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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.

#emacs I was experiencing freezes of sometimes up to 30 seconds about 3/4 of the the time when I used my muscle memory to hit "undo", which I do as part of my regular "kill-line undo" combo. Something must have changed recently because I started to have show-stopping freezes of my emacs thread when I tried a routine "undo." I finally managed to squeeze a `toggle-debug-on-quit` and, with a bit of patience, got a C-g in during the freeze. The culprit in the resulting stack trace was my global undo-tree mode, which in combination with my other settings must have started failing. I turned it off by removing the line in my init.el and also running `global-undo-tree-mode` to toggle the mode and… far, no more funny freezes on undo. There are occasions when the undo tree is great and useful, but not at the cost of sometimes completely being a show stopper.

The fact that #emacs out-of-the-box includes "undo-in-region" is not only super cool, but also extremely useful. I just copied a bunch of stuff, changed it into org headings, updated the title, then realized that the stuff had multiple lines, so I undid just the heading part and removed the linebreaks before going back to headings -- without undoing the title change.

Will "Live Tweeting" a big event cause issues on a #mastodon instance? I know that cross-posting back in the day between Twitter and Mastodon seemed not good

Today I am reminded that the difference between lazy "a la" and correct "à la" is called a "grave accent," not the pinyin 4th tone. We are doing french-english, not chinese-latin characters! #unicode In #emacs that's "LATIN SMALL LETTER A GRAVE"

Upgraded to check; mute system on-off. Somehow my VLC had been set to mute (but nothing else in the system). Weird.

til the most used web engine is not Webkit or Gecko -- it's Blink. Funny that I have been hearing about the others for years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_browser_engines

#Gitlab can be self-hosted. This gets around things like user limits, which are a current blocker. But should we? Pro, cons, alternatives? Dear Internet, please advise

I'm looking for recent books or up-to-date text on #FunctionalProgramming with PHP. #PHP is changing rapidly and all the books I see are nearly a decade old. Any good recommendations? #FP

I had a bash file that was suddenly failing. After TOO LONG debugging, I found that one of the included functions had been broken so it ended with `fi}` instead of `fi\n}` so a linebreak had been removed. As a result the cron job that depended on that script was failing. #BeautifulBash

ah, that's the stuff. Because Gnu `date` can create Julian dates but then cannot read them. #babashka #EayNumber #JulianDates #Clojure

#Mastodon now has "edit post"? Since when?

I can, for the moment, rest in peace (at least, on the issue of getting my portable docked triple-monitor setup stable with #exwm). https://orys.us/ww

Todo: write a #Clojure #Babashka script to convert from a given JDN to verbose date. So `babashka-date 2024030` => `Tue 2024.01.30`. Apparently GNU bash `date` can OUTPUT formats that it cannot intake.

#epub. A good thing: officially standardized by the W3C https://github.com/w3c/epubcheck . However, some auto-generated epub seems to be rubbish; 3 out of 4 of my epub readers failed to parse the epub, even after editing missing fields per https://www.edrlab.org/open-standards/anatomy-of-an-epub-3-file/ . I'm not sure how the 4th one managed it, but it's pretty ugly. Guess I'm sticking with #pdf on this one.