Laugh/cry that this is necessary. Also, where did you find a $2 VPS?

I want Emacs and SML/OCaml to get modern rewrites because otherwise there's so many good ideas we'll use.

Hey @anil.recoil.org do you have a writeup somewhere of how your website works? I visited it for the first time in a while and see some things I'd like to steal 😛

Dear lazyweb, if I wanted to build a compiler back-end that targeted multiple architectures (x84-64, arm64, maybe WASM), is there a standard-ish intermediate representation I could take as input? Ideally something simpler than LLVM IR?

Avengers: Doomsday | Only in Theaters December 18, 2026 YouTube video by Marvel Entertainment

Can't shake the feeling that no one is in charge at Marvel.

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The more I look into containers and Nix (and related) the more I feel like Docker squandered a golden opportunity by making Dockerfiles be essentially shell scripts rather declarative specifications for reproducible builds.

Starting to do some sysadmin and server deployment work and really wishing there was a bastard love child of Docker, Nix and Alpine Linux. With a sane scripting language of course.

What's the best way to generate a good looking PDF and a decent looking webpage from the same source? Looks like Typst just added an initial version of their HTML output, but maybe Latex is still the most mature and capable?

What is Orena?

Is this good or bad?

The language itself is pretty good, though I'm not thrilled by a lot of the tooling and ecosystem around it. Hopefully there's a way of writing usable code in it that keeps the messiness at bay.

I should suck it up and learn to program properly in TypeScript. There's a growing list of software that I'd like to use and extend that uses TypeScript (Obsidian, Lume, Fedify), not to mention its utility for web programming.

Yeah, I think you're right. I don't know if I would use it for programming, but for a website, or note-taking it seems nice. I think I'll stick to Catppuccin for programming for now.

Flexoki An inky color scheme for prose and code.

I'm a sucker for a good color scheme, and Flexoki by Stephan Ango is a keeper. It's similar to Solarized but brighter and with more contrast. And yes, I am tempted to adapt it as a color scheme for my site.

stephango.com/flexoki

Re-asserting Ownership Islands of ownership in a sea of rentals

Some thoughts on re-asserting ownership in age where everything is rented:

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Steam Spring Sale Haul Picked up some games I don't need and might never play

I wrote about my Steam Spring Sale haul, which made me think about the positive effects of getting things for yourself.

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Picotron

I found the Picotron, a retro-nostalgic computing experiment that is "a Fantasy Workstation: a self-contained creative environment built for imaginary hardware".

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Sunday Selection 2025-03-16 Some things that have influenced my thinking on mastery

For today's Sunday Selection, I collected some things that have influenced my thinking on mastery over the last year.

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Home-cooked Software An application of LLMs that I'm actually excited about

This week I finally came around to the idea of using LLMs for programming, especially when it comes to building home-cooked software: v4.basus.me/journal/2024...

Added my first Bay Area restaurant to my to-go list on Google Maps today.

Love how modern CSS makes it easy to make complex custom layouts so that we can spend all our time pixel peeping.

Sunday Selection 2025-03-09 A smattering of homegrown websites

Today's Sunday Selection contains a smattering of homegrown websites and the first non-fiction book I've read this year.

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I moved my bookmarks from Pinboard to Raindrop and in the process realized that I have bookmarks going back all the way to 2016. Sadly, a lot of the oldest links are now dead. Memento mori, this too shall pass, all things are impermanent, etc. etc.

Why is FREEDOM not an option?

wyd A quick script to summarize all the work I've done today

I put together a little script to help me keep track of what work I've done during the day, and in the process got much more comfortable with shell scripting.

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I’m totally gonna watch this, but like… why?!

Darkroom Darkroom: The most efficient photo & video editor with powerful AI tools and presets for effortless creativity, on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and VisionOS

I’ve been considering Darkroom, at least on Apple devices.

darkroom.co

Lightroom replacement?

How do you get it to work with Deno? I’m pretty new to Typescript, still figuring out package management.

I really want to go deep into a programming language and ecosystem, but every project I can think of involves a different one.