Notes — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho
Macro-microblogging, as it were. Things too long for (or extracted from threads on) traditional “micro-blog” social media.| v5.chriskrycho.com
Macro-microblogging, as it were. Things too long for (or extracted from threads on) traditional “micro-blog” social media.| v5.chriskrycho.com
It doesn’t take long and you never know when it will pay massive dividends.| v5.chriskrycho.com
Some reflections on 1Password.| v5.chriskrycho.com
Exactly what I have been hoping for since Mozilla announced the Pocket shutdown.| v5.chriskrycho.com
JetBrains has a sensible model for subscriptions: once you pay for a version, it is yours. Would that other vendors would follow suit.| v5.chriskrycho.com
…because not everyone in the audience can see.| v5.chriskrycho.com
Technical strategy, TypeScript, and Rust specialist.| v5.chriskrycho.com
A senior engineering leader, lately focused on frameworks and languages as ratchets: tools which help other developers to build better software.| v5.chriskrycho.com
Reflections prompted by Michael Sacasas’ wrapping up a decade of blogging. Ending projects on the internet is harder—but no less good when done well.| v5.chriskrycho.com
Complexity has to live somewhere; but it does not have to live everywhere.| v5.chriskrycho.com
A really handy approach for splitting apart changes into multiple branches but working on their combination.| v5.chriskrycho.com
When you need to know a bit more about how the system identifies a given user.| v5.chriskrycho.com
Like ls, but it’s about open files instead of files in a directory. Neat!| v5.chriskrycho.com
Two of my favorite command line tools: copy and paste to the macOS clipboard. (Actually to one of… several clipboards?)| v5.chriskrycho.com
It tells you how long your computer has been running. Handy, occasionally!| v5.chriskrycho.com
Another old Unix standby… without too many extra flags.| v5.chriskrycho.com
Disk utility. Not that Mac app you might be thinking of, the older one.| v5.chriskrycho.com
One of the few Unix tools that actually follows the Unix philosophy! Mostly, anyway.| v5.chriskrycho.com
When was the *last* time a user logged in, or the computer got shut down or restarted? `last` is one way to find out!| v5.chriskrycho.com
Digging into just a few of the neat things `less` can do (I learned a bunch today).| v5.chriskrycho.com
open files and directories on macOS!| v5.chriskrycho.com
I have a very long list of unread items in Pocket, which I make slow progress on using my Kobo. That big backlog is good, actually!| v5.chriskrycho.com
A real-world example: Markdown-, HTML-, Unicode-aware word counting.| v5.chriskrycho.com
Writing at The Gospel Coalition on John Andrew Bryant’s book on OCD and the Christian life.| v5.chriskrycho.com
A new work for solo piano. Less John Williams, more Arvo Pärt. Give it a listen!| v5.chriskrycho.com
Jujutsu (`jj`) is a new version control system from a software developer at Google. I have been using it full time for 6 months. Here’s why you should switch, too.| v5.chriskrycho.com
Short-to-medium length entries—relatively off the cuff.| v5.chriskrycho.com
Hopes and structure for my current 3-month sabbatical: writing music, making programming languages, and resting.| v5.chriskrycho.com
Software keeps “eating the world”—so quality matters! We must build, and teach people how to use, ratchets: to permanently raise the bar.| v5.chriskrycho.com
