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Reflections

Well I signed up for @Panic ‘s Nova mailing list so it will either:

  1. Never be released.
  2. Be released, I’ll buy it, no updates for 3 years.
  3. Be released, I won’t buy it, no updates for 3 years.

I have a history with text editors.

A concert venue but the seats are rollercoaster seats that lock and there are no concessions.

OH: “people never delete email — it’s like a blockchain, except self-inflicted.”

Since I upgraded to macOS 10.14.5 Mail.app opens the main window randomly 2 – 5 times an hour. What?

Super cool that @puppetize just deleted all of the Puppet 4 apt repos over night.

The argument for using a code auto formatter:

All code looks the same, updates to the formatter are applied universally.

The argument against using a code auto formatter:

No! NO! NOOOOOO. I am special. I’m different. I am very smart. MY CODE HAS TO LOOK DIFFERENT THAN THAT.

Wait…but why? Postfix edition.

While reading some postfix documentation I came across this passage: New queue files are created with names such as 3Pt2mN2VXxznjll. These are encoded in a 52-character alphabet that contains digits (0-9), upper-case letters (B-Z) and lower-case letters (b-z). For safety reasons the vowels (AEIOUaeiou) are excluded from the alphabet. The name format is: 6 or…

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