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yolkedgeek

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About yolkedgeek

Hi. I'm Alireza Alavi. Software engineer by trade.

more about me at https://alavi.me

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    Let me also recommend babashka and it's task runner too! If my tasks are simple enough, bash or make will do but for serious projects, specially lispy ones, babashka is amazing.

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    I like the idea of astro, but never really used it. My main concern is. Does v7 mean that there have been 7 breaking changes thus far? So if I started my project on v1, I had to re…

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    Comment #48705595

    What? That's how open source works

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    Comment #48635412

    I really, really wish we can focus on schemacs so we have a scheme based emacs. 1. Scheme is much much nicer and more powerful than elisp 2. More speed and multi threading 3. (i th…

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    Comment #48417421

    Sidenote: Although JSON is very common, I argue EDN is the best data format out there.

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    Comment #48383053

    True. But for things that they all can do, normal scripting (replacing bash/powershell, etc.), creating CLI and TUI apps, I would like to do a comparison of them. 1. which one is m…

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    Comment #48383004

    Jobs and market have a huge factor of 1. politics 2. synergy Almost the only reason that python is popular and people do everything with it is synergy. The only reason that javascr…

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    Comment #48376056

    This is a great comparison and I've been wondering about it for a while. Between babashka, janet(i discovered it just now), fennel, guile. Which one would be a better scripting lan…

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    Comment #47108680

    > Ali Shariati, Ahmed Fardid, and Jalal Al-e-Ahmad - the three pillars of modern Iranian philosophy and culture This just shows how bad the situation for our philosophy and culture…

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    Comment #47023751

    Hi, writer of the post here. Love to hear your opinions and further guidance on this matter. Also, if the website is not available, it's because of another blackout :)

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    Comment #46867388

    Am I too dumb? I literally understand none of this.

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    Comment #46762446

    No, This is different. In "normal" filtering situations, we can connect to most VPNs and do our stuff. When blackouts like these happen, EVERYTHING is blocked. It gets almost impos…

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    Comment #46523204

    I really can't tell if this is satire or not

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    Comment #46263062

    Well this is no replacement for them! The monitors you mention are from 700$ (Dasung 13k is 750USD currently) up to 2000USD. This is an old tablet you maybe have lying around or ca…

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    Comment #46263038

    I don't know how to do what you are describing, but right now, the drawing is OK. it's not instantaneous but good enough for me, not creating artworks. just doodles and scribbles. …

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    Comment #46261668

    It's text on the E-ink screen mostly, be it in the browser, a plain text file, Logseq, Obsidian etc. But sometimes simple writing can be done too. I wouldn't suggest writing code b…

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    Comment #46261659

    I've been using this solution for about 4 days now. It's not meant to be used as your main monitor. I use it only when I want to read something I or someone else has written. I thi…

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    Comment #44245018

    Read the news. That's why the maintainers forked it and are starting improvements on their own project. https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2025/06/06/msg032... https://gith…

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    Comment #44244999

    IBM bought Redhat, Redhat hires the devs for GNOME and hosts its infrastructure. IBM and Redhat where also the main founders of GNOME. They don't need to legally own GNOME. When mo…

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    Comment #44244915

    We are not lawyers. I don't care what their "parent" company is legally. In practice, IBM influences and affects every single decision of these projects/companies. So yes, It is th…

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    Comment #44244890

    With systemD, the alternatives have a curve because so much IBM money and monopolization has gone into it. But systems using OpenRC(alpine) or SysV(MX linux, Devuan) work great in …

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    Comment #44244806

    They do have endless resources. They are an IBM company. If people choose to work for IBM without getting payed, that's kind of their problem.