6.3How I Use Shell (2026 Edition)
2026-01-30 • shell scripting zsh shell fish bash
A personal reflection on the author's journey with shell languages, highlighting preferences, usability, and recommendations for different shells based on user needs.
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im tosti is the author of a personal blog focused on less-serious topics, catering to interests such as blogging, writing, and technology, particularly appealing to hackers and developers.
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6.3Squint Testing Lisps
2025-12-08 • programming lisp syntax clojure s-expressions
Lisps, especially Scheme, can pass the squint test by emphasizing parse structure over parentheses, enhancing readability while maintaining core language principles.
6Emacs After a Decade of Vim
2025-07-01 • programming configuration text editors emacs vim
The author shares their journey transitioning from Vim to Emacs after a decade of using Vim. They discuss their initial experiences with various text editors, the challenges faced with Emacs, particularly with Doom Emacs, and thei...
The article discusses how to feel valued in both work and personal life, emphasizing the importance of understanding and meeting others' expectations. It outlines four key steps: avoiding resentment by meeting optimistic expectati...
0Text is Sacred
2025-06-09 • philosophy human psychology psychology
The text discusses the complexity of human interaction and the difficulty of truly knowing someone. It emphasizes the importance of text as a means of understanding others and the challenges of interpreting words and material trac...
The author discusses the issues with rural connectivity, particularly on trains, and how Tailscale exit nodes can help improve the situation by using wireguard with some magic sprinkles.
The author provides a status update for April 2025, announcing their resignation from their current job and their new role as a Cybersecurity Architect. They also discuss their difficulty with resting and their efforts to learn to...
The text explains the concept of floating point numbers and how they are represented in computers. It discusses the difference between integers and floating point numbers, the scientific notation, the storage format, the exponent ...
The author is busy with work and has made little progress on Nabel. They plan to release minimal functionality bigints and bigrats in March. The author also plans to improve OpenStreetMap and is interested in writing their own lan...
0Status Update: January 2025
2025-02-10 •
The author provides a status update on the progress of the PotM: Nabel project, detailing the work completed and remaining for Big Integers, Big Rationals, Series, and Complex Numbers. The author also expresses the intention to wr...
0My Streaming Setup
2025-02-10 •
The post discusses the author's streaming setup, detailing the challenges and solutions they encountered. It also provides context about their history with streaming and the personal circumstances that led to the current setup.
0Status Update: November 2024
2025-02-10 •
The author has decided to write at least one article per month, and if a serious article is not ready, they will provide monthly updates. The author discusses their recent discovery of Vector Symbolic Architectures and their poten...
0What’s New in POSIX 2024 – XCU
2025-02-10 •
The text discusses the history of Unix, the development of POSIX, and the changes in POSIX 2024. It covers the handling of filenames in shell, modern C, limits and cooperation, makefiles, logging, and internationalization.
0My Thoughts On Notes
2025-02-10 •
The author discusses the need for note-taking due to increased responsibilities at work, and the challenges of managing a complex infrastructure and agile practices. They explore different types of note-taking software and express...
0There is No Escape
2025-02-10 •
The text discusses the omnipresence of ads in online content and the impact they have on the quality of information. It explores the idea of integrating ads into content and the negative effects of monetization on the quality of o...
0Raison d'être
2025-02-10 •
The text discusses the reason for the existence of technology, the conflicting desires of users, authors, and technology itself, and the evolution of Python and SQLite. It also delves into the impact of the hype train cycle on tec...
0Status Update: August 2025
2025-08-31 •
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