While learning OCaml I’ve noticed one curious feature - it has two types of string literals. The first type are the common and quite familiar “double-quoted string literals” (or perhaps simply “str...

You might have noticed one change introduced with Bundler 2.3 - it now requires you to run the version of Bundler that’s specified in your Gemfile.lock.1 This means that occasionally you might see ...

This is going to be one super short post. A couple of years ago I disabled the comments here for various reasons. Given my overall positive experience with Hyvor Talk as a comments service for my ...

Ruby programmers are commonly called Rubyists. Python programmers are often called Pythonistas. Lisp programmers are widely known as Lispers. Clojure programmers are sometimes called Clojurians. O...

Another year is behind us and it’s time for the obligatory “year in review” blog post. I’ve been feeling a bit lazy, that’s why I’m getting to writing it a bit of a delay, but you’ll forgive me. 2...

Twitter these days is all about drama related to… Twitter (Elon Musk). That really pains me, given that as long as it has existed Twitter has been the only social network that I’ve truly enjoyed us...

Someone complained earlier today that my Pixel 6A article was picked up by Planet Emacslife. While I wasn’t involved in adding my blog there and I never promised to write exclusively about Emacs, t...

A couple of weeks ago I made a spectacular and quite unexpected return to Android, after a long period of being exclusively in Apple’s mobile devices ecosystem. My last Android phone was the Sony X...

From time to time it’s useful to know who are main authors of some piece of a project. Admittedly most of the time I want to check who are the top contributors to some Git repository I’d use a web...

Today someone asked in OCaml’s Discord “How do you call a variable that refers to a filename without its extension?”. I always thought there was no specific term for this and I always named such va...