~b @torresjrjr@qoto.org

A command's help flag should not print more than a screenfull (ideally max 5 lines). I should not have to guess whether I need to use a pager to catch whatever comes out. Add a verbose help flag or something.

> The Web was Never Decentralized

Interesting history and deconstruction of the Web for a '99er.

https://medium.com/design-warp/the-web-was-never-decentralized-bb066138c88

#find

I tried emacs again.

My pinky: "nope, please stop, no".

Maybe when my ZSA Moonlander comes in. Maybe.

Telegram is becoming the Emacs of Android/iOS, which is inevitable given the nature of those platforms. Theoretically non-unix-y bloatware, practically a gem of software. It's hard to hate on Telegram when they do so well.

Prompted by their latest release. https://telegram.org/blog/pinned-messages-locations-playlists

Javascript must die~~~!
https://brettgilio.com/posts/2020-10-11-javascript-other.html

I have a dream

that blogs and websites will adopt the CSS @media query `prefers-color-scheme`

so I don't have to load a million lines of a bloated JavaSh** plugin to force a dark mode, and spare my eyes and RAM.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme

#vim

Funny Easter egg found in http://ix.io/robots.txt

I implemented a CSS minifier in my ssg using . I'd use POSIX sed but I don't know how to turn of greediness when removing comments, or remove newlines.

https://github.com/torresjrjr/pdssg/commit/f0c1d44d1204446c6abdb80b0a5e8b0575490155#diff-655e94a89feea284c255c82d9f48e1a904cb3f5e581de381d58d189d68f77f56R87

Also lol my style.css reduced by ~40%.

Nuked my GPG keys.
Opened VSCode by accident.
Microsoft Teams.
Barely car crashed.
[REDACTED].
[REDACTED].
[REDACTED].

This week can eat my arse.

https://vim.org needs an update. It's so ad hoc, non-responsive and boomer. Emacs' page exhibits basic design principles. We should do better, @bram@moolenaar.net

https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/emacs/emacs.html

Just learnt about scheme-relative URLs. My site's source is much more aesthetic now mwahaha.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a#Linking_to_relative_URLs

I know I'm not the only autist who browses other's raw cluttered/pristine HTML. Fess up.

The #Encyclosphere, Wikipedia co-founder @lsanger's new "decentralised wiki" project.

https://larrysanger.org/2019/10/introducing-the-encyclosphere/

https://encyclosphere.org/

Commit message fatigue...

@lain Pleroma rekt by Wikipedia

> "Medium and blogs are not reliable sources."

I tried.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Pleroma_(software)

St. Jerome in His Study
Painting by Antonello da Messina