Curious About GoodReads Reviews and Bullying
Preamble (Bullying is Bad, Try Telling the Bullies That) Amazon and GoodReads are both prominent places to review books. – My Humble Opinion is to prefer GoodReads, since I don’t use Kindle. I’ve written before about GoodReads: Wondering if people who read books more were less impressed by good books than people who weren’t as well read; and looking at [...]
Tabs vs Spaces and Elastic Tabs
I was surprised to discover I’ve not written about “tabs vs spaces” before, despite all my love for writing about editors. What’s “Tabs vs Spaces” All About? The less something matters, the more programmers will argue over it. (No, not “bikeshedding”, which is similar, but doesn’t quite account for things like programmers arguing over different programming languages.).
Grammarians are [...]
Open Letter Regarding Kate Breslin's "For Such a Time", and Diversity in Romance
So, Sarah Wendell’s Letter to the RWA regarding “For Such a Time” came to my attention; shortly after Suleikha Snyder’s rundown of RWA did. Snyder’s Post Snyder’s post is easier to summarise: She first says how great it was to meet with friends at RWA, then goes on to lament her other experience she describes as “a convergence of microaggressions.”. [...]
Impressions of Emacs and Org Mode
I’m a moderately capable Vim user.
I’ve not quite gained the habit of trying to constantly improve using Vim; but at the same time, I’m not exactly using it as something only slightly better than Notepad++. Lately I’ve been taking quick glances at Emacs.
I was impressed by this post from GitHub user bling, who suggests that Vim [...]
Notes, OneNote and Org Mode
[Updated 2018-11; my understanding of org-mode has improved] OneNote Roughly: A OneNote Notebook has Sections, and Pages within the section. Editing the notes in a page feels similar to editing a simple Word document. Org Mode Roughly: org-mode is a renowned organisation tool, which is built on top of Emacs.
org files are plaintext, with notes structured using a [...]
Case Study in Vim Plugin Development
I don’t know a lot about writing plugins.
My own experience goes as far as trying to write a plugin for Eclipse (which gets very complicated as soon as a plugin isn’t a “monolithic” bundle); as well as writing a quite small plugin for my C worksheet. (The fanciest thing it does is to download a JAR archive dependency [...]
Comical Conservative
Came across this on Facebook: Liberal: I am pro-choice
Me: Can I choose my own health care?
Liberal: No.
Me: Can I choose what I do with money I earn?
Liberal: No.
Me: Can I choose how I defend my family and possessions?
Liberal: No.
Me: What can I choose?
Liberal: An [...]
Beware Radicalisation
Shot(s): When Nerds Collide by @maradydd / Meredith Patterson, 2014 Mar (Bonus: Okay, Feminism, It’s Time We Had a Talk About Empathy, 2013 Oct).
Chaser: Meredith Patterson’s valient effort is probably doomed by @esrtweet / Eric S. Raymond, 2015 Jan. Well, at least ERS hedges by saying ‘probably’. I read the above two pieces from [...]
Romance Tropes in Anime vs Romance Novels
Recently I’ve finished playing Valkyria Chronicles and If My Heart Had Wings.
Valkyria Chronicles, recently released for PC (earlier released on PlayStation 3) is a strategy game; featuring a bunch of cute boys & girls in cutesy uniforms with rifles in an almost WWII-esque setting.
If My Heart Had Wings is a ‘visual novel’; the story is about [...]
Pretty HG Log Style
There’s a somewhat famous styled git log I have in my config. The guy I grabbed it from said it was from scm-breeze, I think maybe he meant tiimgreen’s github-cheat-sheet. In any case, The Git one is like:
%h - [...]
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