xargs -n50 grep -li'
    $ omglol selfie
    ./10/IMG_20241019_204444.txt
    ./09/IMG_20240930_082108.txt
    ./09/IMG_20240930_082118.txt
    ./07/IMG_20240712_154559.txt
    ./07/IMG_20240712_154554.txt

    $ omglol selfie | sed s/txt/jpg/ | xargs feh

it is

His autobiography in the epub format: https://gitlab.com/sigwait/computer_connections

heh, I recently "ported" a Linux app to Windows and wrote a simple installer using wix 5 (it was horrible)

to even obtain wix v5: first, using scoop, I installed "dotnet-sdk"; second, using the "dotnet" command, I got the wix.exe executable via

dotnet tool install --prerelease --global wix

you have to start at the beginning for now

add this comment to the course's page, as it may not be obvious that it is not locked due to the beta status

You can always create an EPUB. If you enjoy tinkering with HTML, here is a short book on how to create a custom toolchain (disclaimer: I am the author):

https://sigwait.org/~alex/p/pg2e/

what really drives me crazy is when invoked

    $ foo -h

when I rerun with --help, it prints a worse than useless usage string and says "for more help, type --help-advanced"

late to the party, but

https://sigwait.org/~alex/blog/

topics: linux (usually in some sort of critique), javascript, emacs, & random quotes from books I'm reading

Heh, I started using Mutt only because of "peer pressure" during my university years: all cool guys were using it! (Still with Mutt, > 10 years later.)

I think this is somewhat akin to Emacs: startup costs are enormous, but you reap the fruits for the rest of your life.

use this one: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blank-new-tab-page...

it's just an .html file with an empty body, no tracking & 5 lines of JS:

    window.addEventListener("load", () => {
      if (chrome.extension.inIncognitoContext) {
        document.body.style.background = "#53718e";
      }
    });

no dogfooding

too few developers enjoy their job

managers are incompetent but multiply like flies

based on my IP

heh

in my case I wish it was based on my IP

but for some unbeknownst reason, some components of the page are in Russian. I'm not in Russia; nothing in my browser request indicates I'd like to read Russian.

that key combo is hardcoded in LISP

isearch-forward turns on a minor mode that has it's own keymap

a snippet from isearch.el:

  (defvar isearch-mode-map
    ...
    ;; Several non-printing chars change the searching behavior.
    (define-key map "\C-s" 'isearch-repeat-forward)
    (define-key map "\C-r" 'isearch-repeat-backward)

  (global-set-key [f12] 'isearch-forward)
  (define-key isearch-mode-map [f12] 'isearch-repeat-forward)

I don't see what is the problem here

here's an example:

    https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/curate-a-collection/api-reference/get-collections-entries

why did they choose a happy/sad face, instead of, I don't know, regular buttons?

who's the indented audience of that page? kids? I think not. It's probably a 30-something year old grumpy, bearded guy, yet...

I think her main grievance is:

1) you are not a child

2) yet, you're suddenly start being addressed as a child

3) you get used to it (even if you protest at first; or maybe the silent majority doesn't mind?)

4) because of 2&3, with time, you became infantile (which, certainly, could be an exaggeration)

5) apparently, this technique works quite well for "customer retention"--you feel "safe", for everything that is presented to you is cosy, cartoonish, kid-oriented staff

  https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/cifsroot.txt

I suspect that the editor didn't actually read the text but nevertheless chose the most obnoxious title possible (as they often do)

Presto browser engine (from Opera 12) for a lightweight Electron alternative

a hint: it's very customary to inject a proper disclaimer into such kind of posts

are you sure?

  $ json -j version dependencies.eslint-scope < `npm root -g`/eslint/package.json
  {
    "version": "4.19.1",
    "dependencies.eslint-scope": "^3.7.1"
  }

try redo+:

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/redo+.el

just a user; wrote several elisp pkgs

Not being paid for a labour of love does not make one exempt from criticism.

I'm fine w/ criticism; I'm just of an opinion that the word "shit" is a bit too much; also I'm fascinated how the current emacs maintainer handles such a complex proj

The software's user interface

which part? the majority of the user-visible 'interface' consists of so called interactive elisp cmds (runnable via M-x ...); the help for such cmds (or the whole modes) gets extracted from the corresponding fn comments & gets updated in real time when/if the code changes.

and on-line documentation should be implemented in my language, but it's available only in English.

this is tough. the user's manual is huge. it'd probably take a year for a pro translator to produce a meaningful result

the elisp manual is even bigger

the tutorial is available in multiple lang, though

> M-x speedbar That displays a hierarchical file browser in a separate window, not a list of documents.

click w/ the rigth btn in the speedbar win: a popup menu will appear. select speedbar->displays->buffers

Emacs is shit

pls don't say that :( there's exactly 0 ppl in the world who get paid for writing emacs. nobody is selling the editor as snake oil liniment that ought to remove all the grievances.

No localisation

what do you mean? I can read/type in emacs in all 3 human lang I know/use daily.

No tabs

true

although `M-x speedbar` can display the list of all open buffers in a vertical fashion

Window cannot be maximised prior to setting some obscure option

I usually just press F11

Menu items and buttons do not have underlined letters (i.e. accelerators)

true

The vast majority of the options cannot be accessed through the menu

true

or dialogues, instead you get a non-editable document with embedded buttons

why do you care if it's not a 'native' dlg? the mouse works. C-s works.

Configuration is stored as code

hehehe

that's the whole point, m8!

Keys cannot be rebound from the menu.

true

The list could go on and on

I was hoping you'd mention the idiocy (I cannot find a more proper word) w/ buffers that have long lines. every time I open some 2MB xml file that was generated as 1 string, emacs suddenly becomes dog slow. this is what should be criticized, not the inability to rebound keys from the menu, imo.

  $ time ruby --disable-gems -e 'puts "hi"'
  hi

  real    0m0.009s
  user    0m0.008s
  sys     0m0.000s

I think the essence of any live streaming is an active chat; viewers ask questions, point out mistakes, &c. you 'engage' w/ your audience irt.

the author's broad, unsupported generalizations

surprised to see the author's use of "the Ukraine"

heh

just look up his linkedin; apparently he has spent his prime years working in Russia as some kind of tv producer there.

that's a wonderful mnemonic you have! I've quoted you in the updated version of the text (I hope you don't mind).

it's alright

besides, you're right, "ppl" and especially "2fold" were a bit too much :)

yes, target-specific vars are neat.

I've thought about adding a couple of sentences about vpath (in a cautious style akin to "think twice before using it" [0]), but ultimately decided that the topic is too obscure; besides I practically never use vpath myself.

[0] http://make.mad-scientist.net/how-not-to-use-vpath/