Michael Welford

In the latest installment of why we can’t have nice things, I noticed that my markdown viewer of choice, md-tui didn’t support mouse scroll wheel handling… or did it?

If I had to boil down everything I’ve learned about hiring into one sentence: Optimize for people who give a shit.

For over two weeks, I found that the front application would, every hour or so, lose focus to… something.

One has to be aware that human speech and writing is being influenced by LLMs, and thus they are becoming more similar.

As a special snowflake, one tends to want to make modification to tool configuration without messing with colleagues or make those changes a part of the project.

If you customise Tmux a lot, inevitably you will run out of ways to cleanly map keys (or they have become a mess) and you will yearn for another “leader” or “prefix” to bind to moar mappings.

…The original machine had a base-plate of prefabulated aluminite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two main spurving bearings were in a direct line with the pentametric fan.

Whilst re-instating rsync in my blog publishing script (static IP!

How shall I thank thee, let me count the ways: Should I thank you for pirating the entire historical output of creative humanity and then asserting ownership of your loot?

Stats time!