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Philip Kaludercic
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CS student, with an interest in computation, logic, types and categories. I hack on {E,}Lisp, C, Shell, and other less popular technologies […]

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pkal.commenting.onthe.incoherenceofthe.net.ap.brid.gy
[Low-quality #emacs meme]

Late reaction, but also don't take this seriously.
Gru meme template, consisting of three steps: 1. Magit drops dependency on dash 2. No more unwanted dependencies 3. New dependency on llama
June 8, 2025 at 7:33 AM
pkal.commenting.onthe.incoherenceofthe.net.ap.brid.gy
And no, I didn't notice that the output is broken, here is is after un-escaping the backslashes. All of this is screaming that I shouldn't be up this late -.-
April 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
pkal.commenting.onthe.incoherenceofthe.net.ap.brid.gy
Neat and related: When writing HTML with some math, I don't really want to write MathML by hand (let alone depend on MathJax or something like that). LaTeXML turns out to be helpful again, specifically via the latexmlmath (which btw. can […]

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April 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
pkal.commenting.onthe.incoherenceofthe.net.ap.brid.gy
I coincidentally downloaded the "Atkinson Hyperlegible" fonts today, just when they released two new variations: https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/. It turns out that the monospace font look nice in Emacs, and in combination of […]

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A dark-mode screenshot of Emacs, with an artificial screenshot of my window.
February 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
pkal.commenting.onthe.incoherenceofthe.net.ap.brid.gy
My father ordered two batteries for a remote. Turns out someone just (visibly) cut two batteries off some larger package, and re-sells these. I asked him why he just ordered two, and he said that was the only number they offered.
The right side of a battery packaging, holding two batteries, that has obviously been cut off the rest of the packaging using scissors.
February 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
pkal.commenting.onthe.incoherenceofthe.net.ap.brid.gy
It is funny to me how both HN comments are individually both nothing unusual for the site, yet so different in their implicit worldview at the same time.
December 24, 2024 at 9:09 PM
pkal.commenting.onthe.incoherenceofthe.net.ap.brid.gy
The recent Go developer survey had an interesting question wrt. Editors. Despite having a low usage rate, among all the options it ranked highest on "Heard but never tried it", with only 13% of the respondents never having hard of it […]

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The results from the Go survey, also avaliable as a SVG https://go.dev/blog/survey2024h2/editor_aware.svg.
December 24, 2024 at 1:37 PM
pkal.commenting.onthe.incoherenceofthe.net.ap.brid.gy
Different poster, same idea.
December 5, 2024 at 11:16 PM
pkal.commenting.onthe.incoherenceofthe.net.ap.brid.gy
I recently had the issue of distinguishing the same files in different projects and accidentally editing the wrong files. Then I had the idea of repurposing an old script of mine (I actually believe one of the first scripts that I ever […]

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An example of face-shift-mode in action. The left frame is `face-shift.el` and the right two are my Emacs checkout, with a different background color.
December 5, 2024 at 10:50 PM
pkal.commenting.onthe.incoherenceofthe.net.ap.brid.gy
Fun activity after a day of work with no energy left to be productive (sorry): I drew up a poster for a made up event in Inkscape and then made a few variations on the theme using GIMP while watching Friends.

#inkscape #gimp #art
December 4, 2024 at 9:54 PM