Sven Sporer sohooo

It's hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: "America's right to know." It seems almost cruel to ask, ingeniously, "America's right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Foreign languages?"

None of those things, of course. In fact, one might well suppose that the popular feeling is that Americans are a lot better off without any of that tripe.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way throughout political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

Politicians have routinely striven to speak the language of Shakespeare and Milton as ungrammaticaly as possible in order to avoid offending their audiences by appearing to have gone to school. Thus, Adlai Stevenson, who incautiously allowed intelligence and learning and wit to peep out of his speeches, found the American people

A top-down look into Elixir (for Rubyists)

Phoenix (as "Rails for Elixir")
- Rails and Phoenix can get suspiciously similar
- A code sample:
controller.rb

Guide to your first Tree-sitter grammar

NOTE: The Tree-sitter API and documentation has changed and improved since this guide was created. I can't guarantee this is up to date.

About

Tree-sitter is the new way Atom is providing language recognition features, such as syntax highlighting, code folding, autocomplete, and more. In contrast to TextMate grammars, which work by regex matching, Tree-sitter will generate an entire syntax tree. But more on that can be found in it's own docs.

Here, we look at making one from scratch.

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.

	* {
	font-size: 12pt;
	font-family: monospace;
	font-weight: normal;
	font-style: normal;
	text-decoration: none;
	color: black;
	cursor: default;
	}

	#!/usr/bin/perl

	# This filter changes all words to Title Caps, and attempts to be clever
	# about uncapitalizing small words like a/an/the in the input.
	#
	# The list of "small words" which are not capped comes from
	# the New York Times Manual of Style, plus 'vs' and 'v'.
	#
	# 10 May 2008
	# Original version by John Gruber:

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	require 'time'

	def die(str)
	$stderr.puts str
	exit
	end

	def usage

	#!/usr/bin/env python3

	import os
	import shutil
	import subprocess
	import random

	from argparse import ArgumentParser
	from argparse import REMAINDER
	from pathlib import Path

	CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS "unaccent"

	CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION slugify("value" TEXT)
	RETURNS TEXT AS $$
	-- removes accents (diacritic signs) from a given string --
	WITH "unaccented" AS (
	SELECT unaccent("value") AS "value"
	),
	-- lowercases the string
	"lowercase" AS (

	# frozen_string_literal: true

	source "https://rubygems.org"

	gem 'down'
	gem 'dry-monads'
	gem 'http'