Yet another critique on PIM and the art of collecting links. I'll keep a link to it here and make an archive.

The new official hand-drawn font powering Excalidraw. Download Excalifont under MIT license and learn more about its specifics.

My thoughts and findings

Personal goals are generally expected to happen later.
The reason it’s hard to get going on personal goals is that you’re already using all of your time. No matter who you are, you’re already using all 24 hours, every day, for something. Because this will always be true, goals that happen at all must happen now, while you still don’t yet have time.
Basically, you learn to work in small, uniform parcels of time. They’re short, timer-bound, and unwaveringly focused on a particular outcome. Most importantly, they can fit into real life, as it already is.

Collection of encrypted correspondence between the compiler and various correspondents, in approximately 150 alphabets, accompanied by transcriptions of the letters in Arabic. The compiler cites Shihāb al-Dīn al-Jindī al-ʻAlāʼī, Burhān al-Dīn al-Qudsī, and Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar al-Ḥusaynī as authorities for some of the alphabets. The manuscript is incomplete, lacking its beginning and end. Occasional marginal notes. Some worm damage in margins.

Via https://t.me/linguopunk/549

Арабская книга 14 века с собственным тайным алфавитом для тайных записей

Orwell said:

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
Never use a long word where a short one will do.
If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
Never use the passive where you can use the active.
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

Hi, I'm Redowan Delowar—a wandering sciolist with a flair for ones and zeros. I learn, write, and tweet about Python, Go, SQL, and the broader landscape of software in general.

Luxury beliefs have, to a large extent, replaced luxury goods.

Luxury beliefs are ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class, while often inflicting costs on the lower classes.

A 2021 article

Lightweight Golang ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, and SQLite

Прикольный подход, позволяющий для пикселяртовых анимаций иметь отдельно анимированный скелет и текстуру.

Fetches and converts data between social networks, HTML and JSON with microformats2, ActivityStreams 1 and 2 (including ActivityPub), Atom, RSS, JSON Feed, and more.

A mushroom shop

Here's a language that gives near-C performance that feels like Python or Ruby with optional type annotations (that you can feed to one of two static analysis tools) that has good support for macros plus decent-ish support for FP, plus a lot more. What's not to like? I'm mostly not going to talk about how great Julia is, though, because you can find plenty of blog posts that do that all over the internet.

Cool system, though I do not understand it fully. I especially like the Gestku the author posts on the Fediverse.