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Necessary link to Maciej Cegłowski's talk "Web Design: The First 100 Years:" https://web.archive.org/web/20230210133927/https://idlewords... Because the technologies we had were go…

Enjoyed this. Reminds me of the great Idle Words (Maciej Ceglowski’s blog) travel posts. Shuffleboard At McMurdo: https://idlewords.com/2016/05/shuffleboard_at_mcmurdo.htm

I use Gary Bernhardt's (non)-method, quoted here: IMO you don't need a special tool to manage your home directory / dotfiles. Git is the tool. Your home directory is a repo with a …

A new alternative that I came across recently: https://www.literary.salon/

Fixedsys Excelsior might get you close (TTF, with ligatures). https://github.com/kika/fixedsys

I wanted to love Common Lisp, but as a Vim user every day was a struggle. One typically uses plugins (Slimv, Vlime) that contort buffers in bizarre ways in order to simulate the SL…

Andrew Kane built dexter, which is an automatic indexer for Postgres. https://github.com/ankane/dexter https://ankane.org/introducing-dexter

Agree —- as someone who previously only owned software books for coursework in the early ‘10s, I’ve built up a growing collection over the past 3 years. The quality of book content…

Seconded. Nice, concise volume that helped me setup hosting for multiple sites on a single VM with different requirements (some reverse proxy, some CGI, some static). Really lookin…

Plain old Ruby on Rails is significantly more Lindy than this. And how about… - LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) - CGI programming (/cgi-bin/) - HTML, CSS, JS (with XMLHttpRequest …

Brings to mind the recent overview that Ars Technica did of their infrastructure stack: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/ars-o... Approx. 12 different AWS ser…

An invaluable tool for languages like Common Lisp, Tcl, and others with REPLs that are missing a basic command editing experience (clear line, search history, etc.).

Fantastic news. I’ve tried lots of new CLI tools but they always seem to fall between too little functionality (eg. xsv) and too much (VisiData). AWK is just right.

Ah, this explains it. I had a feeling I was missing something in my less informative response.

First point: the groff file in my gist is designed for plain-text files, so not all the functionality will exactly translate to PDF rendering. Second point: to resolve the issue yo…

I've started using plain vanilla groff (eg., no mom or other macro packages) for formatting text files. Just run: groff -Tascii example.groff I've found it be perfect for my purpos…