Intro

Hello everybody. This is Episode-19 of FalseTrue Digest.

Stories

• C++ standards developer kicked out from ISO WG21 story http://tomazos.com/ub_question_incident.pdf

• Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2022/theory-building/

• Keyboard is a computer again https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-500-review

• Hetzner shutting down Kiwix (the offline wikipedia) https://mastodon.social/@kiwix/113622081750449356

Development

• How to do distributed locking https://martin.kleppmann.com/2016/02/08/how-to-do-distributed-locking.html

• Does Your Code Pass The Turkey Test? http://www.moserware.com/2008/02/does-your-code-pass-turkey-test.html

Emacs

• Discovering functions and variables in Elisp files https://mbork.pl/2024-11-18_Discovering_functions_and_variables_in_Elisp_files

• Emacs library for visualizing time data via interactive blocks https://github.com/ichernyshovvv/timeblock.el

• Woodlike color theme for Emacs https://github.com/daut/miasma-theme.el

• Why I like using bitmap fonts in Emacs by Rodrigo Morales https://rodrigo.morales.pe/2024/10/19/why-i-like-using-bitmap-fonts-in-emacs/

• Restore Emacs editing session https://github.com/jamescherti/easysession.el

• Organizing My Life with org-mode https://jlamothe.net/blog/2024-11-15/

• OrgMode capture templates https://rodrigo.morales.pe/2024/09/21/my-configuration-for-org-roam-capture-templates/

• Org Table From Org Headings using a Babel Block https://emacs.dyerdwelling.family/emacs/20241110085851-emacs–babel-block-generating-org-table-from-org-headings/

Marginal

• Werc - A sane web anti-framework http://werc.cat-v.org/
• Top 100 PC Games https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-rps-100-2024
• Pimalaya is an ambitious project that aims to improve open-source tools related to Personal Information Management (as known as PIM) which includes emails, contacts, calendars, tasks and more. https://pimalaya.org/

That’s it for this episode. Comment and share. EOF