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Keynote presentation for Neovimconf.live 2024

Snapshot of the (technical) problems I’m thinking about right now: AWS: Logging is a special case of telemetry (or vice-versa).

Trim trees instead of grooming backlogs

Keynote presentation on Neovim and the state of text editing technology

Alan Kay system programmers are high priests of a low cult inverse vandalism science is a set of heuristics to get around buggy brains put “not” before popular ideas to get novel ideas.

Terminal emulation is primitive feature.

A story of flags and POSIX compatibility

Slides for my presentation at Vimfest 2017 https://vimfest.org/vimfest2017/

Random pausing is all you need: https://scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/2173/what-are-some-good-strategies-for-improving-the-serial-performance-of-my-code/2719#2719 https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Practical introduction to terminal programming + 2-minute tutorial

Slides for my presentation at Vimfest 2016 https://vimfest.org/vimfest2016/

Software projects produce artifacts—a concept less particular than package which has a version, manifest and structure conforming to some package system.

Quietly tucked away in the last slide of a 2011 Netflix cloud talk (Mr.

technically superior plugin isn’t always the most popular. hard to gain traction with users. signify is better than gitgtutter, but it didn’t hit the front page of HN sneak is better than seek, but seek hit the front page of HN plugins with better marketi…

The generalization of this is “communication”, but trying to focus on “improving communication” leaves important stones unturned.

disadvantages: I became familiar with Vim very gradually.

I wrote a toy parser (or rather a parser specification in the syntax of a parser-generator) for COOL, and I’m wondering if mature, popular languages actually use these things to generate their parsers.

I stashed this away long ago and can’t find the source (HN?

Frances Allen: C has destroyed our ability to advance the state of the art in automatic optimization, automatic parallelization, automatic mapping of a high-level language to the machine.

Corollary to Paul Graham’s frighteningly ambitious startup ideas: a list of impossible ideas that interest me personally. ubiquitous, secure, painless (one-click) bitcoin payment ubiquitous, effortless, anonymous, encrypted communication painless, anonymo…

We’ve all been there, perhaps some never leave: Having wandered the halls of a haunted debugging session for most of a day, you happen upon a room containing a piñata.

hardening your system: remove/disable “root CAs belonging to the U.S. government” on OS X: “DoD Root CA 2” and “DoD CLASS 3 Root CA” why?

Levels of aspiration: Arguments like “but it works” or “it gets the job done” are tell-tale signs of someone happy at the lowest level of the technical hierarchy and your cue to just quietly back out of the debate.

Notes from Dr.

human singularity: compulsive excellence (Fountainhead) neuro-chic: designer DNA trivializes current human cognitive limiations, perhaps changes human nature such that current human inclinations are obsolete technological singularity: AI, self-replicating…

In the spirit of Hilbert’s problems, here are the most interesting things I currently know of: Emergence fundamental (non-contact) forces & particles (muons, quarks, …) ⇨ fluid dynamics, etc.

It is a question that you will face, should you deign to start a blog (or column, journal, etc.).

I am reading about and attempting to discuss the holographic principle, a conjecture in theoretical physics that the three-dimensional universe is a projection of a two-dimensional (i.e., surface area) encoding¹.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. - Confucius It is said that some people are “quick learners”.

It even shows inodes usage.

Using Cygwin on Windows, sometimes you need to run a bash command or script from the Windows command line (CMD, DOS, shell).

Big Time invented a new adult beverage à la plage.

Tartt, Donna.

There is a plane at the end of the road on a planet.