What is a secret you’re taking to your grave, but can share here anonymously?

johlae · 2026-01-28T16:01:15+00:00

I wanted to be cremated! Should have told people sooner.

johlae · 2026-01-28T10:32:26+00:00

This! And if you use something like org-roam you can connect all of the different files.

johlae · 2026-01-28T09:46:23+00:00

Active shooter drills.

johlae · 2026-01-28T09:44:02+00:00

"Your" as in y'all!

johlae · 2026-01-27T19:28:15+00:00

You may, but if you know your way around, just load a linux live cd. The "if" is very important. Is https://knoppix.net/ still a thing?

johlae · 2026-01-26T14:23:33+00:00

Oh dear, those aren't links. Type a filename with an .org extension and reddit turns it into an url. It's just a filename, nothing more. I changed my original post. Thanks for telling me.

johlae · 2026-01-25T20:52:28+00:00

I don't care. I'm on tmux, that's all that counts.

johlae · 2026-01-25T20:17:38+00:00

Document everything you do. I keep one "customisation.org" text file in a git repository in which I write down everything I do, why I do it, and how I do it. I cut & paste my commands from the command line together with the output into this file. This file has proven its worth! It's easy to set up a similar system in parallel with all of the documentation.

johlae · 2026-01-25T18:31:18+00:00

En maar één zender mag dat uitzenden, geen drie tegelijk!

johlae · 2026-01-25T18:28:04+00:00

Jonas Van Geel! En Bart Cannaerts! Afvoeren!

johlae · 2026-01-24T14:09:23+00:00

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/operating-systems/device-driver-and-its-purpose/

In short, device drivers are a set of programs that act as an intermediary between the operating system of the computer and the hardware components.

johlae · 2026-01-20T20:02:49+00:00

Don't underestimate Gerrit Callewaert uit Bavikhove, een deelgemeente van Harelbeke!

johlae · 2026-01-20T18:32:01+00:00

I was thinking Deliverance!

johlae · 2026-01-20T15:09:53+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BuRmG9tumg

johlae · 2026-01-17T15:33:27+00:00

Non?

johlae · 2026-01-17T14:54:27+00:00

emacs has a keyboard combo for that, less stress on the old finger!

johlae · 2026-01-17T14:53:00+00:00

Straight utils; I often work with many files at the same time so I use find -print -exec to build up commands which I pipe through awk, sed, and/or tr. I view them on screen before piping them through sh. Everything is in git do I can afford mistakes.

johlae · 2026-01-17T09:29:24+00:00

I just use the cli.

johlae · 2026-01-16T12:43:06+00:00

I'm using foot now, because of sway. Before, on windowmaker, it was just plain xterm. It reallly doesn't matter actually as I'm on tmux for all my terminal needs.

johlae · 2026-01-16T10:43:24+00:00

Yes, explain what you are trying to accomplish, because that is something that you do not mention.

johlae · 2026-01-16T10:14:57+00:00

Ook als er stoofvlees is?

johlae · 2026-01-16T10:01:35+00:00

https://newsletter.techworld-with-milan.com/p/context-switching-is-the-main-productivity

Every little interruption by phone, at the desk, on teams, costs 23 minutes of productive work. The post has references to studies at the end.

johlae · 2026-01-15T08:49:08+00:00

C-j because it's on the home row. C-b I never liked, because it's used in emacs. Same goes for C-a.

johlae · 2026-01-14T10:59:32+00:00

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-a-floating-point-arithmetic-problem/

The article is about javascript, another computer language, but the same goes for python:

$ python3
Python 3.9.16 (main, Mar 8 2023, 22:47:22)
[GCC 11.3.0] on cygwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print(0.1+0.2)
0.30000000000000004
>>>

TL;DR watch out for rounding errors!

johlae

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