If I could recommend just 1 non-fiction book that I read in 2025 it would be Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman. It left me energized and clear-eyed with a new perspective on my own values. It's the my only re-read of the year and I'll read it again. #booksky

Today I learned Lix has an installer that's based off the determinate systems one now. So now, you can install Lix with this command: ```shell curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf -L https://install.lix.systems/lix | sh -s -- install ``` Nice! Syndicated from my digital garden

I just found `nix-portable`, a way to run Nix as a static executable from any linux system. Cool! Syndicated from my digital garden

Github has a website where one can see all the public keys per user. It's at `https://github.com/<username>.keys`. Sweet! Syndicated from my digital garden

Next week is functional programming time in Tübingen again: www.meetup.com/tu-lambda/ev...

Today I learned how to also show the time in mu4e's email list. This is how you do it: ```elisp (setq mu4e-headers-date-format "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M") (setq mu4e-headers-fields '((:human-date . 18) ; this needs to be there (:flags . 6) (:from . 22) (:subject))) ```

Today I learned about a new tool in the Nix space: Clan Really looking forward to trying this out. Syndicated from my digital garden

Today I finally watched A Language Server for your DSL for Fun and Profit, which was a pretty nice talk. In the talk, he mentions L4—it's a Specification Language for legal systems. Looks interesting! Syndicated from my digital garden

Recently, I came upon The Quiet Rich, specifically the article on Work Boundaries. So I thought I'd try and write this down for me: My Work Boundaries Syndicated from my digital garden

Is this finally a nonbroken publish from Emacs by @beathagenlocher.com?

We're back! Mark your calendars: BOBkonf returns on 13 March 2026 … … and our Call for Contributions is up, with a submission deadline of 17 Nov 2025. Find out more here: bobkonf.de/2026/cfc.html

And now I can publish texts to Bluesky from Emacs! Code here: https://github.com/haglobah/doom/blob/444e2079faac47eb33703b66eec1d1443049be81/packages/bluesky.el#L1

Just came upon this wonderful piece again: The high-return activity of raising others’ aspirations Already raised someone's aspirations today?

Today I found out that Randall's got a blog, too: blog.xkcd.com Maybe I was one of those lucky ten thousand today ^^ (And yes, I know, it's more like 300 000 if you assume it to be world wide)

Lol. Just now I learned that git hooks are actually internal to git. Just take a look at `.git/hooks/` in your repo: git-scm.com/book/ms/v2/C... (makes _so_ much sense, I know, I know)

Today I learned about the Temporal object in JS: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

Today I learned you can control the Kitty terminal remotely: sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/remote... Cool!

It's functional programming meetup time again: tu-lambda.github.io RSVP here: www.meetup.com/tu-lambda/ev... See you there! :)

Just got reminded of this: www.ubi.org/46/ubi-video... Pure Gold.

Announcing AlphaEvolve, our new LLM coding agent that has - made new scientific discoveries - discovered algorithms that are now deployed at Google (in Gemini, Transformers, TPU hardware design & data centers) Blog: deepmind.google/discover/blo... White paper: storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-med...

"Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax."

Nice! ladybird.org

TIL about git's diff.algorithm = histogram adamj.eu/tech/2024/01...

“If you’re thinking without writing you only think you’re thinking” — Leslie Lamport

www.youtube.com/watch?v=djKB... Just great.

TIL about GNU `parallel`: just.systems/man/en/runni... And I don't think I've ever seen a man page this good. It seems to follow diataxis.fr. Wow.

Ooh, interesting: github.com/nix-communit...

A small nudge from Elements of Clojure: Structural engineering is a practice that operates in a relatively fixed environment. The environment we write software in, however, changes all the time. So why do we always compare ourselves to people building bridges?

Currently reading elementsofclojure.com. It clearly distinguishes between abstraction and indirection, with indirection specified as: - references, and - conditionals only. Let's see what it has to say about abstraction.

Just finished working through the [React tutorial](jazz.tools/docs/react/g...) at @jazz.tools and it _is_ pretty impressive how easy it is.

From "let's be backward compatible" with love: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

TIL that amending a commit in magit is as easy as pressing `c a` (that brings you to the `git commit --amend` menu). (Yep, I _do_ feel a bit embarassed for not realizing this earlier.)

TIL someone did a study on rigged monopoly once: m.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ8K...

Just realizing again how prone I am to overthinking, -optimizing, -engineering stuff. Alone in the last two weeks, I spent more than 2 hours just thinking about how to optimally integrate bsky posts in my workflow (and not writing any) instead of _just typing them out by hand_.

Lese gerade Korrumpiert von Marco Bülow. Auf 'ne Art und Weise spürt man das ja schon ein bisschen diffus/weiß, dass die letzten 30 Jahre Politik *gegen* und nicht *für* die 99% gemacht wurde – aber es so bestätigt zu bekommen, ist doch nochmal besonders frustrierend.

Just came across nownownow.com/about via sandymaguire.me/now/, and it's made by Derek Sivers. Of course.

Just finished reading (and roaming through the links of) adamwiggins.com/making-compu.... What a great article series! I feel seen.

Enjoyed Ian McKellen on how he came to play Gandalf: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSIO... One of the comments on the video is very striking, too: "McKellen has that quality of all great actors: He is humble, but carries great power."

Irre. Am Bodensee sollten 2 Fähren auf Elektro-Betrieb umgestellt werden. Da aber die Binnenschifffahrt in Deutschland von der Mineralöl- und CO2-Steuer befreit wäre (Strom aber mit Steuern und Abgaben belastet wird) wäre der Betrieb im Jahr 520.000€ teurer. Tja.

Im übrigen bin ich der Meinung, dass die AfD verboten und dass das Gutachten des Verfassungsschutzes zur AfD veröffentlicht gehört.

- hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.18.... (good) - dnlytras.com/blog/elixir-... (even simpler)

Read more about the differences in antibiotic use for livestock across the world: ourworldindata.org/antibiotics-...

open.spotify.com/episode/1X2Z... He is just great.

And we're off! #BOBkonf2025 starts with Annette Bieniusa's keynote "Local-first Software".

Greetings from Haskell.

What a great talk: Equity: The Thief of Human Potential - Thomas Sowell - YouTube

Spent a few hours yesterday figuring out that Clojures seqs can throw exceptions on realization. In hindsight, that totally makes sense. They're lazy.

Watching Interstella 5555 right now – and realize (again) how much I like music videos with a good story ^^

Book recommendation: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.

Pure gold: Benedict Cumberbatch reads a hilarious letter of apology to a hotel - YouTube