not all containers are made equal

So if you want to give another spin to your container knowledge, you know there are a few projects that relate to containers and are not just docker.

- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/systemd-nspawn
- https://voidlinux.org/news/2017/12/advent-containers.html
- https://www.infoq.com/articles/containers-hypervisors-2019/
- https://github.com/p8952/bocker
- https://dev.to/napicella/containers-from-scratch-in-18-lines-of-code-3pmn
- https://ericchiang.github.io/post/containers-from-scratch/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15608435
- https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/2020/02/docker-images-part1-reducing-image-size.html

And here is a cool 'build-your-own-docker' talk

Larry Tesler RIP, Bert Sutherland RIP

Very sad week for our field. Two great great great pioneers on the computer science, human-computer-interface, and thought advancing concepts left the analogic world.

There are a bunch of stories in these HN links:

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22361282
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22370667

Transitive closure in k, and more

I found this gist on finding reachable nodes in a graph super entertaining. Every time I read on APL/J/K I feel this intense deep puzzle solving that heats my brain a little bit, but feels awesome when you arrive at the end. And it all makes sense there.

About 10 years ago I was having those feelings with the Shwartzian transform and JAPHs around the net.  Perl is the gateway drug.



Btw, if you want some more, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Mt0GYHU9A or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzPd3umu78g .

spicing up your prompt

I've been using this very silly overloading of the prompt for some time, and even though it's dead simple, it gets to cheer me up sometimes.

On every emacs startup, and every 24 hours, you get  a different message on your prompt when 'm-x'.

Happy hacking,

disable screen blank/sleep on idle

I've finally switched to more barebones linux distros again. Now I'm on NixOS and Void.

Void is minimalist and lightweight, with a textual installation process, like vectorlinux had (using text dialogs and menus).

I just found out that the way to keep the screen from going blank after some mouse/keyboard idle time is  xset s off -dpms. That saves you from any ad-hoc command line fu when watching movies with that girl.

Latest Awesome Emacs Developments

In the last month or so, a great wealth of new Emacs stuff has been developing in both core and community.

We know that in free software projects (communities, that is) some branches might take a long time to develop, but some others

tree-sitter: Integrating this project opensourced by github. This could mean a new way of syntax highlight that doesn't drag, smarter indentation, and completions. Eli mentioned it in the emacs mail list and people are looking into it.

Yet another jitter, by Andrea Corrallo.  Another approach to make emacs' elisp code run faster.  There have already been many attempts to this (Guilemacs, "El Compilador", and others). Will this be the one?  From the highest level perspective, I like "el compilador" the most, because it's kinda smalltalkish, but hey,... I don't have the knowledge to hack on any of those, so whatever the wizards pick, I'm good with it. Also, see mailing list.

SystemE : Replace Systemd with runit? nope, geekier.

Emacs Application Framework because you can also have proper gui controls.
 
Animations in elisp (text)

OM. higher level org parsing

doct declarative org-capture templates.

More META-II

So there's a new article on the internet about META-II!  And not just that, but it also talks about Forth!  And not just that, but it also talks about raku!


That thing alone already deserves a detailed browsing of the whole blog.