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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.
Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code
Paper that describes how native compilation of Emacs Lisp code can be done. Potentially appearing in Emacs 28, I believe.
We Thought It Was Just a Respiratory Virus | UC San Francisco
Interesting, if somewhat unnerving, writeup of the journey to understand the effect of SARS-CoV-2 so far.
Reader Macros in Common Lisp
Good written example of how to use reader macros in Common Lisp.
Colorize your CLI
Blog post that documents some different ways, and some useful tools, for giving more colour to the CLI.
Glance – Quick Look Plugin
Extension for Quick Look on macOS that nicely handles all sorts of source code, etc. Especially of interest because it properly renders Markdown documents.
My Writing Setup (Emacs)
Blog post where someone describes how they have Emacs configured to aid writing.
Introduction to auto layout on iOS (XCode)
Very useful introduction on auto layout of iOS apps as built with XCode.
Favicon generator
Very handy favicon generator. Covers all the useful bases.
Images - Documentation - iTerm2 - macOS Terminal Replacement
A feature I only recently noticed with iTerm2: it can show images inline in the terminal.
Patrick Radden Keefe Talks Scorpions and ‘Wind of Change’
Some background to what turned out to be a fun podcast series.
1 Second Painting - Home
ML-generated abstract art; lots of it. Keep hitting the button, get more. Does what it says.
The Many Faces of an Undying Programming Language
An article that goes over the various types of Lisp; nice high-level view.
tildeverse
It looks like free shell accounts are still a thing, and there's a movement to encourage their use. Which is kinda cool.
Twitter: An update on our security incident
First real update by Twitter on the great bitcoin ownage of 2020 incident.
Researchers generate complete human X chromosome sequence
Some good comments in here that explain some of the issues, and solutions, of acquiring a full sequence of a chromosome.
Hide/Show everything on a macOS desktop
Handy commands for hiding and showing everything on your macOS desktop.
Things you're probably not using in Python 3 - but should
Handy little post that details some of the real headline changes that have taken place in "recent" generations of Python 3. I'm happy to say that I make use of a good few of these already.
Advanced usage of Python requests - timeouts, retries, hooks
Great article that discusses some useful advanced uses of requests.
Setting up a local web server on macOS 10… - Apple Community
Setting up a local web server, especially with php and serving from a user's home directory, on macOS.
Visual git History
Neat site that provides an animated view of the history of a file in git (well, mostly on GitHub and similar forges). Could be handy if ever needing to demonstrate how some code evolved.
How to install macOS Big Sur beta on your Mac - 9to5Mac
If/when I decided to throw the Big Sur beta on a machine, this'll be a handy guide/reminder.
Get OS X System Info from the Command Line – teczd
Handy article that documents the various ways of getting a Mac's system information inside a terminal.
Gerbil Scheme
Another Scheme I've not seen before. Looks interesting and maintained too.