Minimum Age ratings on games and why they’re terrible I came across this Reddit comment today and it explains so much:
I used to work in the toy industry - there is A LOT hidden behind age ranges on a box. Those are less about what age the game is for (except…

Imagine you want to filter out the nil elements in an array. There are many ways to do this in Ruby: # common, but suboptimal array.reject(&:nil?) array.delete_if(&:nil?) array.select { |e| !e.nil? } # optimal array.compact But there’s a slightly weirder…

Video demonstration on how to configure fonts in Emacs using a generic method as well as my ‘fontaine’ package.

Sorry for the long break. Once December started, I spent the first few weeks spending my coding time on Advent of Code, then just got sidetracked but now it's time to get going again.
This is the last elisp topic I specifically wanted to cover so this and…

Out of the box, sorting a Dired buffer is rather underwhelming. In this post I describe how to improve that. But before we get into details, let’s see what the end-result looks like. For the...

Once again, I have collected far too many links over far too long a period of time. Anyhow, here is a collection of blog posts and links from around the web that I found to be good reading over the past couple of months. Is it too late in January to say Happy…

Over on Exercism, they have something called The #48in24 Challenge. I'm not exactly sure what it's about, but it started this week with the leap year problem.
This is a fun little problem. A leap year in the Gregorian calendar is a year that is divisible…

Updated to Emacs 29.2, just now. Took me and my four core workhorse about fifteen minutes tops, from start to finish.
Emacs 29.0 was the first version I compiled from source, because I wanted the latest release as soon as it was out and I no longer had the…

Hey, Emacs 29.2 was released yesterday! Let's install it!
First, make sure we have all the dependencies.
❯ sudo apt build-dep emacs Emacs 28+ includes native compilation. We definitely want that, so make sure we have libgccjit.
❯ gcc --version gcc (Debian…

I must admit to stealing … quite a lot … from a bot at that!
Zoetrope’s, “random color contrasts” gets colours from Adam Morse and John Otander’s Randoma11ly and posts them a few times a day.
I’ve been writing down the ones I love and find interesting, in…

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