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Kinda like HackerNews, but for retrocomputing.
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The Emacs Window Management Almanac | Karthinks
"As someone who’s spent an unnecessary amount of time trying different approaches to window management in Emacs over the decades, I decided to summarize them here. Almanac might be overstating it a bit – this is a primer to and a collection of window management resources and tips."
A pretty comprehensive guide to all the different ways you can manage windows (in the Emacs sense) in Emacs.
Homoiconic Python - MOHAMMED JAMAL
Those who don't learn Lisp are doomed to reinvent it. Actually, those who do learn list are also doomed to reinvent it too. Here someone sort of reinvents Lisp in Python.
tinboard - A terminal-based client for pinboard.in
Tinboard's entry on Terminal Trove
How Python Asyncio Works: Recreating it from Scratch
An approach to explaining Python's asyncio by recreating it from scratch.
Seb's Urban Jungle
Great cafe in Edinburgh.
Common Lisp Quick Reference
A nicely-formatted quick reference document for Common Lisp.
How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode
Failing as designed, I imagine.
Git Gutter in Emacs
Simple guide to setting up and configuring git-gutter in Emacs.
Story of one person's recovery of their Apple account
The circumstances of this person's ban are... up for debate and they don't seem very forthcoming with the details, so it does seem like it might have been deserved, to a degree. But, that aside, some handy information here for people if they do find themselves locked out of their Apple account.
PEP 692 – Using TypedDict for more precise **kwargs typing | peps.python.org
PEP for TypeDict and kwargs typing.
No, Apple Didn't Really Cut Vision Pro Production By 50%
Stories all over the place in April 2024 that Apple had cut production of the Vision Pro. Those stories might not be all they seem...
From Zero To IDE with Emacs and LSP
Handy guide to getting going with lots of LSP goodness in Emacs.
A beginner's guide to Ollama
Straightfoward into to getting up and running with Ollama.
Oh the Humanity
Opening: An ex-Apple designer who went on to startup success once told me, "I wish I could give a workshop for Apple alumni jumping into startups, to help them un-learn The Apple Way." As someone who strives to build products with the craft and quality of Apple, it pains me to admit that The Apple Way can destroy a lot of startups. Which brings us to Humane.
pylyzer: A fast static code analyzer & language server for Python
A Python language server written in Rust.
How to mod the Fallout 4 VR game so it actually works
It's widly-accepted that the VR port of Fallout 4 is trash; but it's also the case that with all the right mods it can be a pretty good VR experience. Here's a guide to modding into an okay VR game.
How To Make VERTICAL VIDEOS in iMovie - the RIGHT WAY!
Probably the best method I've seen yet for how to make YouTube Short style videos in iMove.
How to Resize Videos for YouTube Shorts Using iMovie
Handy little hack to resize videos, in iMovie, so they're friendly for YouTube Shorts.
HN: Lessons I learned from working full-time on a FOSS project for 503 days
A submission to HackerNews of Rodrigo's blog post about working at and on Textual. What's pretty funny in the comments is the speculation about how Textualize would make money, which shows that some folk were speculating on the post without actually having read it.
So nothing new for HN there.
Elon Musk Didn’t Want His Latest Deposition Released. Here It Is.
I'm shocked! Shocked! Shocked I tell you!
vygr/ChrysaLisp: Parallel OS, with GUI, Terminal, OO Assembler, Class libraries, C-Script compiler, Lisp interpreter and more...
A Lisp-based operating system that can be run on many machines, and under the "main" OS.
A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects
Some background on how the xz backdoor situation arose.
Open Source Maintainers Owe You Nothing
A reminder that FOSS project developers owe you nothing, at least under the license. The only way you're ever owned anything is if they've directly contracted them.
503 days working full-time on FOSS: lessons learned
Rodrigo's history of working at Textualize, mention of the layoffs, and what he learned during the time.
The Rise, Fall, and Surprising Survival of dBase
A history of dBase.
Everything I know about the XZ backdoor
A timeline of the events in the creation of the xz backdoor.
The (in)famous reddit "how did you take that photo?" thread
Fairly famous thread on reddit where someone took a photo of their tats, showing both hands, and someone asks how they took the photo, and then they ask how they took the photo of how they took the photo, etc...
Will's Tweet announcing that I was going to join Textualize
"In a fantasy tech startup, who would you hire?
For me it would be @davepdotorg and @mathsppblog
But it's no fantasy. Dave and Rodrigo will be starting at Textualize. They will be helping me build Textual. The TUI framework for #Python that will eat some of the browser's lunch."
Our Subtle Habit of Misusing Managerial Authority
Quote that sums up something that’s been bugging me for months: “When we use managerial authority as the easy way out of an uncomfortable situation—whether we do so in the absence of skill, to save time, or to avoid unpleasant emotions—we do so at the expense of earned trust between ourselves and our employees.”