A Personal Emacs Package Repo | Irreal
That time someone blogged about my Emacs config.
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Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours - Wikibooks, open books for an open world
As the title says: a book that walks you through writing your own Scheme.
Time Lines
Simple Apple/iOS-oriented app that visually shows you "when" your contacts are. Handy at-a-glance view of how available people (and I guess resources) are across timezones.
Beq's other blog: Cleaning up your act - how a round trip through blender can improve your mesh
Handy blog post that explains how you can use Firestorm's mesh export option, along with Blender, to replace something like Mesh Studio.
Could Covid-19 have reached the UK earlier than thought? | World news | The Guardian
Is it possible that Covid-19 turned up in Europe, and so the UK, much earlier than we currently believe?
Here’s what I didn’t know about “content” - Manuel Matuzović
Deepish dive into what the content property can do in CSS.
Media Queries Level 5
Some detail on the CSS query that lets you detect of someone has their OS set to prefer dark mode rather than light.
Changing the default branch for new Git repositories — Leigh Brenecki
It's time to drop the "master" branch and use something better.
Gerbil Scheme
Another Scheme I've not seen before. Looks interesting and maintained too.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Advanced usage of Python requests - timeouts, retries, hooks
Great article that discusses some useful advanced uses of requests.
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.
Hide/Show everything on a macOS desktop
Handy commands for hiding and showing everything on your macOS desktop.
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.
Twitter: An update on our security incident
First real update by Twitter on the great bitcoin ownage of 2020 incident.
tildeverse
It looks like free shell accounts are still a thing, and there's a movement to encourage their use. Which is kinda cool.
The Many Faces of an Undying Programming Language
An article that goes over the various types of Lisp; nice high-level view.
1 Second Painting - Home
ML-generated abstract art; lots of it. Keep hitting the button, get more. Does what it says.
Patrick Radden Keefe Talks Scorpions and ‘Wind of Change’
Some background to what turned out to be a fun podcast series.
Images - Documentation - iTerm2 - macOS Terminal Replacement
A feature I only recently noticed with iTerm2: it can show images inline in the terminal.
Favicon generator
Very handy favicon generator. Covers all the useful bases.
Introduction to auto layout on iOS (XCode)
Very useful introduction on auto layout of iOS apps as built with XCode.
My Writing Setup (Emacs)
Blog post where someone describes how they have Emacs configured to aid writing.
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.
Colorize your CLI
Blog post that documents some different ways, and some useful tools, for giving more colour to the CLI.
Reader Macros in Common Lisp
Good written example of how to use reader macros in Common Lisp.
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.