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For Clojure as a 1st language it depends upon where you want to go. But here are great trail-heads:

- the best talks, most of which don't actually involve code: https://techyaks.com/clojure-all-tytop.html

- @yogthos list of beginner resources: https://gist.github.com/yogthos/be323be0361c589570a6da4ccc85f58f

- But most of all, the community: clojurians.slack.com, clojureverse.org, clojurians.zulipchat.com. That last one includes an awesome aggregator of all of them.

and... it just hit 100%. 🤷

My old usbc charger stopped charging to 100%, only going to 95%. Then I got a new one, a GAN, and my completely depleted laptop recharged to 100% -- for a week or two. Now it is back to stopping at 95%. Charging it while it's off doesn't seem to help it get above 95%. What's going on, and why did it charge to 100% for a while? #charging #thinkpad #TwoBatteries

I use a massive org file to tangle my straigt.el emacs configuration. I just spent hours cleaning up a rampant `downcase-dwim`which was most certainly NOT `dwim`. I'm not sure when it happened, but somehow it got by my git commit screening and broke EVERYTHING. #emacs #LetterCasing

In the past I've had winning help from #Mastodon. This time it came from #Reddit. And now my #keyboard is back in shape, thanks to the #BootMagic I didn't know I had! https://orys.us/wH

Help please: GU_OFF ?

I'm using an unmodified Planck dropshipped keyboard. It is mostly as represented here https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/refs/heads/master/keyboards/planck/keymaps/default/keymap.c with the exception that the lowest-left key is 'shift' and not 'brite', although it would be nice if it were related to my keyboard backlight. See also https://config.qmk.fm/#/planck/rev7/LAYOUT_ortho_4x12, which seems to match except that both my spacebar buttons are, for now, really just space.

My toddler mashed some buttons for ten minutes before we realized where he was, and ever since then my GUI key is disabled. I have verified that it is, evidently, the GU_OFF command that was run, as it is strictly the GUI key that is disabled and even when I swap GUI and ALT (Meta) it remains the GUI key (even after it changes position) that simply does nothing. I have never installed my own firmware and mostly have just utilized the Dvorak layer. I really need my GUI key back. I've verified that it is the keyboard and not the system by using the keyboard on another, my Windows gaming box, and still there is no GUI key (there used to be, as it brought up the Windows start menu, which I used sometimes).

Any idea what could have disabled my GUI (Windows, Super) key on my Planck, and how I can get it back short of flashing the keyboard (I can't get to Flashing, but that's another post)?

#OLKB #OMK #Planck #keyboard

Illustrating that os is struggling VS capitalism

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/15/open-source-companies-that-go-proprietary-a-timeline/

programming today: I thought I'd start with something little. Just get the latest General Conference talks in plain-text, as I've done for years.

Error: Syntax.
Error: my language version is too much older than some dependencies. Upgrade needed.
Error: my coding evironment is 30-version too old. Upgrade needed.
Error: my Java was too old, so upgraded.
Error: my system was missing a crucial tool (Pandoc. last time using this tool was on a different computer). Installed it, which also updated 22 system packages, including my printer stuff.
Status: my original web scraper is working beatifully. Fingers crossed that nothing else broke from the accidental updates...

#Clojure #java #pandoc #programming

I want a usbc hub with two HDMI connections to be seen as two different displays, not as one oversize display. I have one old hub that manages this,but have had $ expense and frustration finding anything else with the same behavior. Insights please?

I spent 30 hours and a sick day debugging an issue I thought was my xorg setup when, in fact, it was a cruel #guix command combined with a bad version of the #LinuxKernel

#CSS media queries are worth the time and effort to remove. Modern responsiveness doesn't require specific pixel values. Why did no one's code sense start tingling a warning that Media Queries were never a good idea? #ResponsiveDesign #DRY

Why does my #emacs crash every couple hours of work? I can be doing whatever, even writing non-code. I can be in Gnome or in EXWM. Today it's occurred after about 2 hours of work, and then again 2.5 hours later. It doesn't seem to matter my window-load or my CPU load; I just hear my fans start whirring, my CPU usage goes way up, and I either freeze or even my cursor becomes sluggish. This didn't happen very often a month ago, back on emacs 28.2. What could be causing it now? Maybe #GarbageCollection?

One of the issues with the #REPL (and #emacs which is just a great big text-oriented repl) is that it is additive in nature; it usually takes major effort or a restart to REMOVE things once they've been added (thinking on plugins which modify app state). #Clojure

#guix gc is already a wonder for freeink up space. `guix gc --delete-generations` just freed over 50GB. Now will my exwm stop loading emacs 28.2 when at a prompt I get 29?

My #guix gc freed about 14gb. How about that? #GarbageCollection

Today I learned about #gnuOctave, apparently as an OS alternative to #MatLab. Full disclosure: I've never actually used matlab. Does anyone have experience with Octave? Was it good?

https://wiki.octave.org/Differences_between_Octave_and_Matlab

ah, the pains of being a power user. "Is it stable? How often do you restart?"

Well, it's not usually the software's fault. At least, not under normal usage.

Firefox just worked up my browser and froze my machine. I switched to a terminal and ran `pkill firefox`. Now I am keeping a close eye on my `about:processes` tab.