Hide/Show everything on a macOS desktop
Handy commands for hiding and showing everything on your macOS desktop.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
SwiftUI macOS desk clock
Nifty little example of making a desktop application with Swift.
Contribution Graphs for Django | VanessaSaurus
Library for Django that provides a GitHub-a-like contribution graph.
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.
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.
sliderulemuseum.com
Online course where you can teach yourself how to use a sliderule.
One day.... One day...
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.
Writing a parser
Guide to writing a parser.
Image aspect ratios in tweets
A handy quick guide to which aspect ratios work best in Tweets.
QAnon Is More Important Than You Think - The Atlantic
A history of "QAnon".
SLIME reference card
Handy reference card OF SLIME commands.
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.
Emacs 27.1 released
Emacs 27.1 is released into the wild.