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Do you have a write up about this? Actions are great, but my #2 gripe with actions, after the tenuous security posture, is that the default practice is not to run/validate actions …

I'm surprised not to see any comments about rainbow brackets for the Lisp family of languages. I just started in a non-Emacs environment to avoid learning two things, but colourful…

Agreed on this. Especially with the return keyword argument presented in the same article. An assertion of correctness relating to a matter of taste is, ironically, going to be tri…

I can vouch for Mealie. My wife and I run it locally for family recipes and to pull down recipes from websites. I have a DNS ad blocker running, but most recipe sites are still a m…

I'm exactly that person. Always running an older device and lamenting the lack of small devices. Unfortunately, the mainstream wants big devices, so we all get big devices.

We somewhat have this with object picking. You can render objects with unique IDs to a framebuffer, so it's all in parallel. Then you just query the buffer at your mouse coordinate…

I look over at Zig with envy every time I have to write and, inevitably, look up how to write a Rust macro.

I started writing a static analysis tool for the BNF metasyntax. Basically one half of a parser generator, which I do not intend to implement as it's all just for fun!

I switched to Neovim because of RSI. I don't think I would have been able to keep my job without it. I know the other editors have Vim emulation plug-ins, but I found I would alway…

https://battesonb.github.io A relatively new blog. I've picked up posting more frequently in the last few weeks. Right now, I'm working through making a simple game end-to-end usin…