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The original article was written purely on gut feel and internal common sense. Out of curiosity, I went digging for confirmation and sources that could support the arguments presented in the original. Yes, I know it proves nothing; there are likely many references for counterarguments, but I still find it interesting and a good base […]
The eco is remembrance itself — only what endures is ever written into it. “Evolution is not our path, it is our eco.” — Phil Marneweck We often speak about humans “evolving,” but in truth, what we do is adapt. Evolution isn’t something we consciously walk along — it’s the echo left behind when adaptation […]
In 2016 I decided to have another go at writing my own database because I wanted a database that was blindingly fast for queries but with files that are machine and human-readable. Not to mention that I have a fondness/weakness for plists. Thus cl-naive-store was born. Like any pet project, it took on a life […]
There are thousands of articles and entries in stackexchange but none of them worked for me out of the box. So after hours of battling with this issue here is my short recipe. Create the Root Key: openssl genrsa -out rootCA.key 2048 Self-sign this root certificate: openssl req -x509 -new -nodes -key rootCA.key -sha256 -days […]
So far I had to remap the following key-bindings to not interfere with emacs. You can use dconf-editor to view all the org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings and even edit them. Here is the list I remapped and what I the remapping using gsettings: Alt+` Ctrl+Alt+Down Ctrl+Alt+Left Ctrl+Alt+Right Ctrl+Alt+Up
I often find little gems of where lisp is used and where it was used in history but if you google for it later you cant find it. So I am starting my own little list, inspired by this reddit post. Formal JavaScript Semantics The current ECMAScript semantics are written informally and contain many amgibuities […]
Since 2007 when I started using Ubuntu I have been doing upgrades to the latest version a month before the release. Yes I am a sucker for pain. After the upgrade to 19.04 today I had issues loading projects that used cl-ssl getting the following error: The fix was (after trying installing latest sbcl first) […]
While reading up about hooks I ran into a blog post by Daishi Kato about a custom useFetch hook. Having a purely hate relationship with fetch in react-native it immediately caught my eye! In the blog post I learned that suspense could solve the fetching of data conundrum. Hooks where forgotten and I went googling […]
I wanted to try Suspense so spun up an new project with react-native init in 0.59.0-rc.3 (react-native init myprojectname –version react-native@next) . The examples for Suspense I found also used hooks. So I thought fine might as well investigate that to. So I cut and paste code into the App.js, this got syntax errors and […]
I had to install react-native on a clean laptop so I thought I would pen this recipe to my self and any others who need a quick reference. Firstly I need to say that react-native is much easier to get up and running than it was 6 months ago! The install of components was never […]