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Problems with Emacs on macOS
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.

·twitter.com·
Problems with Emacs on macOS
pycodestyle
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.
·pycodestyle.pycqa.org·
pycodestyle
Some macOS tips
Some macOS tips
Some I knew, some I didn't. Some handy tips and pointers to useful apps for macOS.
·thume.ca·
Some macOS tips
AVIF has landed
AVIF has landed
Interesting article about a newer image file format; well worth paying attention to from a web-development perspective.
·jakearchibald.com·
AVIF has landed
noise.sh
noise.sh
Odd and rather fun digital sound spredsheet.
·noise.sh·
noise.sh
Conscientious Software
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).
·dreamsongs.com·
Conscientious Software
The process
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.
·danieltuttle.com·
The process
EICAR test QR
EICAR test QR
Hilarious hack that can mess with all sorts of systems.
·revk.uk·
EICAR test QR
Indexing outgoing blog links
Indexing outgoing blog links
Nice idea that I might have to try myself some time: index and analyse the outgoing links from blog posts to see what it is you link to the most.
·blog.jim-nielsen.com·
Indexing outgoing blog links
Conversation about digitising lab notebooks
Conversation about digitising lab notebooks

The article this links to is interesting enough, but what's really interesting is some of the discussion about how people do, or think people should, approach keeping electronic lab notebooks.

I feel you can tell which are the comments from software developers who don't really appreciate the requirements; they are, understandably, the ones who focus on change histories and the like, without picking up on the fact that generally you don't ever want people going back and changing anything.

As someone who works with people who need to deal with this, it's an interesting read and follows a lot of my journey from ignorance on the subject to some appreciation of the issues.

·news.ycombinator.com·
Conversation about digitising lab notebooks
www.nearlyfreespeech.net
www.nearlyfreespeech.net
Very affordable website hosting. Might have a look at this the next time I want to spin up a low-content site or custom blog or something.
·nearlyfreespeech.net·
www.nearlyfreespeech.net
The second decade of synthetic biology: 2010–2020
The second decade of synthetic biology: 2010–2020

Synthetic biology is among the most hyped research topics this century, and in 2010 it entered its teenage years. But rather than these being a problematic time, we’ve seen synthetic biology blossom and deliver many new technologies and landmark achievements.

In 2020 synthetic biology turned 20 years old. It’s first decade saw some impressive research papers, lots of visionary thinking and unprecedented excitement, but its second decade—from 2010 to 2020—was when the hype really needed to be replaced by some real achievements. So how has it done?

·nature.com·
The second decade of synthetic biology: 2010–2020