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M-x apropos Emacs

I think it’s safe to say many people regard the Emacs Web Wowser (henceforth eww) as a toy, not really usable as web browser. They’ll say “maybe for documentation” (meaning: to read documentation for some piece of software). Of course, there is plenty of...

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New design for the FreeBSD website

The commit introducing the new design: https://cgit.freebsd.org/doc/commit/?id=c9c518d9dbb70240c23810f300ce4a5ba60442c6 Comments

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Don't answer the first question

In my work on Perfetto, a performance debugging tool, one question I get often is: “how do I split a Perfetto trace into multiple files?” Instead of answering directly, I say: “there isn’t an easy way to do that, but what’s leading you to collect traces...

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Coding on Paper

About three months ago, I bought the Onyx BOOX 25.3” Mira Pro Color, an e-ink monitor for desktop use. I’ve used it as my primary monitor since, and I’ve had a lot of questions about it. This is my experience report, from the perspective of a working, still...

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