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Library Discernment

This is extracted from a document I wrote ~2 years ago about making it easy to find and assess-for-fit internal libraries. Some of these items are both an evaluation criterion and a suggestion for the production of high-quality libraries.

Digital Etiquette

I’d like to signal-boost a couple of well-written posts. (Apparently this is becoming an annual August tradition.)

NetworkManager resetting hostname to localhost.localdomain

I explain (as best I can) how I figured out what screwed up my machine’s hostname the day before a vacation.

Improving Git Search Performance

In reply to Searching for and navigating Git commits.

Modelling language or controlling it?

Machines should bend to suit humans (centaurs), not humans bend to suit machines (reverse centaurs).

Chats on LLMs

Collected from Discord

Notes on Racket quit handlers

Notes from Discord.

xrandr brightness glitch

I’ve had this glitch twice now, where I wake up my external monitor and the screen is washed out with brightness. I can see enough to try to fix it, but it’s not the hardware brightness settings. The software brightness settings are out of wack.

Rusty Boat Retrospective

Brief reflections on implementing Raft in Rust.

MT7925e Bluetooth woes

Some details on an error I had today and the seeming resolution.