Categories of hype

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

April 13, 2024

Follow the white rabbit

Fun fact, Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity from The Matrix) played in the TV series «Matrix» 6 years before The Matrix movie came out.

April 2, 2024

Engineering is magic

Terry Pratchett, «Equal Rites»

March 30, 2024

Absolutely ridiculous

sometimes I just need this list

February 22, 2024

Stop procrastinating by embracing the mess

I put it to Art, because the site looks good, but more importantly because tackling the mess is art! https://www.deprocrastination.co/blog/stop-postponing-things-by-embracing-the-mess

February 21, 2024

i scream

funny, recommended treatment by ice chips

February 13, 2024

Copyright on board games

Got inspired by a new project, similar to BoardGameArena: https://www.boardzilla.io/ It turns out board game mechanics can be copied ✍️

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January 29, 2024

Digging deeper into fish shell

I discovered that in fish, process substitution <() works via temporary files, and >() is not supported at all (maybe because it looks like fish?)

Relevant discussion since 2014, and still active now: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/1786

January 22, 2024

On shells

fish is black of shells

i.e. authoritative and with good defaults.

Didn’t try it myself, but it is very tempting with its command completions inferred from man pages.

January 21, 2024

RSS is not dead 2024

Bluesky has launched RSS feeds https://openrss.org/blog/bluesky-has-launched-rss-feeds

January 16, 2024