Colorize your CLI
Blog post that documents some different ways, and some useful tools, for giving more colour to the CLI.
Reader Macros in Common Lisp
Good written example of how to use reader macros in Common Lisp.
We Thought It Was Just a Respiratory Virus | UC San Francisco
Interesting, if somewhat unnerving, writeup of the journey to understand the effect of SARS-CoV-2 so far.
Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code
Paper that describes how native compilation of Emacs Lisp code can be done. Potentially appearing in Emacs 28, I believe.
How To Forgive Someone : Life Kit : NPR
An interesting essay on the importance of forgiveness, and how it can be about personal recovery rather than letting someone off the hook for abuse. It’s a tough lesson to learn, but ultimately useful, I’ve found.
Conventions for Command Line Options
Excellent blog post about the conventions normally used for CLI options; and also why Python's argument parser gets it wrong.
SwiftUI macOS desk clock
Nifty little example of making a desktop application with Swift.
Contribution Graphs for Django | VanessaSaurus
Library for Django that provides a GitHub-a-like contribution graph.
Starboard
Site that sort of provides active JavaScript notebooks, with a view to doing most/all of the work on the client side. I was sort of hoping there'd be a self-host option or something and I'm not seeing that. On the other hand it could be a good tool for tinkering with and prototyping code.
sliderulemuseum.com
Online course where you can teach yourself how to use a sliderule.
One day.... One day...
A Guide to Parsing: Algorithms and Terminology
As the title says: a guide to parsing. A fairly comprehensive into to issues relating to writing your own parser.
Writing a parser
Guide to writing a parser.
Image aspect ratios in tweets
A handy quick guide to which aspect ratios work best in Tweets.
QAnon Is More Important Than You Think - The Atlantic
A history of "QAnon".
SLIME reference card
Handy reference card OF SLIME commands.
How to Create Custom Keyboard Shortcuts for Any Mac App
Simple description of how to create custom keyboard shortcuts for a specific application on macOS.
Emacs 27.1 released
Emacs 27.1 is released into the wild.
Problems with Emacs on macOS
A Twitter thread about issues with Emacs on macOS and how to work around or plain solve them.
Honestly, as someone who's 100% Emacs/macOS, I'd not really noticed any of these -- but I always run Emacs as a fullscreen application in its own desktop space.
The Medley Interlisp Project
A project to revive and make available Medley Interlisp.
Bug that stops me from saving or collecting/delivering orders : DeathStranding
This sounds similar to the issue I keep running in with my saved game. Need to dive into this a bit more to see if I can cause the effect without even building the road.
Configuring Emacs, lsp-mode and the python language server. - vxlabs
Blog post that explains how to get lsp for Python going with Emacs -- especially useful in this case as it relates to virtual environments, pipenv, and also projectile; all things that I make use of for major Python development.
Using rapid prototyping to choose a bioinformatics workflow management system
Paper about how a group selected a workflow management system. I'm not sure it's that worthy of a writeup, at least not as seen via the lens of a software developer, but it's a useful perspective to read it to get some insight into how others approach this.
Getting started with ASDF
Handy little blog post that provides an introduction to getting started with ASDF.
pycodestyle
Another linter of sorts for Python, with an emphasis on code style as defined in PEP 8. I tend to use pylint for linting but this seems to be in favour when using lsp-mode in Emacs.
Some macOS tips
Some I knew, some I didn't. Some handy tips and pointers to useful apps for macOS.
AVIF has landed
Interesting article about a newer image file format; well worth paying attention to from a web-development perspective.
noise.sh
Odd and rather fun digital sound spredsheet.
When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's passport number
Amusing story on a number of levels; and with a serious message too.
Conscientious Software
Software needs to grow up and become responsible for itself and its own future by participating in its own installation and customization, maintaining its own health, and adapting itself to new circumstances, new users, and new uses. To create such software will require us to change some of our underlying assumptions about how we write programs. A promising approach seems to be to separate software that does the work (allopoietic) from software that keeps the system alive (autopoietic).
The process
Reminds me of a couple of such Usenet and mailing lists projects I was party to back in the late 90s and early 2000s. Great set of tracks on this one too.