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A few thousand words written by a human in a magazine feature is not "the enshittification of technology news". For those who want bullet point distillations of news, that exists i…

For YouTube, I never actually visit YouTube.com. I view my subscriptions via my RSS/Atom feed reader and I watch the videos with mpv. This has probably saved me many hours I would …

Recently I set up a miniflux instance with the intention of using it as a backend for newsboat. I'd been using newsboat on its own for a while and I liked it, but wanted my feeds a…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35DSdw7dHjs is as relevant as ever > Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America…

Jane Street has been purchasing advertisements with popular math YouTubers[1][2] recently, and it really bothers me. Think how many young, mathematically curious people are watchin…

> This year, Gopls releases focused on improving stability and performance Glad to see more work on gopls, as it sometimes has very high CPU usage in my experience. Could also be a…

That link now 301s to another page. Here is an archive of the article: https://archive.ph/Yg64e

Funny that this website is anything but minimal. Instead of using fragments for each section (e.g. http://minifesto.org/#prioritize ), this site uses some janky JavaScript scrollin…

I'm a fan of msmtp for this sort of "lightweight" mail sender, since I really only need it for cron notifications and a few hacky scripts. Maybe I'll give dma a spin.

Happy Purelymail user for about a year and a half now. Multiple custom domains, easy routing, and cheap. It does have a "bus factor" of 1, though, so something like Fastmail might …

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For something like a personal website or blog this seems totally sufficient, though maybe a bit boring. I disagree that these kinds of projects are "generally a terrible idea."

Nice to finally have TOML support in the stdlib, especially considering pip's dependence on it.

That's pretty cool! What other learn-a-new-language projects do you (or others) have? I like to write a very basic HTTP 1.0 server when trying out a new language.

I think Letterboxd is becoming a viable alternative to IMDb, so I don't see why one can't come along for Goodreads too.