Abin Simon meain

Operator Mono w/ Italics on OSX Vim

Testing the matrix.org client-server API

Matrix is:

an open standard for decentralised communication, providing simple HTTP APIs and open source reference implementations for securely distributing and persisting JSON over an open federation of servers.

It's pretty fantastic, if you think on the massive problem of fragmentation all across the web. They've created an easy to use API, and you can do a kludgy test using curl from the terminal (*nix, mac, win). See: http://matrix.org/docs/howtos/client-server.html

It's pretty straightforward to do a quick test. I have an account at https://matrix.org / https://vector.im, so I used that to get a token.

Installation of NixOS with encrypted root

These are my notes on instaling NixOS 16.03 on a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (4th generation) with an encrypted root file system using UEFI.

Most of this is scrambled from the following pages:

Virtual Hosts on nginx (CSC309)

When hosting our web applications, we often have one public IP address (i.e., an IP address visible to the outside world) using which we want to host multiple web apps. For example, one may wants to host three different web apps respectively for example1.com, example2.com, and example1.com/images on the same machine using a single IP address.

How can we do that? Well, the good news is Internet browsers

	;;; eglot-booster.el --- boost eglot using emacs-lsp-booster -- lexical-binding: t; --
	;; Copyright (C) 2024 J.D. Smith

	;;; Commentary:

	;; UPDATE This has been superseded by the following package:
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	;;
	;; Boost eglot with emacs-lsp-booster.
	;; 1. Download a recent emacs-lsp-booster from

	#!/usr/bin/env swift

	// Based on https://github.com/chbrown/macos-pasteboard/issues/8#issuecomment-906537204

	import Cocoa
	import Foundation

	let pasteboard: NSPasteboard = .general

	let dataTypeName : String = "public.html"

	const drawille = require('drawille')
	const bunny = require('bunny')
	const glmatrix = require('gl-matrix')
	const width = 200
	const height = 200
	const canvas = new drawille(width, height)
	const mat4 = glmatrix.mat4
	const vec3 = glmatrix.vec3

	let points = []

	const hoverTime = 400
	const fetchers = {}
	const doc = document.implementation.createHTMLDocument('prefetch')

	function fetchPage (url, success) {
	const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest()
	xhr.open('GET', url)
	xhr.setRequestHeader('VND.PREFETCH', 'true')
	xhr.setRequestHeader('Accept', 'text/html')
	xhr.onreadystatechange = () => {

	# GIT heart FZF
	# -------------

	is_in_git_repo() {
	git rev-parse HEAD > /dev/null 2>&1
	}

	fzf-down() {
	fzf --height 50% --min-height 20 --border --bind ctrl-/:toggle-preview "$@"
	}

	/* bling.js */
	window.$ = document.querySelector.bind(document);
	window.$$ = document.querySelectorAll.bind(document);
	Node.prototype.on = window.on = function(name, fn) { this.addEventListener(name, fn); };
	NodeList.prototype.__proto__ = Array.prototype;
	NodeList.prototype.on = function(name, fn) { this.forEach((elem) => elem.on(name, fn)); };