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by b3lm0nt 8mo ago
Necessary link to Maciej Cegłowski's talk "Web Design: The First 100 Years:" https://web.archive.org/web/20230210133927/https://idlewords... Because the technologies we had were good enou
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by b3lm0nt 1y ago
Enjoyed this. Reminds me of the great Idle Words (Maciej Ceglowski’s blog) travel posts. Shuffleboard At McMurdo: https://idlewords.com/2016/05/shuffleboard_at_mcmurdo.htm
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by b3lm0nt 2y ago
I use Gary Bernhardt's (non)-method, quoted here: IMO you don't need a special tool to manage your home directory / dotfiles. Git is the tool. Your home directory is a repo with a .git directory like any other repo. No other
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by b3lm0nt 2y ago
A new alternative that I came across recently: https://www.literary.salon/
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by b3lm0nt 2y ago
Fixedsys Excelsior might get you close (TTF, with ligatures). https://github.com/kika/fixedsys
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by b3lm0nt 2y ago
I wanted to love Common Lisp, but as a Vim user every day was a struggle. One typically uses plugins (Slimv, Vlime) that contort buffers in bizarre ways in order to simulate the SLIME EMacs REPL — if not, they will lose out on the interacti
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by b3lm0nt 2y ago
Andrew Kane built dexter, which is an automatic indexer for Postgres. https://github.com/ankane/dexter https://ankane.org/introducing-dexter
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by b3lm0nt 3y ago
Agree —- as someone who previously only owned software books for coursework in the early ‘10s, I’ve built up a growing collection over the past 3 years. The quality of book content is generally much higher than blog posts and SO answers, an
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by b3lm0nt 3y ago
Seconded. Nice, concise volume that helped me setup hosting for multiple sites on a single VM with different requirements (some reverse proxy, some CGI, some static). Really looking forward to the 3rd edition of Absolute OpenBSD.
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by b3lm0nt 3y ago
Plain old Ruby on Rails is significantly more Lindy than this. And how about… - LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) - CGI programming (/cgi-bin/) - HTML, CSS, JS (with XMLHttpRequest to avoid full page reloads) - AOLServer with Tcl (
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by b3lm0nt 3y ago
Brings to mind the recent overview that Ars Technica did of their infrastructure stack: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/ars-o... Approx. 12 different AWS services and 30+ instances...
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by b3lm0nt 3y ago
An invaluable tool for languages like Common Lisp, Tcl, and others with REPLs that are missing a basic command editing experience (clear line, search history, etc.).
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by b3lm0nt 3y ago
Fantastic news. I’ve tried lots of new CLI tools but they always seem to fall between too little functionality (eg. xsv) and too much (VisiData). AWK is just right.
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by b3lm0nt 3y ago
Ah, this explains it. I had a feeling I was missing something in my less informative response.
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by b3lm0nt 3y ago
First point: the groff file in my gist is designed for plain-text files, so not all the functionality will exactly translate to PDF rendering. Second point: to resolve the issue you're running into, remove these lines from the groff fi
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by b3lm0nt 3y ago
I've started using plain vanilla groff (eg., no mom or other macro packages) for formatting text files. Just run: groff -Tascii example.groff I've found it be perfect for my purposes. LaTeX felt like too much overhead for genera