JNRowe

> I think I once saw an open source, copy-left license for the EU. Perhaps this was the EUPL¹. As someone who works for a company that has occasionally been forced to use it for a contract, I'…

Slightly fluid numbers aside, half the packages for Buster still sounds like good progress to me.

I came to this story hoping for a version of that app for non-MacOS users. For fellow Linux users with that feeling, I wrote up a 10 minute hack ¹ to emulate it poorly. 1. http://jnrowe.g…

> They also have a (complex and potentially error-prone) way to look into .gz files and sync them extremely efficiently even without gzip --rsyncable. FWIW, the last release of `zsync` predates `gz…

Great read about containers aside, I think the most interesting point for me is that `redo` is getting some love. 150 commits in the past couple of months after a six year hiatus, including some grea…

My entire reason for reading Capitalism was because people hate on the world view so much, I felt obliged to at least try to understand why. As I said in my other comment I got in a few good convers…

I read a chunk of “Capitalism” on my train commute, and it was really interesting how often a fellow passenger felt the need to start a discussion. I’m not sure if this is a warning or a recommendati…

Tim Harford’s “Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure”¹, an enthralling collection of tales from really diverse projects. I’ll freely admit to only picking it up because I recognised the name …

In reference to fact 2, ‘Simon Tatham Has No Sense Of Smell’ FAQ¹ always struck me as interesting. Even just for the obvious things like being wary of gas appliances, somehow such a thing had never o…

Another alternative that I like is pepper¹. It doesn't have the interactive menu interface that the OP script has, but it can produce nice results² and does support other VCSs. As an added benef…

Unless you change state yourself in the mean time. `deactivate` changes `$PATH` back to what it was when you ran `activate` for example, which isn’t likely to be what you want if you’ve changed it sin…

That’s a great idea. I’ve just been playing with the implementation from the PEP, and it makes things really easy. The speed of simply extracting a bunch of wheels directly in to `__pypackages__/…

It doesn’t have to be an either/or choice, having both can work. For example, I’ve just used vim-multiple-cursors¹ to rename a parameter to a function, and I could have done that with “straight” …

premake¹ feels like an elegant autoconf alternative to me, and can be combined with various build systems including make. The syntax is far nicer than cmake too, but frankly that bar isn’t very hig…

I found the Build Systems a la Carte¹ paper, and NDM’s companion write up² to be good comparison of build systems in a more general manner. Caveat: It may skewed having been written by heavy Haskell h…

> Use a text to speech reader Thanks for that, it has never occurred to me. I’m installing a reader now. > There's a setting in Microsoft word So… it isn’t in the same realm for quality or…

Tempest for Eliza¹ was doing the rounds some years ago. I'm sure there were other implementations in the wild, but I can't remember their names. 1. http://www.erikyyy.de/tem…

I’ve been using tpope’s excellent unimpaired.vim¹ to handle toggling paste for me², but will probably switch as vim-bracketed-paste is automatic. I only bring up unimpaired.vim as it provides a whole …

I had largely given up on gnuplot because of my inability to produce pretty images. However, after being pointed to http://www.gnuplotting.org/ and seeing the beautiful images ther…

If you're a zsh user you can also use the other zshparam(1) stuff too. Like "mv file.ext{,(:r)}" to perform "mv file.ext file", or :l to lowercase a filename, or any number o…

If I'm understanding you correctly, then imv[1] is a great tool for this. 'imv $filename' pops you in to a readline enabled prompt to edit $filename. Given that it is readline you can…

Not disputing your point, but some of that extra code does allow you to do cool things. Add a `-k -b=-{n}` to see a previous boot's dmesg, or filtering with `-k --until` for time filtering, &…

I'm in the UK, and always use yr.no for overviews. I love the occasions when a .no site uses their heavy snow icon for what passes for a blizzard around here. And, I (ab)use the sites of local f…

I have -- what I believe are -- similar misgivings when there are supermoon stories doing the rounds in the press or social media. Part of me wants to rant about the insignificance whenever someone me…