Fabio Natali @fabionatali@mastodon.social

Just to be clear, it doesn't have to be a LaTeX template.

LaTeX would be great, as that's what I'd be using ultimately, but I'm perfectly fine with a general set of guidelines or design system.

Dear Lazy Fediverse,

Anyone knows of a design system [0] that is meant for text-based printed materials (eg a report) as opposed to websites, mobile apps, etc?

The ideal system should:
- work for printed reports that are mostly text-based
- come with a series of example templates

I suppose I'm looking for something along the lines of a Tufte [1] design guide?

- [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_system
- [1] https://tufte-latex.github.io/tufte-latex/

For all #Emacs users and all lispers in the room, but also for everyone interested in 30 years of CS history and programming language design, here's [0] a good long read on the evolution of Emacs #Lisp.

It must have been circulated widely already, but just in case you've missed it...

- [0] https://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~monnier/hopl-4-emacs-lisp.pdf

Random-typing and mistyping is how I developed most of my computer skills (lol).

A mistyped tmux key combo (prefix + t) gave me access to this nice console clock. :) <3

#til #LifeInAConsole

A lovely #dataviz of the physical internet (with links to relevant datasets). https://densitydesign.github.io/teaching-dd15/course-results/es01/group04/ ❤️

Today I was thought this expression "the spanner in the works" and now I want it to be my job description. :)

Reflections on 24/7 techno-capitalism: "we sleep less, but we might learn how to sleep faster". Tooted while struggling with insomnia, aka #SelfFulfillingToot.
http://www.berlinartlink.com/2020/02/11/technologies-of-care-an-interview-with-elisa-giardina-papa/

> #Guile can use the #GNU Readline library. This is not enabled by default because of licensing reasons [...].

What?!

https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Readline.html

#lisp #scheme

I'd have expected an IndexError from the slicing too.

```
a = [0, 1, 2,]
a[3] # Gives an IndexError
a[3:] # Gives []
```

#TIL #Python

"The Missing Semester of Your CS Education", an MIT series of lectures that covers many unix-y programming tools and topics (CLI to Vim, makefiles to encryption, ...). I'm bookmarking this here. https://missing.csail.mit.edu/