Jonathan Ragan-Kelley jrk

macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

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Approachable PL Papers for Undergrads

On September 28, 2021, I asked on Twitter:

PL Twitter:

you get to recommend one published PL paper for an undergrad to read with oversight by someone experienced. the paper should be interesting, approachable, and (mostly) self-contained.

what paper do you recommend?

Merlin's Wisdom Project

Or: “Everybody likes being given a glass of water.”

By Merlin Mann.

It's only advice for you because it had to be advice for me.

	#!/usr/bin/perl

	## Put this (Perl) file in the root of your Overleaf project. It overrides the
	## `pdflatex` compilation command to run GhostScript as a post-process which will
	## compress non-JPEG images to JPEG in the output PDF file. The JPEG quality
	## settings are set to high to minimize the loss of image quality. This should
	## work well even for images that contain a lot of high-frequency noise.
	## To disable, simply rename the file to something other than latexmkrc.
	##
	## Created by Iliyan Georgiev.

	# THIS LINUX SETUP SCRIPT HAS MORPHED INTO A WHOLE PROJECT: HTTPS://OMAKUB.ORG
	# PLEASE CHECKOUT THAT PROJECT INSTEAD OF THIS OUTDATED SETUP SCRIPT.
	#
	#

	# Libraries and infrastructure
	sudo apt update -y
	sudo apt install -y \
	docker.io docker-buildx \
	build-essential pkg-config autoconf bison rustc cargo clang \

	#!/bin/bash
	# This script backs up files using restic and sends emails on success or errors.
	#
	# Files that the script expects:
	# /usr/local/etc/restic/repo.env: shell variables that define the restic repository
	# /usr/local/etc/restic/include.txt: paths to back up
	# /usr/local/etc/restic/exclude.txt: paths to not include in the backup, even if they are in include.txt
	#
	# Inspired by https://gist.github.com/perfecto25/18abbd6cfbaa4e9eb30251470e9b7504

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby
	#
	# Play a command-line version of Wordle
	#
	# Original game by Josh Wardle: https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
	#
	# Installation and usage:
	#
	# 1. Save this file somewhere as play-wordle.rb
	# 2. Run `ruby play-wordle.rb`

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby
	#
	# Trying to guess what the best first-choice word in Wordle might be.
	#
	# Author: Rob Miller <[email protected]>

	# Boosts the score of a word that matches the first letter, with the
	# rationale that getting the first letter makes the word easier for
	# a human being to guess
	FIRST_LETTER_WEIGHT = 2

	const app = Application.currentApplication()
	app.includeStandardAdditions = true

	function getJSON(path) {
	const fullPath = path.replace(/^~/, app.pathTo('home folder'))
	const contents = app.read(fullPath)
	return JSON.parse(contents)
	}

	function run() {