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(PyPy was not abandoned.) I assume you might mean to ask "why wasn't PyPy adopted in some formal way into CPython" rather than a separate project, for which the answer is at least …

Always hard to tell.

Do you have a source, that seems unlikely at face value to me, though I've never gone and looked for perception studies myself.

In my case (with beancount) an example transaction looks like: 2025-12-04 * "CON ED OF NY CECONY 251203~ Tran: ACHDW" Assets:Schwab:Checking -72.33 USD Expenses:Utilities:Electric:…

Ooh hmm that's an interesting idea. I have wanted a reason to buy an Emporia Vue or something like that.

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I went the "build a few PDF statement parsers" route. Some I wrote by hand using PyMuPDF, some I coerced Claude into writing (again using PyMuPDF) by uploading a sample bill (I'd n…

Nice! That sounds really useful; in my case the KWH usage (and price/KWH) I pull directly out of the ConEd bill, so my only chance to notice those sorts of things would be post hoc…

Fun, thanks for letting me know, will remove it :) (I'll still stick with "I never really have run into a version issue for things I use Homebrew for, for places where it matters, …

I have my electricity bills tracking into a KWH commodity. It has been... effectively useless :D.

beancount is definitely fun. I also jumped on this bandwagon in 2025 and it's been a great archaeology experiment of digging through old emails and trying to find as much data as I…

I've tried nix-darwin a time or two in the past. Every few years when homebrew makes a "hostile" change and I get upset I consider trying it again (now most recently with changes t…

It's not trivial for a mathematician to understand Lean code, but it's something that's possible to learn to read and interpret in a day (without then necessarily being proficient …

What are you referring to? Inverting scroll wheel direction in macOS is trivial (and one of the first things I change), you just uncheck the "natural scrolling" checkbox.

I found this a few months ago and use it for something totally unrelated to containers -- namely on my Tailnet I have machines on my home LAN which I want to connect to even though…

> It's a shame that no browser cares to integrate that I'm trying out using the Obsidian Web Clipper extension, which essentially does this (and using it for anything I'd previousl…

Not directly relevant, but my PTAC in NYC started having issues this summer just as things got hot (of course). The compressor would come on for a few seconds then shut off. After …

Always a take which sprouts vehement arguments, but this is something macOS gets extremely right, as Cmd-C, Cmd-V, etc. indeed work everywhere including the terminal, and Ctrl-C in…

As can the (FOSS) LuLu: https://github.com/objective-see/LuLu

I do, it's given as a seminar twice a year.

Looks very nice! I have an interactive tutorial I wrote and teach with which is here: https://github.com/JulianEducation/CommandLineBasics in case it's useful as well. I only have …

To me GNU parallel is the top of the line here (as it is for most things parallel). For the most common cases I have it aliased to just `p`: https://github.com/Julian/dotfiles/blob…

Mine is here [1], I basically had all of these set already (other than column ui which I don't like), but I suspect that's just because I've probably previously read nice posts by …