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In case you're not aware watch(1) performs basically that task: watch -n 5 "ps -eaf | grep blablabla". It can also highlight changes in the text, break itself out of the loop under con…

[Noting that you said GUI, and what I'm about to say isn't] There's a lot more to Graphviz than just dot, as it comes with some really good filtering tools that people often seem to mis…

Some interesting comments from an earlier posting of the draft document¹, and in the discussion of the release that first carried the change². ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28…

The authors have a document explaining their reasons for not making this change before¹, which has also been discussed here². ¹ https://www.sqlite.org/flextypegood.html ² https:/…

With the caveat that the here string causes a tempfile to be written¹, so they're not quite equivalent. How much that matters for your use cases though is a different question, but it is worth t…

What I find most disturbing is that even after I've copied the character to vim to prove to myself that it shows its actual name, I then find myself looking elsewhere for a picture because I simp…

I implemented ISBN-13 support in þe Olden Days, and Bookland always struck me as a neat solution to an annoying problem. The whole evolution is quite elegant from SBNs right through to ISBN-13. SBNs…

The post from last week is presumably about https://open-meteo.com ¹, for others(like me) who want to check that one out too. Colour me genuinely shocked that this much weather data is ava…

There was an equally intriguing Python goto implementation posted last year¹, with some interesting comments²(including some in the gist itself). This version does seem better, but I'm not really…

To reach for a lowbrow Twister quote "Look, all I'm saying is don't fold the maps." Are the paper maps you use available flat or tubed? I've learnt from this thread that Ord…

In all honesty, I'd mostly prefer a paper OS map to all alternatives all other things being equal(weather/space/etc). My comment was largely from a place of love, it is the only reason…

Rose-tinted nostalgia surely? OS map styling is beautiful, but folding maps is the work of devils. You must remember trying to pin sections down so you could see across the paper splits caused by t…

I think this article simultaneously describes everything I love and hate about zsh. The config for comfort is huge , but boy will it be comfortable when you've finished shaving that yak¹. A few…

Related discussion from yesterday¹, but without the meat of Syme's description from this link. ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28473733 …

Anecdote time: I attended a Haskell event at MSR some fifteen years ago, and one of my overwhelming memories is how approachable and friendly SPJ is. I had some pretty stupid questions around the top…

From the manual(:h tab-page-intro): "Tabs are also a nice way to edit a buffer temporarily without changing the current window layout. Open a new tab page, do whatever you want to do and close t…

One of the HN threads I'm assuming they're referring to is the recent discussion of strict tables¹, which reads like the other side of this document. It may be interesting to read the comme…