An interview with Henrik Lissner, the creator of Doom Emacs https://youtu.be/LKegZI9vWUU
Jakub, the guy behind the Zaiste YouTube channel, published a pretty interesting interview with Henrik Lissner, the creator of Doom Emacs
Open Source Software and Publications by Christian Kruse
This page contains random thoughts and impressions by me.
Jakub, the guy behind the Zaiste YouTube channel, published a pretty interesting interview with Henrik Lissner, the creator of Doom Emacs
Arm-breaker tech unlocks new markets by delaying defaults on unpayable debts. The zombie economy shambles on.
From „the zombie economy and digital arm-breakers,“ an article by Cory Doctorow about the current state of economy and debt.
Dependabot is actually pretty handy
It’s slowly getting lighter again in the morning when I go with the dog. Spring is coming! 💖
JSON RPC is the new XML RPC
I… must resist… the temptation! as any
is not a proper solution! as any
is not a proper solution! as any
is not a proper solution!
Refactoring code thrown together in a hurry is not fun at all…
I knew of dogs that howl to wolves or sirens… but our dog loves operas and starts howling (I’d like to call it „singing“ 😜) to them every time.
Heydon Pickering published a pretty amazing short film about „Why The IndieWeb?“ as part of his webbed briefs series.
If you haven’t already, go and watch it! I like it very much.
Wow, wtf? A malware for a male chestity IOT device. I didn’t even know these devices exist, and now they have malware? 😲
Christian notices that Google Forms is being used to send spam e-mails. I see this, too. Since a few months I get several Google Forms spam mails per day, and my spam filters are not yet adjusted to this new form of spam.
This is why we can’t have nice things. Fuck you very much, spammers.
Happy new year!
Happy christmas, everyone. 🎄
While I first avoided „The Great Pretender“ because it did sound boring, it actually is pretty funny 🤣
„Rewarding CEOs for failure“ - heads they win, tails we lose.
Code Geas: about a boy with daddy issues
„Austerity breeds Nazis“ - an interesting review by Cory Doctorow about an article stating that austerity is a factor for breeding Nazis in a society
the new relation handling of apollo’s InMemoryCache is causing me headaches…
Hu. I didn‘t know that there are Rust bindungs to Qt. Cool!
I am a lunatic with 4 keys :(
A nice article about backwards compatibility at Google. Bonus points for referring to Emacs :-)
tl;dr: Google sucks because planned obsolescence for APIs.
Maybe. But to be honest: why should they? Canonical is already doing pretty much everything in MS‘ favor?
It‘s been predicted for quite some while, yet it still hasn‘t happened. 🤷♂️
Wanna feel old? The babymetal artists are now over 20 years old…
Yes! I really liked She-Ra!
This is way to much power for one company. https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/07/28/google-search-results-prioritize-google-products-over-competitors
I ran >5k km in 398 runs since I started tracking my runs back in 2015, with 1250 km in 2020. This quantified self movement thingy is really pretty interesting.
It’s quite interesting to see how political the bands of my youth have been. A lot of the songs have a very political message and I only ever noticed it years later. For example today I was listening to Rage Against The Machine today, in a nostalgic mood and stumbled over this line:
This time the bullet cold rocked ya
A yellow ribbon instead of a swastika
Nothin’ proper about ya propaganda
Fools follow rules when the set commands ya
This one is from „Bullet In The Head.“ Another line from „Just A Girl“ by No Doubt is this:
‘Cause I’m just a girl, oh, little old me
Well, don’t let me out of your sight
Oh, I’m just a girl, all pretty and petite
So don’t let me have any rights
And I can still remember the lyrics of a lot of these songs.
What I actually want to say? That I am on a nostalgic trip.
When you find a bug in a very old piece of code, do you fix it (and possibly have to explain it to multiple people) or do you ignore it? 😜
I now have set up my own Matrix Server: @christian:kruse.cool 😃
That feeling after an intense legs workout, when even a few steps lead to burning legs ❤️
My good friend Jeena hosts a Matrix server on which he created an account for me. You can now reach me via https://matrix.to/#/@ckruse:jeena.net ✌️
TIL: Elixir’s File.stream!/2
has an option :trim_bom
which removes the (optional) BOM from a file stream.
Vacation is over, but the first work day was surprisingly pleasant
I‘m thinking about publishing my workouts to my website. Granted, nobody is interested in my workouts, but for a quantified self thing it might be interesting
The bad thing with a DIY website: when things go wrong you are to blame. The good thing: you can fix it when something goes wrong.
The last few days I‘ve been working on creating an iOS app for my website so I can publish easier when on mobile. While SwiftUI and it‘s tooling is still bugged it also made development much, much easier and less complex. I indeed enjoy the experience.
SwiftUI is not quite ready for prime time… everything is still rough, a lot of pieces are missing, things are bugged, documentation is… suboptimal.
Creating a SwiftUI application to publish to my website is more work than expected. But I am still pretty motivated! 😜
Ok, seriously: why is it always old, white men being the biggest assholes on earth? When I was shopping this morning there was an old, white man standing directly in the entrance. When I politely asked him to step back so I could leave the building without getting to near to him he barely stepped back and laughed at me. Oh, and of course he wasn’t wearing a mask. I called him an asshole and he screamed after me, telling me how this is all a hoax and I’m an idiot for believing it.
We do this social distancing and mask wearing shit mostly for people like him: old, overweight, male, probably high blood pressure - that’s a whole lot of risk factors for dying because of COVID-19. I am still angry about this.
How is that simple? We failed for years implementing something like this. The closest we got to this is with GNOME keychain, but it still doesn‘t get it completely right…
I found a new rabbit hole to fall into 😂 Just started a new iOS project using SwiftUI
Oh, I forgot Telegram
This messenger thing gets out of hands. On my phone I have installed:
On my desktop computer I also have installed an IRC client. And I refuse to use Facebook messenger, Snapchat and probably some additional messenger I never heard of. This is ridiculous.
I released version 0.6.0 of the microformats2 parser for Elixir. This release features value class pattern parsing and test suite compliance.
Software I miss for the Linux desktop:
TIL: there is an aggregate function mode() WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY sort_expression)
in PostgreSQL. It returns the most frequent value of a group. So, for example when you have this table:
CREATE TABLE foo (id serial, user_id integer, task_id integer);
You can get the most frequent task ID for each user ID by using this aggregate function:
SELECT user_id, mode() WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY task_id)
FROM foo
GROUP BY user_id;