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Drew Jose
I write about linux, emacs, and maybe would love to write more about economics and politics.
August 2026
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Okay, this is actually an aeropress limeade. This is sort of a modified version of an aeropress recipe from Coffee with April Ingredients 13 grams coffee, medium roast 130 ml water Half a lime (15 grams) Lots of ice (at least 40 grams) Sugar/sweetener to taste The lime variety I use is Key Lime, but any will do I...
Development tools today are very complicated to install and deal with, the foremost of which is the docker CLI. You install it via shell script on most systems and if you want docker compose, you need to install it separately. In some systems, it gets added as a subcommand, so that the docker binary can handle it,...
I hate flying. It's incredibly boring, the security circus is pointless and brings out the worst in co-passengers, more time is spent waiting for things to happen than actually being up in the air, and it's not great for the environment (though even if we were to stop taking flights, apparently just as many planes...
Melpa is one of the most popular and probably the most accessible emacs package repository to publish to. All you need to do is add a ‘recipe’ to the melpa git repository by following the instructions. They also have a few requirements that you need to adhere to: Your functions and variables should have adequate...
I like older games a lot, I grew up playing the gameboy pokémons and the gameboy advance fire emblems on my cracked PSP. I did play a couple of actual PSP games on it as well. The hardware Hopefully a Retroid 4 pro, which is an android device with decent specs which should allow up to PS2 emulation. I placed an...
Discussion at lobste.rs Please participate in the jam! If you’re on this webpage, there’s a good chance you’re already into lisp, or that the new notation will not scare you. The link to the jam: https://itch.io/jam/spring-lisp-game-jam-2024. Read ahead if you’re interested in participating, I have some game engine...
Bash is weird Whenever you make an input in bash, it gets split into "words" based on whitespace. Usually, this is what you want, and it lets you write commands like for x in ~/Documents ~/Downloads ~/Photos do du -h $x done Here, all of the filenames given are interpreted separately. If in case you want to pass the...
The web version of the crafting interpreters book is available to read for free. It uses Java, a popular Object-Oriented language to explain the implementation of an interpreter for a simple language. It does not actually do so in a language-agnostic way (which would obviously be pretty hard to do), thus using an...
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