I'm an Emacs user and I have
been for the last decade. I use emacs for everything from code, to
posts on this blog, even down to my daily TODO list with Org
Mode. Naturally, I want to also use emacs to
edit posts on this blog. The only problem is that the blog uses
MDX instead of normal Markdown. There isn't an
Emacs major mode for MDX and the ticket for editor support in MDX
was closed. This should
mean that I'm out of luck and must architect a new major mode for
Emacs.
In the afternoon I finished To Green Angel Tower, Part
1,
book 3 of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams. I liked the book
and maybe this 3rd book (well, the first part of it) is slightly
better than the previous two. Recommended.
The evil minions of the undead Sithi Storm King are beginning their
final preparations for the kingdom-shattering culmination of their
dark sorceries, drawing King Elias ever deeper into their
nightmarish, spell-spun world.
As the Storm King’s power grows and the boundaries of time begin to
blur, the loyal allies of Prince Josua struggle to rally their
forces at the Stone of Farewell. There, too, Simon and the surviving
members of the League of the Scroll have gathered for a desperate
attempt to unravel mysteries from the forgotten past.
For if the League can reclaim these age-old secrets of magic
long-buried beneath the dusts of time, they may be able to reveal to
Josua and his army the only means of striking down the unslayable
foe....
In the evening I started in To Green Angel Tower, Part
2,
part 2 of book 3 of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn by Tad Williams.
In the early afternoon we took the bus to Schiedam and next the subway
to Rotterdam to visit Pebbles Kitty Cat
Café which is located a short
walk from one of the subway stops. Before we left the house I had made
a reservation, which is recommended, and we arrived just a few minutes
after our time slot had started.
Esme, Pixel the cat, and Alice.
Alice had asked some time ago to vist a cat café and Pebbles was the
closest to our house. It was very busy and most of the seven cats
where resting in high spots. After we had ordered cheese cake and
apple pie with whipped cream we were warned that it might attract the
cats and to not feed them.
After we had done quite some shopping we wanted to have dinner. First
we went to a Chinese restaurant we had visited in the past. But it was
fully booked. Earlier I had called an Indian restaurant but they were
also fully booked. So I looked for a restaurant nearby and we found
Alice Thai Street food. And they had room for us.
Thai food dish I ordered.
I can't recall the name of the dish I ordered but it was very good.
If you have hung out in Haskell communities, you might have heard
people mentioning concepts from the mathematical field of category
theory, perhaps even claiming that Haskell is built upon
category-theoretic foundations.
There is some truth to this, but I think it is more accurate to say
that certain abstractions in Haskell are inspired by category
theory. When learning Haskell, I took this connection too literally
and ended up confusing the hell out of myself. This post is aimed at
my former self and aims to clear up some confusions I came across
while trying to make sense of it all.
It took me 2 years, but I think now I love tcpdump. Before we go
into why – what’s tcpdump?
tcpdump is a tool that will tell you about network traffic on your
machine. I was scared of it for a long time and refused to learn how
to use it. Now I am wiser and I am here to show you that tcpdump is
awesome and there is no need to be scared of it. Let’s go!
Combobulate is a package that adds advanced structured editing and
movement to many programming modes in Emacs. Here's how it works,
and how it can enrich your editing experience in Emacs.
A field guide is a book designed to help identify birds, spiders, or
other animals while on a nature walk. Typically, these books are
very concise as you don’t want to bring a five volume encyclopaedia
to your bushwalk. They only contain the necessary details while
leaving out less important information.
This article is the first chapter of an attempt to create such a
guide for running and supporting JVM applications. A guide that is
concise only contains the necessary information, and can be used to
find a solution when encountering a problem in the field. As with
animal kingdoms, there are five fundamental resources that can
affect JVMs runtime: Memory, CPU, Disk IO, Network, and thread
synchronisation.
This article focuses on the first one – memory. Memory is an
extensive topic. There could be books written on how JVM
applications use memory, and it’s impossible for a single article to
cover the whole story. Instead, the guide focuses on the most
practical aspects of dealing with JVM applications, primarily
server-side ones, and provides plenty of references for those who’d
like to dive deeper.
You have a file with data you want to process with Pandas, and you
want to make sure you won’t run out of memory. How do you estimate
memory usage given the file size?
At times you may see estimates like these:
“Have 5 to 10 times as much RAM as the size of your dataset”, or
“several times the size of your dataset”, or
2×-3× the size of the dataset.
All of these estimates can both under- and over-estimate memory
usage, depending on the situation. In fact, I will go so far as to
say that estimating memory usage is just not worth doing.
In Hillel Wayne’s post “I am disappointed by dynamic
typing”,
he expresses his sense that the Python ecosystem doesn’t really make
the most of the possibilities that Python provides as a dynamically
typed language. This is an important subject, since every Python
program pays a very substantial set of costs for Python’s highly
dynamic nature, such as poor run-time performance, and
maintainability issues. Are we we getting anything out of this
tradeoff?
I knew from experience that serde_json::Value can't store borrowed
data. For my use case, I wanted to find a crate that allowed me to
borrow data from the JSON I was parsing, rather than needing a lot
of tiny allocations for each string. Since every object key in JSON
is a string, they add up quickly.
It’s time to get me up to speed with modern CSS. There’s so much new
in CSS that I know too little about. To change that I’ve started
#100DaysOfMoreOrLessModernCSS. Why more or less modern CSS? Because
some topics will be about cutting-edge features, while other stuff
has been around for quite a while already, but I just have little to
no experience with it.
As all Emacs users probably know, one of the very basic Emacs
concepts is the buffer. A few days ago I encountered an
(admittedly, not very common) situation when this came in very
handy.
I won't go into specific cases in this blog post. This is a general
guide on how to gather the necessary information that will help you
to get your problem fixed.
Screen is a terminal
multiplexer and has a wide feature set. It allows you to split your
terminal window into multiple windows (split screen feature), detach
sessions to let commands run in the background, connect to a device
via serial interface, and many more. Screen sessions keep running
even if you disconnect, which is especially great for unreliable
connections. There are more advanced use cases, but we will focus on
the basics.
With my open source work, I’ve historically taken an approach which
relies more on integration testing than unit testing, but with some
of my newer projects, I’ve tried adopting principles from $paidwork
and applying them to my free software.
This is a quick run-down of how I’m structuring my test suite in
newer projects. It’s likely that many of my existing projects will
never adopt this structure, but some may.
This is not a monad tutorial. You do not need to read this,
especially if you’re new to Haskell. Do something more useful with
your time. But if you will not be satisfied until you understand the
meme words, let’s proceed. I’ll assume knowledge of categories,
functors, and natural transformations.
