Ruby 3.1 was recently released and it features one major syntax addition - you can now omit values in hash literals and keyword arguments in certain cases.1 The release notes give the following exa...

I was surprised to learn that Windows has added support for Unix sockets (AF_UNIX) a few years ago (in 2017). From the announcement article: Beginning in Insider Build 17063, you’ll be able to ...

While working on my year in review article for 2021 I once again realized that my writing process is very similar to my programming process.1 Simply put - it involves many iterations and refinement...

Celebrate endings – for they precede new beginnings. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie It’s the final day of 2021 and tradition dictates that we should reflect on the year behind us. I like writing suc...

Today I came across this great summary of the concept of interactive programming: Development in Common Lisp is interactive. There’s no separate compile/run/debug cycle. Instead of that, the pr...

A couple of weeks ago I got myself a new laptop to replace my old MacBook 12-inch from 2017. As my followers might remember I was planning to buy either an M1-powered MacBook Air or the brand new ...

On Dec 18th, 2021, Perl turned 34!1 Here’s how it all started: a “replacement” for awk and sed [ Perl is kind of designed to make awk and sed semi-obsolete. This posting will include the f...

Today I’ve noticed that updates to my site resulted in GitHub Pages deployment errors, even though everything was working fine locally with jekyll --serve and I hadn’t changed my site’s config.yml ...

Yesterday the pure GTK (a.k.a. pgtk) feature branch was finally merged in Emacs’s master. In a recent article I mentioned I was super excited about it, because this meant proper Wayland support for...

Today I’ve learned about edamagit, a super faithful port of Magit for VS Code. It looks pretty similar to Magit and even has the same keybindings as Magit (e.g. you display it with M-x g). I’ve ...