I’ve been playing around with SafeRefCounted, a relatively recent addition to the D programming language. It has some nice features. I could see it being useful to work with/port C code.
There’s a lot of talk about how useful LLMs are for programming. In spite of my initial tests, which didn’t go very well, they may be right.
I like using ess (Emacs Speaks Statistics) for editing R code. It was the original IDE for R. While there’s nothing wrong with RStudio, and I do use it for teaching, it’s a bit heavy both in terms of resources and design choices for me to use it f...
Many of the blogs I used to read have disappeared. There have been numerous comments posted all over the internet saying that blogging is a waste of time. According to this story, social media makes it much easier to reach a big audience, so it d...
Quick post today on what you need to manage tasks for GTD. I hate the trend toward complicated task management tools. All you need is a few features. You can even do your task management on paper (though electronic tools work better). Low-fri...
This is a comment on a Reddit post. I don’t have much motivation to dump my content into someone else’s walled garden, so I’m putting it here instead. The general point being made is the same one that comes up all the time in discussions of GTD. ...
I finally got around to adding an RSS feed to this blog. I implemented it following the instructions in this post. You can see the implementation in the Github repo for the blog. In _config.yml, I added a title and the jekyll-feed plugin. In heade...
This is an example of how to use Fossil as a JSON database. What we’ll do is use the tickets database to store records in JSON format, and then we’ll query those records using SQLite. The tickets database will be pushed to the remote repository an...
I was genuinely puzzled by a problem with htmx, and I could not find it addressed anywhere in the documentation. For unknown reasons, the links would just not work - they’d always reload the page rather than sending a request to the server. I even...
I’ve been using htmx recently for an app that runs in my browser on localhost. Although I had seen htmx a long time ago, I’m not a web developer, so I didn’t care to understand what it does. As it turns out, it makes it easy to write a single page...