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Wonderful! Thanks!

I see you don't use termcap/ncurses anymore. Do you perform terminal handling yourself directly?

Thanks again!

This is a great website—it reminds me of To Scale: The Solar System [1], a mini-documentary where people attempt to build a true-to-scale model of the Solar System. It makes me feel like a tiny speck of dust, floating in the vastness of nowhere...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR3Igc3Rhfg

Game webpage: https://empiremud.net/

Any suggestions about the history of navigation? I have always been amazed by caravels and ~1500 advances on ships and navigation technology, but never dived into the subject.

For an alternative implementation that aims to be compatible with POSIX (not necessarily compatible with GNU coreutils), see: https://github.com/GrayJack/coreutils

Hi. Thanks for the great work and great write up!

At a first glance, I only see advantages with this approach. What would be the caveats of using Austral instead of Rust (disregarding the ecosystem and toolchain factors)?

Matrix Docker Ansible Deploy [1] allows me to unify all chat networks that I use under one single server (and, therefore, one single client), avoiding switching windows. I do believe it saved me hundred of hours...

[1] https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

Can you provide the link to Mike's podcast?

Others have said that, but I'd like to put emphasis on getting everything in source control. If other developers don't know about source control (!) they will love it. I'd spawn my own local source control solution for my own control and after a few changes, show them the advantages.

Second: making a change without tests is like walking in the dark without a flashlight. Having tests is a very important thing.

Read Working Effectively With Legacy Code", by "Michael Feathers, one of the best books I've read that really can help in situations like that. In summary, it boils down to having tests to aid your changes you need to make.

Is it somehow comparable to Haxe? (https://haxe.org/)

Suggestions:

https://diataxis.fr/

https://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/09/teach-dont-tell/

After years using vim and variations (vis), I decided to give Emacs another try, this time using Spacemacs.

I'm a bit surprised nobody mentioned Spacemacs (https://www.spacemacs.org) as a very good alternative for vim users that want to learn Emacs. I'm very satisfied with it, although it is slow to start, but I'm going to try Emacs server/client that I just heard about in this discussion.

Have anybody tried Spacemacs?

A nice "analog" producvity system with gameficiation features: https://thetodaysystem.com/

After TV has became almost universal, there is indeed a unification of accents. I believe it also happens in other countries as well. For Brazil, I believe it is not "accent-free brazilian portuguese" popularized by the media, but rather accent from the southeast region, specially Rio-São Paulo (the most economically developed region) and totally excludes beautiful accents like northeast (Nordeste) and south (Sul) ones which rarely find a way on media with exception of local TV shows.

I'm a heavy user of todotxt. For me, the greatest thing about keeping everything in a txt file is that it is very easy to build your own extensions with a combination of sh, awk, grep, etc.

For calendars, the problem is a bit more problematic, though. Yes, there are things like calendar[1] and remind[2], but nobody seems to use them nowadays and in the mobile world there is no app to process them. Do you know of any existing solutions for calendars that work like todotxt?

[1] https://man.netbsd.org/calendar.1

[2] https://linux.die.net/man/1/remind

Not a hacking movie, but for a good comedy TV show about IT, I would recommend The IT Crowd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_IT_Crowd

Great project. BTW, I'm more and more interested in how to produce math for blind people. Although there is some recommendation about writring math in MathML, few (none?) screenreaders actually support it. Could this project help or could you tell me other resources about it? Thanks.