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2019-12-15

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Twitter: 2019-12-15 Sun 12:34

I like Python’s type hints. They’re a very clever solution to a tricky problem.

I hate Python’s type hints. They’re a very clever solution to a tricky problem.

https://twitter.com/anthonypjshaw/status/1205959927337893888

hackers.town: 2019-12-15 Sun 13:31

Slowly but surely making my way through the task list. If only I could stop adding to it.

hackers.town: 2019-12-15 Sun 13:50

@rabcyr if only

hackers.town: 2019-12-15 Sun 14:22

I wrote a note:

Again with the manual symmetry

https://randomgeekery.org/note/2019/349/again-with-the-manual-symmetry/

hackers.town: 2019-12-15 Sun 14:29

@drskrzyk I’m glad you like it!

Though I’d prefer to minimize cardiac arrest reactions to my work.

hackers.town: 2019-12-15 Sun 14:33

@drskrzyk Cool! I never would have thought of that.

That’s the fun thing with drawings that aren’t of anything. Everybody’s brain gets to play.

hackers.town: 2019-12-15 Sun 14:42

@drskrzyk nope, I ended up using Dropbox for Orgzly.

Somewhere in my very long task list is setting up NextCloud so I can use WebDAV with apps/services that support it.

hackers.town: 2019-12-15 Sun 14:49

@drskrzyk Well dang that’s disappointing.

Emacs is sort of my “experimental” workflow. “Regular” is the classic Vim user hodgepodge.

So naturally I’m also looking at todo.txt for the sort of quick thoughts I’m likely to come up with on mobile.

hackers.town: 2019-12-15 Sun 14:50

@lecramed Ooh that’s definitely worth looking into.

hackers.town: 2019-12-15 Sun 14:50

https://hackers.town/users/lecramed/statuses/103314001556952199

hackers.town: 2019-12-15 Sun 14:53

@drskrzyk I just added a pile of Vim plugins. After I sort through which ones I like, blog posts are inevitable.

But VimWiki, with files themselves synced to my assorted desktops via Syncthing, is off to a promising start!

hackers.town: 2019-12-15 Sun 15:02

@drskrzyk magit rocks! I finally figured out that what I thought was “giving up” was more a continual process of exploring and checking in.

Still, it would be nice to be really good at one thing rather than painfully aware of how much cool stuff there is.

hackers.town: 2019-12-15 Sun 15:05

@drskrzyk @wizard@welovela.in I had issues but that was a few years back and was more about general frustrations syncthing was giving me at the time.

I’ll have to revisit. Thank you!

Twitter: 2019-12-15 Sun 16:55

While true, this is also a real problem with platforms like Twitter. Sometimes we just want to grumble amicably about the things we love (hello Perl!).

Our friends get it, but it goes into the Forever Firehose context-free.

https://twitter.com/brettsky/status/1206315202033020928

hackers.town: 2019-12-15 Sun 17:42

Adding custom binding for vim-bookmarks before I hurt myself.

ma is default binding for BookmarkShowAll and also deeply embedded muscle memory for marking a location the regular way.

hackers.town: 2019-12-15 Sun 17:45

@lordbowlich Pinafore is real nice.

Twitter: 2019-12-15 Sun 18:23

Back before we put safety shielding on our magnetic drives.

https://twitter.com/thomasfuchs/status/1206383760620441601

hackers.town: 2019-12-15 Sun 19:22

@y0x3y @drskrzyk VimWiki gives a solid foundation, that’s for sure. Doesn’t have the kitchen sink approach of org, but that might be a good thing.

hackers.town: 2019-12-15 Sun 19:25

39 hours of #drawing in #Procreate squished down to 30 seconds.

3b8356db1eafe280.mp4

hackers.town: 2019-12-15 Sun 19:26

and for the sake of thread closure, a link to the finished pic:

https://randomgeekery.org/note/2019/349/again-with-the-manual-symmetry/