jordibc · HackerTrans

5 miesięcy temudiscuss

Clojure is a fantastic language, but I have always missed a quick interactive shell where you can easily explore the language, using tab-completion and viewing the documentation easily in a way similar to ipython for the Python world. This release of Babashka fills beautifully that role for me.

I hope it shows and helps others start exploring with this beautiful language!

jordibc

8 miesięcy temudiscuss

I thought about it when I read Charlie Stross getting one last year [0]. Then thought, what is essential about it? And decided to try something related, even if it was likely to be just another distraction:

  (defun full-screen ()
    (interactive)
    (shell-command "wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -btoggle,fullscreen")
    (menu-bar-mode 0))

  (defun just-write ()
    "Convert into a big, clean, centered window."
    (interactive)
    (full-screen) (olivetti-mode) (text-scale-adjust 2) (scroll-bar-mode -1)
    (end-of-buffer) (recenter-top-bottom 0))

This is the simple "just-write" function I wrote in emacs, and it also needs the olivetti package and the wmctrl program.

To my surprise, it actually did the trick. I've written more and more pleasantly since then. I feel it's better than if I had gotten a Writer Deck or similar. So I thought I'd share in case it does the trick for anyone else.

(I also use a font and a color scheme that pleases me, but that's minor.)

[0] https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/09/zen-and...

jordibc

9 miesięcy temudiscuss

I think the idea of knots as a basis for everything has come and gone several times. One of those were in the 90s, which is when I became aware thanks to the excellent "Gauge Fields, Knots and Gravity" by John Baez and Javier P Muniain, that was part of the "Series on Knots and Everything" [1]. Those are really intriguing ideas.

[1] https://www.worldscientific.com/series/skae

jordibc

11 miesięcy temudiscuss

Convenience. It will be maintained for much longer. And I'm used to it by now.

jordibc

11 miesięcy temudiscuss

I found myself in a similar situation and also started de-googling, which is much nicer and liberating than I was fearing.

I did the exact same thing with Immich (what a great software, by the way!).

And in case it helps:

Instead of always relying on google maps, I now mostly use CoMaps (https://www.comaps.app/). Way better than using directly OpenStreetMap. And for my Pixel 7, I switched to LineageOS with gapps (https://lineageos.org/) and I'm not missing anything and am very happy with it.

Also, I'm trying now Nextcloud (https://nextcloud.com/), with a setup similar to Immich, and now I do believe there is life beyond google, and it's a better life.

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