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I really appreciated this too. Such a contrast with a similar article from someone offended because their "honesty" caused a patch to be rejected.
Not a counter-point, but: the other day I rebuilt my personal server, finishing by pointing the reserved IP at the new box. I then had a period of confusion because I was still seeing old content, because my browser (etc) was obviously querying the AAA record first, which I hadn't updated.
(a while ago I needed to contact support to get an IPv6 allocation at home, but that was a very quick interaction at the time)
About my only usage is to augment my isearch. I frequently use isearch to navigate to a place on screen, but sometimes there are so many matches it would take a lot of repeated "C-s" to get there. I have "C-'" bound to avy-isearch (from within isearch), which instantly turns that into one or two keystrokes to filter down.
(or I could pick up the mouse, I know, but that's not why we're here)
There's a nice-looking series of exercises from fly.io:
https://fly.io/dist-sys/(I haven't actually done them myself yet, but they look great. Not a standalone resource, but good for practice)
He's also behind expand-region! (Although, I've started experimenting with the much-smaller treesitter-based
https://github.com/casouri/lunarymacs/blob/master/site-lisp/...)
I'm pretty sure when he wrote all of that stuff that he'd only been using Emacs for around a year. The benefit of someone that talented, or groks Emacs immediately, and is familiar enough with the outside-ecosystem to know what he wants to borrow, I suppose.
If you follow Nims on Instagram he often links to other accounts.
That's great to hear, thanks! I haven't tested it in anger yet, and I'm not going to pretend to understand the display-code changes.
There was a recent (a couple of weeks ago) commit that claims to rectify the long lines performance issue, for what it's worth.
They're loved by crop farmers where I live too (I also learnt recently), but they're illegal to cultivate because they're an introduced species.
(Now that I write that, I assume honeybees are too, but perhaps the honey industry is well entrenched)
I recently started actively bookmarking pages again recently (after being an early Pinboard customer, but not a particularly busy one). I wrote a script to email me 5 random bookmarks every day, so now I treat bookmarking as a "like" button; something I find interesting at the time, and may want to rediscover in the future. I rarely use bookmarks to find something I'm searching for though.
I recently created a daily "random 5 bookmarks" email using GitHub actions and Pinboard's API. I love it; it's a serendipitous reminder of things I once thought were interesting, and now I bookmark things with abandon just so they may show up again. I rarely use bookmarks to find something again because search is still low-friction, but that assumes I know what I'm looking for.
I came looking to see if anyone had posted this. The thing that got to me about that episode was the complete lack of empathy (mild spoiler, I suppose) shown at the end, which is probably also more than evident in the OP's tragic conclusion.
Absolutely, and it really doesn't cost much to ensure they keep doing it.
I've been subscribed ever since they offered them. A few years ago while starting up a business I realised that I hardly ever found or made the time to read them, and reluctantly let it slip. Jonathan emailed me personally to say thanks for being there from day one, and if I had any feedback. I explained, he said thanks anyway and then renewed my subscription! I've automatically renewed every year since then.
They're running right now if that's not obvious; the best way I know of to follow along is
https://twitter.com/keithdunn (includes bonus kitten/puppy content, but mainly it's blow-by-blow coverage of the carnage unfolding)
May not be the angle your asking for, but clojurescript relies on the Closure compiler.