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<p>I started collecting music as soon as I found out about this new hot format called MP3 back in the 90s. Then I lost it all to streaming services - I probably still could recover it, but that would require going through old backups. And most of it was pirated anyway, which contradicts my current views on how things should work in the world (so does using Spotify, because artists get next to…
<p>It is obvious that the hardest part (by far, far, very far) of the work was done a while ago, when the amazing people from the Cologne University in Germany digitized and published <a href="https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/">Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries</a>. They even made all the 36 or more dictionaries available online for anybody to use (and in different formats too).</p>…
<p>The question was asked once again — so I'm writing some code into REPL and seeing the results, but that's not very convenient. So I decided to write a small intro on how to do interactive development (a.k.a. REPL-driven development) conveniently.</p> <p>So, to get the elephant out of the room first: <em>we almost never need to type anything into REPL</em>. The only exception are commands from…
<p>At the time of the interview veteran General Heitor Hamilton Almendra was 92 years old, but you could never tell it by his lively spirit and vivid memory. It was a rare honor to be able to bring some of his stories to a broader audience.</p>
<p>So today we look at an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CwQF70VMWS3/">instagram post</a> by renowned Danish director Lars von Trier:</p> <img src="/media/lars-post.png" alt="Lars von Trier instagram post saying To Mr. Zelenskyj and Mr. Putin, and not least Mrs. Frederiksen (who yesterday, like someone head over heels in love, posed in the cockpit of one of the scariest killing machines of…
<p>Mastodon user @kravietz@agora.echelon.pt wrote a small <a href="https://agora.echelon.pl/objects/5ee2533d-a0be-4e30-b797-5546341dd5d9">post</a> on how the Russian army behaved during the Afghan war of 1979-89 quoting soldier memoirs<sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn1" id="fnref1">[1]</a></sup>, noting that nothing has changed in their behavior and they still act the same today:</p>…
<h2>The Inspiration</h2> <p>I had a short <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@yogthos@lemmy.ml/110672976582947303">discussion</a> on Mastodon today that started with this post:</p> <img src="/media/yogthos-toot.png" alt="@yogthos toot saying: Canadian ‘aid’ program set the table for post-Maidan coup land privatization drive"> <p>Since this was a stone thrown at Ukraine I had to participate.</p> <p>But…
<h1>Intro</h1> <p>I have spent a few hours today making sure that my emails get delivered to my offline inbox as soon as they appear on the server, and that this happens for each of my email accounts.</p> <h2>Tools</h2> <p>I assume that you already have your favorite offline email management tool (mu, notmuch etc.) set up and your emails are synced with something like mbsync (isync). So you've got…
<p>Git hooks are scripts that Git executes before or after one of the following events: commit, push, and receive.</p> <p>By default a git repository comes with a bunch of sample hooks, located in <code>.git/hooks</code> directory. Let's look at a <code>pre-commit.sample</code> hook. This is a 50 line script that checks, that the files you're committing do not contain any non-ascii characters.…
<p>Yesterday a strange thing happened. You have probably seen it:</p> <img src="/media/musks-tweet-2.png" alt="Elon Musk's about Russian invasion to Ukraine"> <p>I'm not going to concentrate on all the ways posting this was wrong. I expect there will be a shit storm strong enough without my five cents. In the spirit of this blog I'm more interested in the questions relating to thinking and…
<p>Writing is a tool. And as any good tool it can be used for many things. Sharing information. Telling stories. Messaging. Influencing people to make the choice you want them to make. All these uses were clear to me for a long time, and they all were pretty self-explanatory.</p> <p>There was one special use though, that I was wondering about for a long time.</p> <h1>Writing helps you think.</h1>…