links, etc cleaning out some reading backlog. stuff worth pointing at more broadly. Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 - media.ccc.de open WiFi implmentation and some interesting learnings. The Walmart Effect - The Atlantic well, at least there’s the math now. 77 Facts That Blew Our Minds in 2024 one of the best lists i’ve seen in a bit, there are some bangers in here. What All of the Markings on SD microSD and microSDXC Cards Mean...

TIL: git supports conditional config for a situation that requires multiple github accounts. you need to be able to toggle a number of config elements to make life happy. git has support for conditional inclusion in the configuration files. if you structure your config and directory structures appropriately you can use the gitdir status to selectively include git configuration elements into the mix, allowing you to toggle between one profile and another....

notes bookshop link recommended: highly this has been sitting on the end table since this summer. i sat down to “grind” through it after i’d hit the target of 30 books this year. the book is physically beautiful. it’s one of those things that you just want to hold in your hand and work through. i’m surprised by how much i simply enjoy the feeling of this book in hand. books rarely feel like this....

recommended: not at all this was not good. it could have been about 80% shorter and still made all of its non-points. not recommended. Annotations: 0,821 SHA-256 b55c5d733a45a1567b4087fea8ed2c9e @steve ulrich [email protected]: 679,28 …

you can bend macos to your will raycast. (worth the pro subscription for cross device sync and the ability to replace a crapton of individual little apps.) has pretty solid window management functionality built into it these days and it does almost everything that i need it to do in terms of layout and snap-to functionality. there was one thing i kept rectangle pro around for namely the ability to move a window around without having to use the title bar....