Why do we hack?
Why do we hack? Because we enjoy it? Because we want others to use our work? Because we get paid?
Figure 1: “Teco Emacs on TOPS20” by George M. Jones is licensed under CC BY 2.0
EmacsConf 2022 - Day 1
So, day 1 of EmacsConf 2022 is in the books. Another eclectic mash up of everything from the “Emacs Buddy Initiative” to a geeky dive on how to Edit live Jupyter notebook cells with Emacs (no, really, I like editing everything in browser text boxes … not!) to a serious proposal for a new economic model for software: Maintaining the Maintainers: Attribution as an Economic Model for Open Source
Just a flu shot
I got a flu shot this week.
I happened to be at the pharmacy waiting for a prescription and had been planning on getting one, so I did.
No politics…
To publish my configs, or not, that is the question.
This is a HOWTO on publishing certain Unix config files while keeping
others private using GNU stow and ?clever? groupings of files into
directories such as home.public.dotfies and home.private.mailconfig
"Red" vs. "Blue" Name calling? We can do better than that.
As we approach another election in the US where hearing cries of “Red” vs. “Blue” become unavoidable, I’m increasingly convinced that such labels are unhelpful substitutes for thought and actually engaging with other people and ideas.
Check Czech Check, Czech? Check!
I was once eating in a restaurant with some co-workers in Prague, and it came time to leave. We wanted the check. In that setting, this would have been a meaningful sentence (in convoluted punning English) addressed to our waiter…
Get going, go get go git going
I’m in the process of installing a new “git” server. It’s written in the “go” language. I was about to get out of bed to work on it, so…
The way to get something done is to not do everything else.
See the title.
Friends
Aristotle identified three types of friendship - friendships of association, utility and virtue. Who were you “best friends” with in early school years? Do you keep up with your old co-workers? Who has hurt you deeply, yet you still wish them the best?
It's Manjaro !!!