Fear is just an illusion

Create software projects in an exploratory, live interaction directly with the computer in its own formal language and stop burning money in endless meetings and inventing gazillions of new non-formal languages and processes.

A warning from the field of automotive software where a gazillion of tools, processes, formal and non-formal languages have sprouted along the deficient C one by one, undetected, year after year, until the whole thing has become an disorderly mess. Lesson: avoid Lisp parantheses at your own peril.

...then why is not everybody using it? This question makes no sense though an answer is ofter searched for it. Great for what, for whom, in what circumstances, with what drawbacks and compromises? Life is full of such questions and scenarios. If I were to choose, I would live in the best house, eat the healthiest food, do whatever the heck I want all day long. Reality doesn't work that way.

What has the Event Loop to do with standing in lines to buy groceries? A lot, if one want to minimize the time spent outside in freezing temperatures

Software teams that have not mastered the technical language invent their own observer language together with the adoption of legions of tools and procesess

A generic distinction between the style and motivations behind big, corporation-like software teams and small, independent ones

I've once wondered, are street names dominated by male artists, heroes, scientists and politicians? So I went to openstreetmap, taken each country in turn, parsed and cleaned the relevant tags and made a list of those famous people of the past, pics, wiki links and summaries included. Spoiler alert: everywhere the past is almost always bloody.

How to group all shells, code, web browser and all other Emacs buffers into different tabs and switch easily between them with tab-bar mode.

A peculiar book list for the adventurous and free-spirited on which to build a solid base for their future software adventures.

Ditch the classic keyboard and your back and wrist pain together with it. Try a split, fully-programmable keyboard and discover a new world of possibilities. You'll never go back after.

Some examples of Lisp features which are non-implementable in C, together with an analysis of the different levels of power between languages.

My experience with building my own Emacs, text-based, music player and discovering the build one to throw one away mantra.

Over the years I've learned to use my palm to press the controls keys after some advice I've found online. This is an article encouraging that method to potential users. I've since replaced it with a split keyboard, but it has served me well all this time.

Romanian translation of the famous Lessons In Electronic Circuits. It includes plenty of material related to electric and electronic circuits and it starts at the very beginning with ample explanations and step by step instructions and real-world examples.