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2026-05-16 10:52 #

The Emacsification of Software. I settled upon Typora as my native reader, although I process all my Mardown file with Neovim.

2026-05-16 10:50 #

Beyond pure operations, IRC was also a social space with its own culture, rituals, and hierarchy. You proved yourself by sharing information, by having access to tools before others did, by being present when something interesting happened. The channels were chaotic, frequently toxic, and also a brutal apprenticeship in network security for anyone who could not afford a conference ticket. Many people who are now respected professionals in DFIR, threat intelligence, and red teaming learned the fundamentals there. — Back in my day we hacked with style: a sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s tools

2026-05-16 10:49 #

Category Theory for Tiny ML in Rust: A practical bridge between compositional mathematics, Rust types, and tiny machine-learning systems. #rust

2026-05-16 10:47 #

Six SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud: SQL is de facto a language for data wrangling.

2026-05-15 18:28 #

Nice summary of rysnc: Farewell to scp.

2026-05-15 18:27 #

I didn’t know there were so many flavors of Vi#vim

2026-05-15 18:24 #
2026-05-05 20:18 #

/me is listening to “Step Into The Gray” by Stuart A. Staples

2026-05-05 20:13 #

Apple used to be a one-book religion. Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines used to be cited by every User Interface course over the world. Xerox PARC and Apple were the two institutions that studied what it means to have a good human interface. Fast forward a few decades, and Apple is doing the best worst it can to break all the guidelines and consistency it was known for. — Why TUIs are back