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by gglitch 4y ago
I first saw this video a few weeks ago when I was researching Cormorant, the beautiful serif font it uses. https://fontsinuse.com/uses/44320/the-beauty-of-bezier-curve...
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by gglitch 4y ago
This sounds like something you could implement most (or all?) of in minutes with either of two methods: (a) a single text file with grep and, optionally, your own custom tags; or (b) a dedicated email account and client. With (a) you get a
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by gglitch 4y ago
The first time I remember anything programming-related clicking into place for me was when I used some cPanel database GUI to look at the MySQL db my Wordpress or Drupal site was using. Just browsed the tables, and much about what's ha
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by gglitch 4y ago
Beautiful design, illustrations, and typography.
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by gglitch 4y ago
Careful. They'll come for the libraries next.
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by gglitch 4y ago
For me, it was Touretzky's Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation that finally made recursion click. He gives a fantastic, simple, high-level breakdown of different recursion models with simple, non-mathematical e
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by gglitch 4y ago
> I think one thing that hampers adoption of lisps is being a bit more beginner unfriendly I realize you're talking mainly (exclusively?) about the editor situation, with which I don't disagree; but aside from that, I feel like
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by gglitch 4y ago
> Lisp is pretty much "undead". Nice, I like it. Lisp as like the Dracula of languages: immortal and extraordinarily majestic and powerful, but doomed to forever prowl the night, feeding on the innocent--and occasionally turnin
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Peter Saville: the UK's most famous graphic designer (2013)(theguardian.com)
4 points by gglitch 4y ago|0 comments
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by gglitch 4y ago
Agree about the Elements. I was once enrolled in a small class that proved all of the props in order. For a given meeting, a set of props were assigned (fewer and fewer as they got longer and more complicated), and a student's name wou
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by gglitch 4y ago
Since I'm replying 5 days late, I assume you'll never see this, but I'm so with you. I assume it's mainly a function of designing a suitable client. e2ee, federation, open standard, rich or plain text, media-capable, etc
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by gglitch 4y ago
I'm sorry, but searching the documentation (and the internet) is failing me - would you please provide an example or link? Thank you.
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by gglitch 4y ago
I can't argue with that. The first three volumes are noticeably tighter.
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Why the most difficult novel is so rewarding(bbc.com)
11 points by gglitch 4y ago|2 comments
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by gglitch 4y ago
Honest q: what’s the problem with Ruby? Compile time? Gem management? I’m using Jekyll and sometimes wonder if I’m missing anything from the newer systems. My compile time is negligible, and once I figured out how to integrate Tailwind, I’v
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by gglitch 4y ago
I just can't help it, I have to break out this old Kent Pitman saw. I'm not posting this to evangelize; I just think it's funny in context: "But please don’t assume this is an exhaustive list, and please don’t assume L
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by gglitch 4y ago
I'd be thrilled if someone with production experience with both would compare/contrast Recutils with Prolog for a few use cases.
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by gglitch 4y ago
I don't have an opinion on the discussion above, but want to point out that Thunderbird is still alive and well. I use it every day, and donate to it.
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by gglitch 4y ago
It would be fun to reimplement Tiddlywiki as an Emacs app.
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Ask HN: Do you try to use HN's commenting guidelines as rules for life?
1 points by gglitch 4y ago|0 comments
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by gglitch 4y ago
I don’t want to come across as an apologist for the author, but I can imagine him replying that this is an intentional trade off, and that for a larger-scale conversation about the work, the mailing list is a better option. I’ll concede tha
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by gglitch 4y ago
Man it would be so awesome if MacOS had jails. I’m off Mac, and that wouldn’t get me back on it, but it would be amazing.
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by gglitch 4y ago
It's possibly a bit more abstract or philosophical than what you're looking for, but William Kent's _Data and Reality_ is awesome on data modelling. Discussed by Hillel Wayne at https://buttondown.email/hill
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by gglitch 5y ago
So, what's the easiest way to get an image of my signature with a transparent background, and apply it to a pdf?
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by gglitch 5y ago
Out of curiosity, what sorts of things do you do on it?
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by gglitch 5y ago
For me personally , moving back to Linux has been a huge improvement. Absolutely the only thing I miss from my mbp was having out-of-the-box keymapping of Control to Control and Command to Super, giving me readline throughout the system. I
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by gglitch 5y ago
One of my 2022 goals was to migrate my family's files into a JD filesystem. Photos, scans, music, email archives, everything. I'm already maybe 30% of the way there, and, call me a nerd, but I'm finding it thrilling. Wish I
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by gglitch 5y ago
I've recently become interested in radio, despite having no background in any form of engineering or any other STEM discipline. I crammed for my Technical, but am slowing down to try to actually learn the field well before taking my Ge
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by gglitch 5y ago
I'm on Fedora 34 and LO kept crashing on me as well, sometimes seconds after I opened the application. I discovered that the version I had pre-installed with my OS was some clever application delivery format (Flatpak? I don't reme
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by gglitch 5y ago
It's exhausting. And the piano policy in the example is totally absurd. I hope my remarks didn't come across as personal. I have kids in school too, and although I'm currently favoring masks, I'm also miserable about how

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