flylikeabanana

Hello! I'm a functional programmer with lots of experince doing distributed systems in regulated environments. I left my job as Tech Lead in an extractive industry to seek roles with missions that align more closely with my own - I'm looking for opportunities to make a positive impact (in e.g. climate tech or med/bio tech). I'm also a "people person" so I'm happy to teach, lead, or represent as well.

Comment · 1 year ago

I run emacs on MacOS specifying the `emacs-pgtk` build in my Nix config as the package. Seems to work quite well for me

Comment · 1 year ago

They're fun little tinker devices, cheap enough that you can get multiple and play around with different form factors or loan out to friends

Comment · 1 year ago

You'll note it specifies AMD devices, i.e. x86-64 architecture

Comment · 1 year ago

I don't believe there's Bazzite or SteamOS available for ARM devices, which make up most of the "portable handheld" market in terms of device variety

Comment · 1 year ago

MJ stays in your body long after the effects have worn off. You can test positive weeks after consumption.

Comment · 2 years ago

>The problem is will you admit you were dead wrong and potentially spewing propaganda if democracy survives Trump’s second term?

The answer to this question is the same as the answer to "what if climate change is a hoax", and that is that I would love to be wrong and would gladly admit it rather than live under a dictator or on a dying planet

Comment · 2 years ago

The recently released Minisforum V3 AMD tablet has this:

https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-v3

Comment · 2 years ago

I got several morale game overs (one of them from a 12 year old bully, that didn't feel good) before I realized there's a button to take Magnesium to restore the lost sanity. So I feel you, but I pressed on and it's a quite rewarding gaming experience

Comment · 2 years ago

One way would be to use emacs’ artist-mode to draw ascii lines and boxes then use ditaa[1] to transform them into images. It’s not a pretty packaged GUI app but it’s certainly an option

[1] https://ditaa.sourceforge.net/

Comment · 2 years ago

Tenkeyless (TKL) keyboards are popular because you can keep your mouse hand closer to your keyboard. The tenkey is a easy thing to lose if you don't do much data entry.

As for writing code and playing games, I use vim keybinds everywhere and play games with WASD controls. So nav keys aren't particularly critical either.

Comment · 2 years ago

There are screen protectors with a rough/matte finish that provide some of the friction you'd get from paper. It's not exactly the same, but it's a discrete step above writing on raw glass

Comment · 2 years ago

I don't know if there's a way to indicate a project with the built-in project.el without a VC root. The other feature i use regularly that I don't think exists in project.el is projectile-toggle-between-implementation-and-test, which does exactly what it sounds like. You can configure it by build tool and give it path regexes to substitute to specify how to find the corresponding Spec for a file.

I actually use a mix of both. Project.el being built in means it properly leverages the built-in completion stuff, which has a level of awareness for the types of things I search and gives appropriate icons and context information (see all-the-icons-completion[1] for details). I fibbed a little bit about my workflow - to switch projects and find a file I use this:

  (defun project-find-file-from-projectile-project ()
    (interactive)
    (project-switch-project (completing-read "From which project?" projectile-known-projects)))

[1] https://github.com/iyefrat/all-the-icons-completion