Ebook formats
This is just collection of alternatives to EPub for electronic
books and similar stuff.
On Structured Regular Expressions and neovim (and vis)
(meant as an extended comment on neovim’s bug #8457: “Support
sam/vim Structured Regular Expressions?”)
This is not a comprehensive review of vis or even just its
comparison with vim. I would like to just describe my small
moment of epiphany when working on some document with vis.
There …
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Additional properties in .editorconfig
For some inexplicable reasons vim-editorconfig stopped working
with my latest build of neovim. I am not sure why and I haven’t
have enough time to debug it properly. As a workaround I have
temporarily (?) switched to editorconfig-vim. The former
plugin is all written in VimL, so it was not …
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Convert RHEL-7 to CentOS
I have tried to suggest update of Migration Guide for
RHEL7→CentOS7 migration, but apparently after CentOS was bought
by Red Hat, there is not enough desire to document such
migration, ehm ehm. So, just recording this for posteriority:
URLBASE=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages
cd …
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Proof for Disqus
This is to prove for Disqus case ID: 524317 that I control this
website.
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Re: High-level Problems with Git and How to Fix Them
(originally written as a comment on the blogpost by Gregory
Szorc)
Some comments:
- I like your ideas about the improved documentation and better
sounding options (yes, git commit --cached is stupid). Did
you file them as RFE to git@vger.kernel.org? I don’t think
they are that controversial …
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Design notes on plan9-for-vimspace
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to document any possible
ideas, which could be salvaged from the Acme text
editor of Plan9 fame, and reuse in vim.
When I have seen for the first time Cox (2012)
presenting Acme, modular text editor from Plan9, I was
intriguied by its …
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vim v. IDE for Python programming
(somebody asked me in email about my opinions on vim v. IDE for
Python programming, I think it could be worthy of being available
to others as well)
Obviously you are interested in Python and Vim. Therefore I'd
like to ask you whether you use a Python IDE. If so …
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EconTalk, Future of Cars and Telecommuting
(This has been comment on the episode of EconTalk)
It seems to me that however this interview was awesome (and it
was) it is still in the danger of being the same kind as the
prediction about colourful faxes.
I think we are standing on the edge of the end …
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Harry Potter and The Jabber Spam
After many many years of happy using XMPP we
were finally awarded with the respect of spammers and suddenly
some of us (especially those who have their JID in their email signature) are getting a lot of spim.
Fortunately, the world of Jabber is not so defenceless, thanks to
XEP-0016 …
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OpenWeatherMapProvider for CyanogenMod 13
I don’t understand. CyanogenMod 13 introduced new Weather
widget and lock screen support. Great! Unfortunately, the widget
requires specific providers for weather services and CM does not
provide any in the default installation. There exists Weather
Underground provider, which works, but only other provider
I found (Yahoo! Weather provider …
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StartSSL customers, it is time to leave. Now!
While listening to the Security Now podcast, I have listened
first with amusement then with horror to Steve reading email
from Mozilla about the security problems with WoSign CA.
Their list of woes is long, read the linked email for details,
but one thing turned up during the email which …
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Parsing milestoned XML in Python
I am trying to write a tool in Python (using Python 3.4 to be able to
use the latest Python standard library on Windows without using any
external libraries on Windows) for some manipulation with the source
code for the Bible texts.
Let me first explain what is the …
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vim-sticky-notes — vim support for paste.fedoraproject.org
I have started to work on updating pastebin.vim so that it works with
fpaste The result is available on my GitLab project vim-sticky-notes
Any feedback, issue reports, and (of course) merge requests are very
welcome.
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On GitLab growing an OStatus extension
Finally, this issue ticket gave me the opportunity to write
what I think about OStatus. So, I did.
- https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architecture-astronauts-scare-you/
-- I am sorry, if you like OStatus, but it is the most insane
open source example of this disease. After the astro design,
we …
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Be like Them
(Originally published as a comment on pump.io)
The problem is when we want to be like them. "Give me the
free-as-beer Windows" attitude towards Linux (intentionally not
using GNU/Linux, but that's another discussion) is repeated here
with "Give me the Facebook/Twitter which doesn't bother me with
spam …
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On owning blogosphere
(originally comment on blogpost by Dave Winner)
I was thinking about this a lot especially from the point of view of
owning my own data. The first version of how to do it was “the canonical
version is on my harddrive in some reasonable format, WordPress is just
for presentation …
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Firefox OS post-mortem
So, it happened. My Flame stopped working, it just doesn’t
react to anything (power off switch, power cable), and of course
being a weird unknown China-only thing, no local repair shop
would touch it. I probably could ask somebody at Mozilla for
another one, but I already knew I …
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gedit snippet generating RPM spec %changelog line
I have done a little bit of work to make gedit fully working in
RHEL-7 (appropriate packages with almost all my fixes will be
most likely available in the next minor release of RHEL-7).
Generally my feeling is that gedit is a way less powerful (and
writing Python plugins more …
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EconTalk on the climate change and new religions
I just have to mention a fascinating interview on EconTalk about the climate change. More than the particular climate science (about which I know nothing and care less and less), I found it fascinating confirmation of the dictum attributed to C. S. Lewis (but now I cannot find a proper …
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Third Wave and Telecommuting
I have been reading Tim Bray’s blogpost on how he started to work in
Amazon, and I got ignited by the comment by len and particularly by
this (he starts quoting Tim):
“First, I am totally sick of working remotely. I want to go and
work in rooms …
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Another Git based issue tracker
Just as a follow-up to my blogpost about the distributed issue
tracking, I have just found out there is another one (this time not only
dead, but also not even claimed to be finished) system, gaskit.
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Dave Winder, suicide, and twenty years
Just a reaction to Dave Winer’s 20 years anniversary. Thank you very
much, Dave, for all you did for me.
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On bibshare
(this is originally a comment on the post about “scientific Markdown”)
In my previous life I was using heavily TeX and BibTeX for writing
a scholarly articles when working on my PhD in sociology. When doing
a large BibTeX database of bibliopgraphy there is a certain moment when
one needs …
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Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire
Let me quote here one comment in the current discussion about Brendan
Eich and his contribution for Prop 8:
I’ve decided I will let my web browser provider think whatever they
want, so long as they don’t support fascist segregation of ideas
—ertdfg
I have struggled since the …
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