Kindness City Blog

The Adventures of Alice and Bob in The Corporate Borderlands A working space.

Go and watch Steve Mould's video about bouncing balls and trampolines.

Introducing The Grumpystack Analogue Public Licence.

In the 90s, I was one of quite a few angry linux-evangelizing teenagers who hated Microsoft with the kind of all-consuming passion usually only available to the blissfully young and inexperienced.

New on grumpystack.uk : You probably don't need Microsoft Github Tags: internet sysadmin ux web grumpy

It's in the name.

I really want to write software that's actually good.

If you're both an Emacs user and a Nix user, then you should probably be using direnv with the use flake directive, and the emacs-direnv package1 for the best possible experience.

A lot of folks seem to be worried about the future of Firefox these days. 1 So what if you have an enormous collection of Firefox bookmarks built up over the years, and you don't want to lose them if you have to switch browsers for whatever reason?

TL;DR: Here're a couple of handy functions to quickly try out all the dark-mode / light-mode themes you've already got installed, and pick the one that feels right for now.

The problem I got an email that was sent from a french email client.

A game for as many players as you like.

From Agility to Stability I think we could plot basically all software projects1 on this graph: On the X axis, I'm measuring uncertainty.

Recently, I heard a common argument about the validity of trans people, and their experiences.

Why don't we inline our tests with our code?

It is common knowledge that social media "algorithms" (or perhaps "heuristics" if you prefer) in 2022 seem to amplify rage.

In this reddit post, u/awannaphasch2016 asks what tasks cause folks to leave emacs.

Some cool things I ran across recently: Edbrowse Htmlq Gron Edbrowse You may know of ed (the POSIX standard text editor).

Vi vs Vim vs Emacs There was some chatter at work recently about vim vs emacs.

Exploring Bash Process Substitution Recently, while debugging some old bash scripts, my pair and I came across a command that looked like yq eval "$KEY = \"$VAL\"" -- <(echo "$CURRENT_NOTES") My pair hadn't previously had the chance to fully grok the <( t…

Some things I read about recently… Not being an attrition statistic I really enjoyed reading Julie Pagano's 2016 guide to not being an attrition statistic if you're in a marginalised or under-represented group.

Hello World As is surely traditional, the first post on this blog is both: A test that the blogging software works.