Please consider me on a coding/work hiatus at least till the end of September, due to health reasons. 🫠

I was heavily offlined the last few weeks, so I’ll have Opinions™ more end-of-August at best! But my Vim clumsiness finally pays back, the basic bindings are the most I ever learnt. 😇

... and this is why I don't like to talk to journalists. I made an exception for The Economist: sent over 7 pages of details on the comp landscape and told them they can use it, plus quote from @pragmaticengineer.com as long as they link it.

They used my chart, redrew it as their own, did not link.

Ubuntu 25.10 will replace sudo with sudo-rs: github.com/trifectatech...

Right, apologies. 🤦‍♂️

You can mutate the array because you have access to the passed-by-value pointer to it (`a`), but you can’t repoint it (this is why `a += [3]` doesn’t change the caller’s variable).

This is also why you can’t mutate immediates.

This is because `a += [3]` is syntactic sugar for `a = a + [3]` – you are not modifying `a`, you create a new local `a` from the passed-in `a`.

`a.push(3)` is a call on the original `a` that modifies it.

(Ruby is pass-by-reference except some objects are immediates, like small integers… 😱)

Can they do Polishness next? My paternal-paternal great-grandpa was Czech, my maternal-paternal one was Silesian, the majority of them identified as Poles probably, keine Ahnung – Poland didn’t exist for 123 years (that’s five generations?).

And then what does it mean to be Catalonian.

(There’s also the infuriating ‘employees have to be in the office three times a week because we can’t trust them to not be doing another job in parallel’.)

…or, just now – I had my daily blood pressure records in Obsidian oldest-first, but the list grew long and I’d rather add to the top of it:

tac blood_pressure.md | sponge blood_pressure.md

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