I feel like someday I’ll meet someone who also associates an important part of their younger years with a love for Kevin Smith movies, and we’ll be friends forever.
Snootchie Bootchies
The way one tries to measure inequality is never neutral.
— Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Still smoky over Palo Alto. Haven’t seen the sky in four days.
Panoramas from a week of hikes during staycation :)
Building emacs native-comp is really difficult right now. Running into problems even w/ the help of build-emacs-for-macos. Can’t wait until I get it working, either w/ this repo or when feature/native-comp gets merged.
Life is short; I didn’t write back.
– Rebecca Solnit
New blog post up at blog.staqjs.com about how to set up subscription billing with Stripe’s new Customer Portal and Firebase functions.
Posting here is basically just announcing something to myself, but you know, something something backlinks yada yada …
Today I launched blog.staqjs.com.
Not that anyone reads this blog and will see this post and go there and find out about this new project I’m really excited about. I just figured I should post about it here in principal.
Coding became like tweeting in more ways than one.
— Nadia Eghbal, Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
Just started reading Children of the Mind, almost 10 years after finishing Xenocide. Felt necessary to post this comic.
There was a distinct feeling that I got from reading Ender’s Game, and the same feeling but even more so from Speaker for the Dead. A feeling I only get from the very best science fiction. And so Xenocide caught me off guard; it was just off. A swing and a miss. Or maybe that part of the story just wasn’t as interesting and still needed to be told. I don’t know.
And so it was pretty incredible to find this comic, because it meant someone else had that same combination of feelings about those same books.
Credit to Randall Munroe at xkcd.com
Found out an amazing thing today. Sometimes your projectile cache will get polluted with files that don’t exist anymore. This has been annoying me for weeks! But luckily a little digging turned up a solution. Clear the cache with projectile-invalidate-cache, which probably has a convenient binding if you’re using a package like Doom or Spacemacs.
I often have the urge to hack on something when I’m away from my laptop. And so I’ve been trying to come up with an interface that would enable a great software development experience for mobile phones.
But I just realized the solution isn’t to fit a dev environment into a tiny screen. The solution is to figure out how to bring your big screen everywhere. And so I find myself, all of a sudden, extremely excited for proper augmented reality technology. Can’t wait for a lightweight pair of glasses powered by the processor in my phone that I can use to access a cloud hosted dev environment.
That will be magic.
Today I discovered an amazingly simple piece of code for setting up a writing mode in Emacs. This snippet is courtesy of Azer Koçulu. I’ve changed the font to ET Book.
(defun writing-mode () (interactive) (setq buffer-face-mode-face '(:family "EtBembo" :height 200)) (buffer-face-mode) (linum-mode 0) (writeroom-mode 1) (blink-cursor-mode) (visual-line-mode 1) (setq truncate-lines nil) (setq line-spacing 5) (setq global-hl-line-mode nil)) (add-hook 'markdown-mode-hook 'writing-mode)
The paintball episodes of Community are underrated treasures of 21st century pop culture.