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I bought an ID.4 Pro Performance just before the summer and after about 15.000km I can say that the software is not great at all. I could perfectly live with the delays, sometimes …

The semantic web is dead. Long live Topic maps [1] ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_map

Added some commits to my gopher/gemini client written in rust an hour ago: https://github.com/jansc/ncgopher

RabbitMQ. It just works.

https://jan.bio My virtual playground since 2002. Not a lot of content, changed the domain name a couple of years ago. Currently written in emacs org-mode and post-processed with Z…

I always thought of important as the sudo of styling.

I did the same thing. Bought a refurbished Thinkpad X250 and installed FreeBSD on it. Now it use it as my main development machine. I haven't look back since.

Inspired by Bombadillo, I created ncgopher ( https://github.com/jansc/ncgopher ) which supports both gemini and gopher. It is ncurses-based, and I tried to give it a Borland Turbo …

I wrote an ncurses-based gemini and gopher client a while ago: https://github.com/jansc/ncgopher I really like the gemini protocol because of its simplicity and its text-based natu…

If you prefer a terminal-based browser, there is also ncgopher at https://github.com/jansc/ncgopher . Despite its name, it also has support for gemini browsing, though it still is …

Two examples: The application has two main components, a controller and a struct containing the ui implementation. Callbacks in the cursive library are called with a reference to C…

Heh, I also released my first project in Rust yesterday. An ncurses gopher client. I probably missed many patterns and idioms as well. Starting with Rust is quite hard, even as an …

My homepage is https://jan.bio . Not much content here, but some more on my gopher hole. Gopher seems to have a renaissance these days. Browsing gopher is a nice activity to relax …

I'm not affiliated with humblebundle in any way, and this was a genuine question. I know that the packt books are not best quality, but if one these books is a good introduction to…

Humblebundle has a bundle of machine learning books right now: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/python-machine-learning-p... I'm considering buying this bundle. Any of these book…

I used XFontSel two days ago to find a font for my StumpWM mode line. Still works like a charm. Also, I miss XFig on the list. Still growing strong! The last release is from May 20…

Interesting post. I’ve been dealing with RSI on and off for the past 5 years. Natural keyboard, standing desk, reducing keyboard use in my free time, lots of breaks, almost no hobb…

This reminds me of http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~mellis/cellphone/ . I wonder how long the 600 mAh battery lasts...

PC: - org-mode for meeting notes, ideas, todo-lists, agenda - ledger for personal finances - pass for password management Mobile: - Note Crypt Pro for tracking ideas on the run - O…

Seems like you're a lucky guy. My current iPhone 4s is falling apart. One of the speakers doesn't work, battery lasts only half a day, and the power off button is broken. And I gue…

I disagree (Disclaimer: I'm one of the early backers). The current trend in mobile phones is towards more closed systems. Components are glued together, and often it's not often po…

So do I. offlineimap for syncing mails with my IMAP server at fastmail and mu4e for reading mails. Search is superfast, but I miss a better handling of spam mails. Thunderbird is r…

Yesterday, I spent some hours exporting my roughly 45.000 photos in my iPhoto library to a folder structure sorted by year and event. The tool I used is called Phoshare ( https://c…

Interesting. I used both Evernote and DEVONthink on OS X before. Now, I'm storing all my notes in plain text org-files on my Dropbox - but without version control. Do you share you…