Joker
Joker is a small interpreted dialect of Clojure written in Go. It is also a Clojure(Script) linter. One of the main aims is that it will allow for scripting with Clojure.
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Male Victims of Coercive Control; Experience and Impact
This report reflects the UK findings of two recent international surveys investigating the experiences of male victims of domestic abuse from their current or former partners which included coercive control.
The report provides an understanding of the types and levels of coercive control experienced by male victims in the UK including emotional, psychological, economic and sexual, as well as isolation.
The findings demonstrate that male victims experience severe and longstanding negative effects from female perpetrated coercive control including anxiety, depression, post-traumatic distress and suicidal ideation.
Recommendations are made to ensure that awareness of men’s experiences are raised, the severity of the impact on male victims is sufficiently recognised, and this is measured and addressed in a gender specific manner.
Interactive Bioinformatics Tutorials
Neat web-based sandbox of bioinformatics tutorials, providing a sandbox for some of the common tools.
Build your own NeXT with a virtual machine
Instructions on getting a NeXT machine up and running in a VM.
Arrakis Rippers: A Guide to “Dune”-Inspired Metal | Bandcamp Daily
Selection of artists who are inspired by, or have made music relating to, Dune.
The logic behind three random words - NCSC.GOV.UK
Keeping this to hand as a useful page to point folk at when they try and teach me about how passwords should be chosen.
How the Python import system works
Everything you could ever want to know about imports in Python. And then a shitton more.
Things I have learnt to move on from BPD abuse
Really well-written list concerning the things to keep in mind when recovering from, and moving on from, the abuse received from being in a relationship with a person with PBD.
git best practices
Article relating to best practices as a git user. Some gems in here.
Excellent thread about experiences with a person with BPD
So many of the comments in this thread really hit home, and put into words my experiences, in ways I'd never be able to. I really wish I had the ability to explain like this.
What's really helpful here is it's healing to see people talk about exactly the things I went through. It's sort of reassuring to know you're not alone, you didn't imagine it, that it really did happen.
Sick Systems: How to Keep Someone With You Forever
Article going over methods of control that can be used by abusers; and also abusive employers.
Steam Phishing scam
A common scam I’ve run into, often via Discord.
Q.E.D. Round Britain Whizz - BBC Archive
A favourite episode of QED from my teens, where a RAF Hawk flew round the coast of mainland Britain. The show itself is about 1/2 hour long, and concentrates very much on the changing geology. The flight itself is sped up about 10x, making it a mach 10 flight, give or take.
Very BBC. Very 80s. Very cool for the time.
The Apperta Data Breach Fiasco
If you found a leak of data from the NHS and let them know, you'd think they'd be properly happy about being told, right?
About that...
Holyrood’s AMS Voting System Explained
Article that does a nice job of explaining how the Scottish parliament's voting works.
Evolution of Emacs Lisp | Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
While Emacs proponents largely agree that it is the world’s greatest text editor, it is almost as much a Lisp machine disguised as an editor. Indeed, one of its chief appeals is that it is programmable via its own programming language. Emacs Lisp is a Lisp in the classic tradition. In this article, we present the history of this language over its more than 30 years of evolution. Its core has remained remarkably stable since its inception in 1985, in large part to preserve compatibility with the many third-party packages providing a multitude of extensions. Still, Emacs Lisp has evolved and continues to do so.
Important aspects of Emacs Lisp have been shaped by concrete requirements of the editor it supports as well as implementation constraints. These requirements led to the choice of a Lisp dialect as Emacs’s language in the first place, specifically its simplicity and dynamic nature: Loading additional Emacs packages or changing the ones in place occurs frequently, and having to restart the editor in order to re-compile or re-link the code would be unacceptable. Fulfilling this requirement in a more static language would have been difficult at best.
One of Lisp’s chief characteristics is its malleability through its uniform syntax and the use of macros. This has allowed the language to evolve much more rapidly and substantively than the evolution of its core would suggest, by letting Emacs packages provide new surface syntax alongside new functions. In particular, Emacs Lisp can be customized to look much like Common Lisp, and additional packages provide multiple-dispatch object systems, legible regular expressions, programmable pattern-matching constructs, generalized variables, and more. Still, the core has also evolved, albeit slowly. Most notably, it acquired support for lexical scoping.
The timeline of Emacs Lisp development is closely tied to the projects and people who have shaped it over the years: We document Emacs Lisp history through its predecessors, Mocklisp and MacLisp, its early development up to the “Emacs schism” and the fork of Lucid Emacs, the development of XEmacs, and the subsequent rennaissance of Emacs development.
On Basecamp (AKA Cringe-camp)
A rather well-done critical review of DHH's explanation of the anti-staff policy changes at Basecamp.
What really happened at Basecamp
Good background to the management meltdown at Basecamp.
Markdown to Slideshow : MarkShow
Handy-looking Markdown-based online presentation tool.
Hyperdeck Markdown Presentations for iPad and macOS
Markdown-based presentation tool for macOS and iPadOS.
Green Vs. Brown Programming Languages
Article exploring some of the most-loved and most-despised programming languages, and exploring the culture around them. With a bit of a laugh thrown in.
Lunar Flight - Basic Flight Tutorial - YouTube
Really useful basic tutorial for flying Lunar Flight in VR.
Problems | Project Lovelace
A pretty neat list of programming problems, that are intented to be solved in a number of languages and the solutions tested. Good for people getting to grips with a new language, or with programming in general.
How to make the text size of the OBS settings menu bigger
This has been driving me buts for a week. My my TV as my main screen for a Windows machine, and so needing font scaling to be 300%, OBS' UI was impossible to use as the fonts were not scaling.
This sorts it perfectly.
VTOL VR voice commands
VTOL VR does voice recognition! This little sim keeps on impressing me.
Web WinAmp
Webamp, it really whips the llama's ass!
How to create beautiful PDFs from HTML
Tutorial on how to get really good-looking PDFs from HTML.
Why the Emacs virgins joke is so problematic
This is a great description of why the Emacs virgins "joke" is so problematic, and why it helpfully demonstrates so many of the problems with RMS' influence over Emacs and Free Software culture.
The Insensitive Ruins It All: Compositional and Compilational Influences of Social Sensitivity on Collective Intelligence in Groups
A group's collective intelligence reflects its capacity to perform well across a variety of cognitive tasks and it transcends the individual intelligence of its members. Previous research shows that group members' social sensitivity is a potential antecedent of collective intelligence, yet it is still unclear whether individual or group-level indices are responsible for the positive association between social sensitivity and collective intelligence. In a comprehensive manner, we test the extent to which both compositional (lowest and highest individual score) and compilational aspects (emergent group level) of social sensitivity are associated with collective intelligence. This study has implications for research that explores groups as information processors, and for group design as it indicates how a group should be composed with respect to social sensitivity if the group is to reach high levels of collective intelligence. Our empirical results indicate that collectively intelligent groups are those in which the least socially sensitive group member has a rather high score on social sensitivity. Differently stated, (socially sensitive) group members cannot compensate for the lack of social sensitivity of the other group members.
Deleting Git Branches with Magit
As this article says, I've always tended to drop down to the CLI to delete a branch, and ensure it's cleaned from the remote, etc. Somehow I'd never picked up on the fact that Magit just handles this. And of course, it does, Magit does so much!