Alastair M. D. Touw @amdt@mastodon.social

I hate computers (and programming is terrible). 💩

7–11’s got the orchestral versions of popular Christmas tunes going. Christmas in Japan is somewhat depressing so I’m not keen on getting in the mood… but perhaps I could watch Home Alone or Die Hard.

There’s no way I could get this research done without the Tree Style Tab extension for Firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/

I’m sure that once I’ve figured this all out I won’t think it was as hard as I’m thinking it will be now… but it also seems like the kind of thing that if I fuck it up it will be difficult to fix and correct.

要注意が必要.

I’ve honestly barely touched my computer all weekend because now I’m blocking on researching a relatively secure method of key management.

On the other hand I made some progress in Pokémon Let’s Go and completed Katamari Damacy.

One advanced guide to generating keys recommends starting with an air-gapped machine made before Intel introduced their management engine and rotating cross-signed, short-expiration subkeys stored offline on smartcards.

I mean, yes, but also, no, come on, that threat model surely involves an APT such as an intelligence agency.

I just want to sign my commits, man.

I solved part one of day one of the Advent of Code and I was about to initialise a Git repository and make that initial commit when I remembered: I’d decided I’d create a GPG key pair and sign the commits of the next repo. I’d publish.

I’ve been dreading this day.

When I was a teenager I’d be impressed with weeks- or months-long system uptimes but these days I’d just wonder how many security updates are waiting to be installed. 😕

I spent so many years using #MacPorts (maybe a decade?) that I still type, ‘sudo port install’, about half the time, rather than, ‘sudo dnf install’… some habits are hard to break.

I managed to get past the decision paralysis! I trashed my #Emacs config. I started using Straight (it’s great!). I gave up on Spacemacs for its complexity. While I was at it, I thought I’d give #Zenburn a try (over dark Solarized). That’s a handsome editor!

I thought Keybase was a particularly well-designed key server, but now it appears to be some kind of chat and file-sharing application. Did they, “pivot”?

I want to try solving the Advent of Code (https://adventofcode.com/) in Emacs Lisp but I’m blocking on whether I should declare, ‘.emacs’, bankruptcy and whether I should replace the default package management with, ‘straight.el’ (https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el), or just use Spacemacs (http://spacemacs.org/).

Which level of Dante’s Inferno is this amount of indecision and executive disfunction?

There’s a nice discussion about using #Emacs everywhere on #Lobsters that’s got me reconsidering #EXWM. 🤔 https://lobste.rs/s/whaez0/emacs_everywhere