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Links to alternatives and/or advice about how to judge the quality of these types of things as an outsider would be appreciated. For example, to me having Markus Kuhn's name attached to it i…

I don't follow vim closely enough to know where vimscript is heading, anyone in the know wish to comment? It seems that :scriptversion¹/vimscript-version² could provide the support for a si…

Thinking back to sawfish and the last time I saw it, it reminds me of jwz's classic "Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers"¹ statement. It clearly isn't the kindest description o…

An episode of Numberphile from back in August¹ had a great interview with the creator. His enthusiasm is /still/ huge. 1. https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/neil-sloan…

> I eagerly await the addition of optional "scope hints" Scope hinting is simply called braces; `from __future__ import braces`. > Genuine question ... IMO assuming all things are equa…

> lack of typing information isn't "free solo" hard but it certainly makes life a lot less pleasant. One of the projects I work on has switched to full type hinting along with heavy …

I /feel/ like this gist is largely on the money, and also uninteresting at the same time. All languages suck, and often suck in different ways for different users. We just have to pick the…

I get that it wasn't the point of your post, but Bert Bos' html-xml-utils¹ are a great set of tools for these tasks. `hxwls` lists links, so `hxwls <URL or file> | grep mailto | ...`.…

> "Lightest car on the market, engine and bodywork not included for weight optimisation reasons" To be fair, we're not that many steps from marketing cars in that way¹. Pesky fatso …

I have the same experience, but I'm yet to decide what is worse: weak vi-mode where it collapses straight away(no count support fex), or strong support where it fools you for long enough to catch…

In a similar vein ─ but for those of us a /little/ younger ─ there is glfrontier¹ a disassembly/rebuild of Frontier: Elite 2. 1. https://github.com/pcercuei/glfront…

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/nim/ ?

Resolver One¹ /was/ an interesting take on a programmer's spreadsheet. Reading about it again still feels a little exciting. I remember loads of people talking about it at PyCon, ƛdo…

While I too like the change, there can be a user cost. For example, it makes using grep across a project slightly more annoying. Much like the flexible identifier rules in nim, it feels great but us…

I try not to be /that Amiga guy/, but every time I dip in to a little Amiga history it leads me deep in to a rabbit hole of things that still amaze me. Thinking about storage now… My favouri…

There is even talk on supporting packages that are larger than 10GB[1], so three or four hundred gigabytes might be passed quicker than we'd think... 1. https://lwn.net/Articles&#…

> The last package count I made of unstable was over 70,000 distinct software packages. I think stable is well below that, though probably north of 40k. For others, like me, interested in this you …

Yep, it is /just/ an rc release note. However, it is interesting for Linus' comment on it being 28 years since the first Linux announcement.

The press release is currently missing, but you can still dive in to the release notes while you wait on `dist-upgrade` or your new image to download.