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Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon in Practice

I bought M1 MacBook Air. It is the fastest computer I have, and I have been a GNOME/GNU/Linux user for long time. It is obvious conclusion that I need practical Linux desktop environment on Apple Silicon.

Fortunately, Linux already works on Apple Silicon/M1. But how practical is it?

Two native ports exist.

Now that Pebble servers are gone, some old components in the SDK need to be patched or replaced so they can fetch what they need from Rebble.

This script downloads and installes everything needed to build projects and also run the emulator.

Was tested on Ubuntu 18.04.2 on WSL.

How To Speed Up Clojure Hello World 100x Using GraalVM

Performance

Version	Command	Time (seconds)
Java	`time java -jar target/fastclj-1.0-standalone.jar`	1.354
GraalVM	`time ./fastclj-1.0-standalone`	0.014

Details

Dependency Injection in Functional Programming

There exist several DI frameworks / libraries in the Scala ecosystem. But the more functional code you write the more you'll realize there's no need to use any of them.

A few of the most claimed benefits are the following:

Dependency Injection.
Life cycle management.
Dependency graph rewriting.

Eric Elliott's "Composing Software" Series

A collection of links to the excellent "Composing Software" series of medium stories by Eric Elliott.

The right way to override any highlighting if you don't want to edit the colorscheme file directly

Generalities first

Suppose you have weird taste and you absolutely want:

your visual selection to always have a green background and black foreground,
your active statusline to always have a white background and red foreground,
your very own deep blue background.

	" Vim syntax file
	" Language: Todo
	" Maintainer: Huy Tran
	" Latest Revision: 14 June 2020

	if exists("b:current_syntax")
	finish
	endif

	" Custom conceal

	git clone https://github.com/juj/emsdk.git
	cd emsdk
	rd /s /q clang
	rd /s /q emscripten
	rd /s /q java
	rd /s /q node
	rd /s /q python
	rd /s /q zips
	git reset --hard HEAD
	git checkout master

	(defun dotspacemacs/layers ()
	"Configuration Layers declaration.
	You should not put any user code in this function besides modifying the variable
	values."
	(setq-default
	;; Base distribution to use. This is a layer contained in the directory
	;; `+distribution'. For now available distributions are `spacemacs-base'
	;; or `spacemacs'. (default 'spacemacs)
	dotspacemacs-distribution 'spacemacs
	;; Lazy installation of layers (i.e. layers are installed only when a file

	#!/bin/bash

	# Run cputhrottle for a list of applications in order to limit their CPU usage.
	# This script needs `pidof` and `cputhrottle` installed, which can be installed from homebrew.
	# NOTE: This script was tested on MacOS only.

	if [[ $EUID > 0 ]]; then
	echo "Please run this script as root/sudo"
	exit 1
	fi