Eric

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Into all things movement, making a deeper connection to my body. Also corrupted by Lisp at an early age.
Show threadEricJan 8
@grumpygamer what platform is that running on?
Show threadEricNov 25
@bud_t i bet there’s a generational difference on this subject.
EricNov 21
BodilNov 21

Since this seems to come up a lot, especially now with Windows being replaced by Copilot and Tim Apple being a frequent guest at the White House, I thought I'd write up my quick and objective guide to choosing Linux distros:

I just want something stable and easy to install that's still being maintained next century: Fedora.

I want a carefully hand crafted desktop experience curated for me by people who know what they're doing: KaOS.

I want to carefully hand craft my own desktop experience from scratch, I don't care how many wikis I have to read: Arch.

I think I'm somewhere in between those two extremes: Manjaro.

I'm a gamer: Bazzite.

I'm a Mac: Elementary.

I'm a Haskell weenie: NixOS.

I think rms made some good points: Debian.

I think Tommy Robinson made some good points: Omarchy.

I like South African billionaires: Ubuntu.

Show threadEricNov 20
@fogus yeah, this really hit me. he’s been working on forth for over 50 years, and a windows update (2 really) made him throw in the towel?!
Show threadEricNov 11
@grumpygamer 5 hours in, and i’ve enjoyed it. thanks for all the work.
EricMar 8, 2025

@rzeta0 not sure if portacle uses paredit or not, but you can cheat if you get stuck (this is what i'd do when i first learned paredit). you can mark a region with the offending parens, and kill-region (C-w). if you need to insert a paren with quoted-insert (C-q), followed by the paren you need. this can make things worse if you're not careful.

highly recommend http://danmidwood.com/content/2014/11/21/animated-paredit.html

The Animated Guide to Paredit

Dan's blog

EricMar 4, 2025
Show threadJack RusherMar 4, 2025
Thus it came as a refreshing surprise how simple *and* easy it is to just use a 4€/month VPS. It has monstrous specs for this purpose — 2 CPUs, 4GB RAM, 40GB SSD. Same Unix tools I’ve been using for 40 years. 5 minutes to setup Caddy to automate SSL cert renewal for me. I get to use rsync (as I have for 28 years!) to update my website. No terrible vendor-specific config bullshit, no concern that someone is going to rug pull these open source tools, just me happily getting shit done.
Show threadEricFeb 3, 2025
@plexus man, that's two clojure sharp edges i've learned about in the last week. (@nikitonsky and the #{} reader macro was surprising).
EricJan 27, 2025
Show threadrob pikeJan 24, 2025

@sjolsen It's the naming that matters. As someone who helped write a system often tagged with the 'everything is a file' meme, I would like to push back a bit, as the point of Plan 9 is not that everything is a file, but that most things can be named and managed through a file system interface, and that general interface model has great power.

So yes, it's about naming, it's always about naming and the access it provides.

Show threadEricJan 3, 2025
@nikitonsky @pointlessone dialogs back then were sometimes built with ui builders that just had fixed position elements, no algorithmic layout.. maybe this is the case.