bringing order to chaos - maybe

Frustratingly, I can’t locate it now but I recently saw a post on Mastodon from someone who had great difficulty creating a new file in his ‘Documents’ folder. This struck me as very amusing but I think the point he was trying to express was that his ‘Documents’ directory is a disorganised, unstructured, cluttered mess of files so he is incredibly reluctant and can barely bring himself to compound the issue further by typing ‘vi linux-notes.txt’ while in the ‘Documents’ directory. ...

May 13, 2020

a thing of rare beauty

Monochrome screenshot from the wget mailing list featuring Emacs and Supercite circa 1997.

October 11, 2006