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Also = when prefixed with a space, which works basically like `command -v`, expanding to the full path of the executable. For example `echo =grep` results in `/usr/bin/grep`.

.plan 5 years ago

On plan.cat/stdin it shows just such an incantation:

    T=`mktemp` && curl -so $T https://plan.cat/~YOUR_USERNAME && $EDITOR $T && \
      curl -su YOUR_USERNAME -F "plan=<$T" https://plan.cat/stdin
It worked for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don't know F#, but from what I gather it's very similar to OCaml which I do. To put it bluntly, after OCaml, most other languages feel ugly. OCaml is my idea of what programming should be: graceful, ordered, well-designed, mathematical, yet practically applicable to real-world problems.

Obsidian may be Electron, but it doesn’t feel like it to me. It’s fast, smooth, and I’ve never noticed excessive memory usage. I think its quality exceeds most fully native apps, especially on Linux.

Last I heard it was built entirely by two people (and two cats). What’s a better way to build a high quality native-ish application targeting 5 platforms with a team of 2?

chill and relax

don’t need thinking

You seem to be seeking proxies for the effect of not thinking, putting your mind and body at ease, and letting go. Have you given meditation a try? Anecdotally, it can fulfill these needs in a way no other semi-conscious activity seems capable.

Down the Wikipedia Rabbit Hole we go:

During the initial run of [A Fish Called Wanda], a Danish audiologist named Ole Bentzen died while laughing during a screening, which led newspapers to report that he had died from laughter. The official cause of death was heart fibrillation, which may have been caused by an increased heart rate due to extended laughter. Cleese considered using the event for publicity, but ultimately decided it was in too bad taste.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fish_Called_Wanda#Death

Nginx Playground 5 years ago

Absolutely. Julia is amazing. All of her work on Wizard Zines is so positive, helpful, approachable, and yet has enough depth that everyone from beginners to experts can learn something. She is an Internet Treasure for sure.

I like to use GPG-agent’s SSH agent emulation [1]. I start the agent with a systemd user service and have the keys expire after something like 10 minutes. A benefit is that it uses a GUI pinentry dialog to ask for your password if the requesting program doesn’t have stdin from a terminal, e.g. if I try to git push from Fugitive inside vim. I find that GPG-agent is more intuitive and less finicky than SSH-agent.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GnuPG#SSH_agent

It’s an enjoyable part of the day and a fun skill to practice.

Snobbery exists, but I think most people are just excited about the subject and perhaps overly eager to share their learnings. To some it seems snobbish, but from the coffee lover’s point of view each thing they’ve learned has made a big difference in their experience and they’d like to share that with others.

Just like any skill, there will be gatekeepers and elitists who think they are better than others. They’re the vocal minority.