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Yep, this was the first thing I thought of. Hoping to do the same thing.
Re:Emacs: The most successful malleable system on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @08:28AM (#22876910)
If you have sufficient disk space (~5GB), you can also keep an elpa-mirror on your machine.

https://github.com/d12frosted/elpa-mirror

Re:Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi? on Monday June 24, 2019 @02:01PM (#20266454)
I have one hooked up to my TV on an HDMI port to display all my home surveillance cameras in a grid. Works with any cameras that support RTSP.

https://selfhostedhome.com/raspberry-pi-video-surveillance-m...

Re:Things I Wish I'd Known Before Using Vagrant on Friday October 27, 2017 @07:14AM (#15567298)
Agreed, symlinks and file permissions always seem to bite the people working on Windows. There are parts of our build process that people working on Windows simply can't run because symlinks are created and VirtualBox/Windows complain.
Re:Golang: Don't be afraid of makefiles on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @12:30PM (#15295610)
There are some released bazel rules for Go:

https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_go

Re:How to Build Deep Focus Into Your Organizational Culture on Friday September 30, 2016 @03:31PM (#12614691)
Haven't read it, but would highly recommend Cal Newport's book on the same subject. Made me really think about how I spend down time and it's affect on my ability to focus when I really need to.

https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted/...

For i3, i3blocks does the same job:

https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks

Anyone have a good template / project for homework assignments that typically have code snippets, graphs, images and formulas?