A world run by tools
Aug 01, 2024
Computering is a series of bad life choices: here are mine.
TIL: Wikidata SPARQL trick - getting item and subclasses
Jul 14, 2024
Zigzag your way through the hundred million item graph with this one neat trick etc.
TIL: Setting default browser on macOS using Nix
Jul 12, 2024
Switch your browser around, declaratively.
Lies, damn lies, and business cases for AI hype
Jul 11, 2024
Wherein we learn that people who are sold on a technology are sold on a technology, and that’s about it
TIL: Using nix run to lint one-off Python scripts
Jul 08, 2024
Linting and autoformatting crappy little scripts as if they were proper software
Staying cool with OpenStreetMap
Jun 26, 2024
Choose an OSM tag, make it cool
A little Nix fix
Mar 02, 2024
A meandering wander around the scary magical future of package management.
TIL: Emacs Lisp - write a string to a file
Jan 05, 2023
Put some Hello World in a file.
TIL: Encode and decode text in Emacs Lisp
Jan 03, 2023
A short guide to string encoding in elisp.