mark_h

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by mark_h 3mo ago
I really appreciated this too. Such a contrast with a similar article from someone offended because their "honesty" caused a patch to be rejected.
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by mark_h 9mo ago
Not a counter-point, but: the other day I rebuilt my personal server, finishing by pointing the reserved IP at the new box. I then had a period of confusion because I was still seeing old content, because my browser (etc) was obviously que
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by mark_h 10mo ago
About my only usage is to augment my isearch. I frequently use isearch to navigate to a place on screen, but sometimes there are so many matches it would take a lot of repeated "C-s" to get there. I have "C-'" bou
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by mark_h 1y ago
Joe Marshall had a couple of posts about... No: https://funcall.blogspot.com/2025/05/vibe-coding-common-lisp...
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by mark_h 1y ago
Allow me to recommend Andrew Hyatt's tutorials: https://github.com/ahyatt/emacs-calc-tutorials
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by mark_h 2y ago
There's this Reddit AMA from a while back: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/13muo9/i_grew_up_in_t...
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by mark_h 2y ago
There's a nice-looking series of exercises from fly.io: https://fly.io/dist-sys/ (I haven't actually done them myself yet, but they look great. Not a standalone resource, but good for practice)
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by mark_h 3y ago
Quick example video from Chris McCord using ffmpeg and whisper in Phoenix: https://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/whisper-speech-to-text...
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by mark_h 4y ago
He's also behind expand-region! (Although, I've started experimenting with the much-smaller treesitter-based https://github.com/casouri/lunarymacs/blob/master/site-lisp/... ) I'm pret
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by mark_h 4y ago
If you follow Nims on Instagram he often links to other accounts.
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by mark_h 4y ago
That's great to hear, thanks! I haven't tested it in anger yet, and I'm not going to pretend to understand the display-code changes.
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by mark_h 4y ago
Also this one I think: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=616da...
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by mark_h 4y ago
There was a recent (a couple of weeks ago) commit that claims to rectify the long lines performance issue, for what it's worth.
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by mark_h 4y ago
They're loved by crop farmers where I live too (I also learnt recently), but they're illegal to cultivate because they're an introduced species. (Now that I write that, I assume honeybees are too, but perhaps the honey indust
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by mark_h 4y ago
I recently started actively bookmarking pages again recently (after being an early Pinboard customer, but not a particularly busy one). I wrote a script to email me 5 random bookmarks every day, so now I treat bookmarking as a "like&q
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by mark_h 4y ago
You can use tree-sitter already if you have dynamic module support: https://github.com/emacs-tree-sitter/elisp-tree-sitter
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by mark_h 5y ago
I recently created a daily "random 5 bookmarks" email using GitHub actions and Pinboard's API. I love it; it's a serendipitous reminder of things I once thought were interesting, and now I bookmark things with abandon ju
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by mark_h 5y ago
All this time I thought it was a John Cale song! (Granted I'd never checked) Edit: Huh, he did produce it, played on the original recording, and then released his cover before the original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by mark_h 5y ago
I came looking to see if anyone had posted this. The thing that got to me about that episode was the complete lack of empathy (mild spoiler, I suppose) shown at the end, which is probably also more than evident in the OP's tragic conc
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by mark_h 6y ago
I haven't watched any myself yet, but there's a thread on r/emacs on just that question: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/k77k6a/what_are_your...
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by mark_h 6y ago
https://newsblur.com/ Switched and started paying when Reader shut down, haven't regretted it.
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by mark_h 6y ago
I always end up using https://jwt.ms/ because it's much more lightweight.
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by mark_h 7y ago
Absolutely, and it really doesn't cost much to ensure they keep doing it. I've been subscribed ever since they offered them. A few years ago while starting up a business I realised that I hardly ever found or made the time to rea
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by mark_h 7y ago
Probably not what you're asking, but this book is fantastic: https://sql-performance-explained.com/ Edit: and topically, free for the weekend! https://twitter.com/MarkusWinand/status/119998294
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by mark_h 7y ago
They are in the process of removing the Zookeeper dependency from Kafka: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-500:+R...
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by mark_h 7y ago
They're running right now if that's not obvious; the best way I know of to follow along is https://twitter.com/keithdunn (includes bonus kitten/puppy content, but mainly it's blow-by-blow coverage of the
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by mark_h 8y ago
The other chapters so far are available from the companion site: http://themlbook.com/
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by mark_h 8y ago
Related but in the opposite direction, static checking of specs: https://github.com/arohner/spectrum (I haven't tried it personally)
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by mark_h 9y ago
Standardebooks link for the lazy, and discerning: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/benjamin-franklin/the-auto...
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by mark_h 9y ago
May not be the angle your asking for, but clojurescript relies on the Closure compiler.

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