Yulqen

Rails, Bootstrap, Neovim and then a bunch of flight simming links, then back to our old friend, Derek Sivers.

HIYA!

Mountains of stuff over the last four weeks….

Big mixture of stuff in this one.

Inspired by https://hunden.linuxkompis.se/2023/11/09/my-default-applications-2023.html: Type Description Operating system: Arch Linux (on desktop and laptops); Debian on servers Window manager: i3 Web browser: Librewolf, Firefox Web feed client: Newsboat…

Happy Guy Faulkes Day.

Been a bit of a crazy week or two, looking stuff up.

Have implemented pagination on this stream.

Got a great game of golf in though - at Gullane No. 2.

A ginger cat beneath a stool, sheltering from the rain: Storm Babet has been and gone.

Been quite a busy week of linking this week, so here it is.

Started to use rclone recently to back up my files to a remote server.

A book about poetry.

If you’re a Scotland rugby fan, you can’t help but be embarrassed by their performance against Ireland on Saturday (a sorry 36-14 loss), for the following reasons.

Absolutely pissing with rain here in Berwick since about 7pm last night, and forecast to continue all day today.

Introducing Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding No one actually wants simplicity - lukeplant.me.uk CMake Ninja Multi-Config generator | Scientific Computing Some bullshit about CMake: FAQ · Wiki · CMake / Community · GitLab CMake

Good Integration Practices — pytest documentation GOOD?

The Little Go Book Justin Hawkins / htmx, embedded assets and html/template Building Microservices with Go: 2.

Watch “How to Start a Golang Project Right” on YouTube Revolut - The Prepaid Card for The UK and Abroad 🧠️ Personal Knowledge Management Discussion / With Omar Khafagy C++ is Good for the Economy, It Creates Jobs!

I’m back on vim.

Lots more stuff this week.

After many years of slagging off VSCode and being a total vim snob (and oftentimes an Emacs snob - even worse), today I did a big switch to VSCode.

Not posted for a while.

CompVis/stable-diffusion-v1-4 · Hugging Face Watch “Exploring an AI’s Imagination (Stable Diffusion and MidJourney)” on YouTube Faircode model Watch “Go is great for command-line tools” on YouTube Why Perl?

Git from the inside out Bugbytes - Lots of good Django tutorials The Free Software Media System / Jellyfin Home / Flathub Redis and Python Secure email: Tutanota free encrypted email.

gnome-web is totally broken for me.

sqlitedict - a Python library to persist dictionaries Watch “Bash Scripting Full Course 3 Hours” on YouTube github An On-Ramp to Flow Simply explained: how does GPT work?

- TLDR: “I’m not clever enough and life is too short.”.

This this is a really nice use of AI.

Introduction Much of the material on the internet tells you how to use taskwarrior, but little of it explains why you should use it.

Some good advice on using htmx with Django: https://github.com/guettli/django-htmx-fun/.

I need to do some updating to this journal because a couple of days ago I implemented a matrix server and I need to document it.

This is a new journal where I intend to dump technical stuff.

The cats have started killing again.

I tried Github Pages with Jekyll and it didn’t go well.

Up and more configuring of the X1 laptop - today fixing the VSCode implementation, which is working quite nicely now.

I am struggling with NixOS.

Keeping the fires warm…

HNY.

Happy to be a contributor to Denote which is a simple Emacs package for notetaking.

Interesting article in Guardian on the literature of the eerie English landscape

We now have automated builds for this site on Sourcehut, which I have recently started using.

Hello!

Cold and wet today.

Inspired by now defunct British Journal of Photography (print edition; RIP) and Roger Ballen.

Been reconfiguring computers.

The purpose of a budget is to help thy purse to fatten.

Lovely bright day today.

Coming from a Linux background, creating drives on OpenBSD is a little weird.

Didn’t get on in time to mark it yesterday so marking it now.