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"This is my song And nothing can make it die It's been so long and it's stronger I know why" — Labi Siffre, My Song (YouTube) Note: Some blog posts advocate for a way of doing something.

I use Lix on aarch64-darwin without home-manager or nix-darwin.

Rust’s log crate crate is a thin macro interface for logging that can plug in to many different backends.

Rotary dial telephones are a fantastic way to start learning about electronics.

I had to install NixOS on my Raspberry Pi 4, Model B recently.

I use Nix Flakes on OSX to setup my development environment.

In this post, I’ll demonstrate how to score an animation using Orca.

While NixOS fully supports making restic backups using Backblaze, I couldn’t find documentation for it.

In NixOS, it’s sometimes desirable to override a package in order to extend or modify its behavior.

This is a list of places in Rust where implementing a trait or using a struct affects the syntax of your code.

Here’s how you wire up an AWS lambda into an HTTP API using Terraform and AWS’s API Gateway v2 resources.

In Jon Gjengset’s Demystifying Unsafe Code talk at Rust NYC, he gives a very interesting example of unsafe code.

A Few Things Like These (Ippatiyum Cila Vicayankal) Among birds, I like crows very much.

In the following code, how can you test that Player is making the correct API calls?

Here’s how you add a wireless printer to Sway.

By translating these poems, we aim to memorialize Xu, share some of his excellent literary work, and spread awareness that the harsh conditions, struggles and aspirations of Chinese migrant workers (including but not limited to Foxconn) have not diminished

One result of all the outside attention was the 2004 constitution [of Afghanistan], drafted with heavy Western input and hailed as one of the world’s most progressive.

Looking to keep the [Soviet–Afghan] war fueled, Washington– where the prevailing ethos was to bleed the Russians until the last Afghan– financed textbooks for schoolchildren in refugee camps that were festooned with illustrations of Kalashnikovs, swords,…

Something that Republican presidents love to do on their first day of office which is reinstate something known as the “global gag rule,” which is that agencies around the world which receive US support for their health programs are not allowed to provide…

This past January, when I started [teaching the post-emancipation African American history survey course], Obama was running in the primary against Hillary Clinton.

Working-class politics had so little room to maneuver in hard times that racial sympathy was shoved aside.

It may surprise you or not surprise you that when we went to Iraq in 2007, General Petraeus and I said, “Do you know why these people fighting?

The destroyers of the tea were dressed to look like indians and also professed imitate their speech they gave a “War Whoop” and the chiefs among them used an otherwise “unintelligible” mock Indian language which was then supposedly relayed to the other men

Years ago, I read a book by historian John Cell called The Highest Stage of White Supremacy.

Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual.

“Of course, the old thing that we always fear is tending to happen in the Association [the NAACP].

As a leading authority on women’s rights, Nancy F.

Black performance itself, first of all, was precisely “performative,” a cultural invention, not some precious essence instilled in black bodies; and for better or worse it was often a product of self-commodification, a way of getting along in a constricted

This white paternalism was described most memorably by SNCC veteran and historian Julian Bond, when he barbed: “Rosa [Parks] sat down, Martin [Luther King] stood up, and the white kids came down and saved the day.”

Now one final note about the school year and Little Rock.