Jonathan Y. Chan

In macOS, if you click on an application’s icon in the dock, it’ll either: open it, if it isn’t already running, gently bring it to the foreground if it has a window in the current space, or violently throw you to who knows where if the application has a…

From my all-time favorite README: “I don’t feel like killing you anymore,” offers Bond.

Professor Christine Korsgaard’s work on Kant is fascinating.

Palworld is pretty fun with friends!

Was lazy and made some cornbread from boxed mix today.

I recently migrated this site off of a unnamed hosted blogging platform.

Fetch is hard work!

I’ve recently started playing around with Elixir.

Favorite hojicha I’ve had so far.

conda singlehandedly takes up 85% of my zsh startup time (170 ms out of 200 ms)!!!

Just found Superkey by Ryan Hanson.

I wanted to jot down some notes from my experience compiling a command-line application written in Elixir to a statically-linked binary on macOS.

The docs say @requirements ["app.config"] should be sufficient, but that gave me this error: (RuntimeError) could not lookup App.Repo because it was not started or it does not exist UPDATE: app.start instead of app.config does work!

Hypothesis: as ∫prestige of institution dt → 1, P(grifter at institution) → 1.

Waiting for the clock to hit 5pm… 🐶

Hopefully my last Vim TIL for a while: embedded Lua in Vimscript in Neovim wasn’t working. nvim-treesitter + this in ~/.config/nvim/after/queries/vim/injections.scm works: ; extends (lua_statement (script (body) @injection.content) (#set!

Vim TIL: :Inspect() tells you the highlighting group of the text under the cursor; useful for creating color schemes.

Currently reading The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro.

Serious dog

I’d definitely rather have a pretty car than an ugly one.

Here’s how to make Firefox look like this: Install Sidebar Tabs, which does 99% of the work.

Finally looked up how to get Fastmail to automatically add (not accept) calendar invites.

Sad fire hydrant :’( In San Francisco.

Creative heated outdoor seating.

Here’s a condensed version of my Statement of Faith: On God: Jesus Christ, fully human and fully God, lived, died for our sins, and was resurrected.

Isuien Garden in Nara uses these cute rocks to mark closed paths

Currently reading: A Hero Born by Jin Yong 📚

🐶 selfie

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