EICAR test QR
Hilarious hack that can mess with all sorts of systems.
Static type checking in Lisp
Article about experimenting with static type checking in Common Lisp.
The process
Reminds me of a couple of such Usenet and mailing lists projects I was party to back in the late 90s and early 2000s. Great set of tracks on this one too.
Conscientious Software
Software needs to grow up and become responsible for itself and its own future by participating in its own installation and customization, maintaining its own health, and adapting itself to new circumstances, new users, and new uses. To create such software will require us to change some of our underlying assumptions about how we write programs. A promising approach seems to be to separate software that does the work (allopoietic) from software that keeps the system alive (autopoietic).
When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's passport number
Amusing story on a number of levels; and with a serious message too.
noise.sh
Odd and rather fun digital sound spredsheet.
AVIF has landed
Interesting article about a newer image file format; well worth paying attention to from a web-development perspective.
Some macOS tips
Some I knew, some I didn't. Some handy tips and pointers to useful apps for macOS.
pycodestyle
Another linter of sorts for Python, with an emphasis on code style as defined in PEP 8. I tend to use pylint for linting but this seems to be in favour when using lsp-mode in Emacs.
"Director of AI at Tesla" apparently doesn't VC or backup
So the "Director of AI at Tesla" appears to be in the habit of not committing code for at least 2 months at a time, and doesn't do backups... O_o
Getting started with ASDF
Handy little blog post that provides an introduction to getting started with ASDF.
Using rapid prototyping to choose a bioinformatics workflow management system
Paper about how a group selected a workflow management system. I'm not sure it's that worthy of a writeup, at least not as seen via the lens of a software developer, but it's a useful perspective to read it to get some insight into how others approach this.
Configuring Emacs, lsp-mode and the python language server. - vxlabs
Blog post that explains how to get lsp for Python going with Emacs -- especially useful in this case as it relates to virtual environments, pipenv, and also projectile; all things that I make use of for major Python development.
Bug that stops me from saving or collecting/delivering orders : DeathStranding
This sounds similar to the issue I keep running in with my saved game. Need to dive into this a bit more to see if I can cause the effect without even building the road.
The Medley Interlisp Project
A project to revive and make available Medley Interlisp.
Problems with Emacs on macOS
A Twitter thread about issues with Emacs on macOS and how to work around or plain solve them.
Honestly, as someone who's 100% Emacs/macOS, I'd not really noticed any of these -- but I always run Emacs as a fullscreen application in its own desktop space.
Emacs 27.1 released
Emacs 27.1 is released into the wild.
How to Create Custom Keyboard Shortcuts for Any Mac App
Simple description of how to create custom keyboard shortcuts for a specific application on macOS.
SLIME reference card
Handy reference card OF SLIME commands.
QAnon Is More Important Than You Think - The Atlantic
A history of "QAnon".
Image aspect ratios in tweets
A handy quick guide to which aspect ratios work best in Tweets.
Writing a parser
Guide to writing a parser.
A Guide to Parsing: Algorithms and Terminology
As the title says: a guide to parsing. A fairly comprehensive into to issues relating to writing your own parser.
sliderulemuseum.com
Online course where you can teach yourself how to use a sliderule.
One day.... One day...
The Art of Not Thinking
Not my normal kind of read as I don't generally go in for this sort of blog; but this particular post does do a good job of describing how I tend to approach simple but important things that need doing on a daily or weekly basis.
Doing things is easy, starting doing them can be hard -- especially really useful things like meal prep, general housework, exercise, etc.
Starboard
Site that sort of provides active JavaScript notebooks, with a view to doing most/all of the work on the client side. I was sort of hoping there'd be a self-host option or something and I'm not seeing that. On the other hand it could be a good tool for tinkering with and prototyping code.
Contribution Graphs for Django | VanessaSaurus
Library for Django that provides a GitHub-a-like contribution graph.
SwiftUI macOS desk clock
Nifty little example of making a desktop application with Swift.
Conventions for Command Line Options
Excellent blog post about the conventions normally used for CLI options; and also why Python's argument parser gets it wrong.
How To Forgive Someone : Life Kit : NPR
An interesting essay on the importance of forgiveness, and how it can be about personal recovery rather than letting someone off the hook for abuse. It’s a tough lesson to learn, but ultimately useful, I’ve found.