These are so handy.

Beijing does 1 thing better than anywhere else I’ve been to: skewers.

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Knowing lots of facts without anything to unite them is like having a crappy Tetris board.

The ladder of abstraction is more a jungle gym.

I never thought I’d like carbonara.

It bugs me how I’ve read stories where a character comes to a major realization, often about life in general, says they’re changed, and then goes on to live their life in essentially the same way, with only minor tweaks.

I got sick of writing organized blog posts, so I’m going to compromise on clean blog posts and just dump thoughts.

Better known as the inventor of the bootstrap.

A teacher makes implicit knowledge explicit. Specifically, they make knowledge implicit in the teacher explicit.

Depending on context, \(x = y\) can mean any of:

Stupidity

Check out :options, especially if you’re new to configuring Vim (and want to).

Vim has a built-in scripting language. It’s what you write your vimrc in, and it’s really convenient for short one-off tasks.

My hatred of the fetish for acronyms in academia reminds me of Amberley Vail’s rants against Imperial Guard jargon in the Ciaphas Cain novels.

A lot of people I know seem to glory in their ignorance of the terminal. Which would be fine if they didn’t use it every day. Yes, bash is ugly. On the other hand, like many ugly things, it can be used as a brute tool to do a lot of mundane tasks.