Blog: 2023-09-08

Small link roll up

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/01/17/

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-29-1

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https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/option-to-keep-page-history-when-opening-a-link-to-a-new-tab/idi-p/4147 #favissue

looking at https://librewolf.net/

https://howqueryengineswork.com/00-introduction.html has some interest, but seems also a bit wordy. Could help me put the pieces together for a search engine kinda thing

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Now I'm thinking about how the apt cli is all over the place: dpkg, apt, apt-cache, apt-file. Would be nice to have a wrapper for various use cases. Or maybe the future is just to switch to nix

Useful weechat doc https://github.com/tspivey/notes/blob/master/weechat-setup.md

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Hierarchy of power in project build specifications

natural language documentation < data (json, yaml etc) < makefile < sh < general purpose programming language < application

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Started on a guide to apt. Got sidetracked just now trying to figure out what color my terminal font is, it's a pleasing gray compared to the bright-white on dark-black currently in use on my website.

The current rabbit hole is installing https://github.com/emersion/slurp to get https://github.com/sdushantha/farge working. I get this error:

$ meson build
[...]
protocol/meson.build:28:1: ERROR: File //usr/share/wayland-protocols/staging/cursor-shape/cursor-shape-v1.xml does not exist.