Hraban’s home page
Mostly tech stuff and programming. Smaller microblog hosted under notes.
Nix
Nix: my notes on using Nix. It’s a lot.
Posts / blog
Point-in-time blog posts that I don’t keep updated.
202x
- Quota for Home Dirs using BTRFS
- Literate Programming: Multi- to Monorepository
- Org-mode as a data notebook with Babel
- MathML in Org-mode HTML export, publishing math on the web.
- Macros in Emacs Lisp
- Self-referential .dir-locals.el
- Buying A Camera: my research notes
Archive
Older posts from a previous era:
- Opus in Go, a Golang wrapper for the Opus audio codec.
- Multi- to Monorepository, a tool to migrate multiple repositories into a single monorepo.
- Click the Primes, exploring a browser history leak.
- Simple Tree
- Bit Parity (C)
- Interactive Typing (Lisp, Python)
- Waitable Lock (C#)
- Use literal λ (lambda) character in Common Lisp
- Fallout of The War On Threading
- Minimalistic HTTP Caching Tutorial
- Free T-Shirt Outline in Vector Graphics
- Equality and Identity in Python
- HFS+ Formatted iPod Under Linux
- Yet Another Brute-Force Detector
- A Layman’s Guide to Weblocks (Common Lisp)
- Tail Recursion (C)
- Relocate Subversion Repository (talk about dating yourself…)
- Unicode in Python 2
- What exactly does the Googlebot do on my website?
External Links
Other people
- Rob Watts, check out his website. He’s now the CTO at Wonderbly, after a Machiavellian power struggle.
- Dennis Ogbe: this guy has next level attention to detail. Great resource. And apparently he works at NASA now? Congratulations Dennis.
- Xah Lee (ergoemacs.org) of course gets huge props. Incredibly useful resource for newcomers to Emacs Lisp.
- Daniel Gola makes beautiful art and paintings.
- Doug Pagani writes (wrote) about statistics and data analysis.
- Yogesh Khatri (swiftforensics.com) blogs about OS forensics and security. Varied and interesting stuff.
- Paul Julius Martinez created plaintextsports.com, and his website looks good.
- Andreas Fuchs’ dripfeed blog
Contact me at hraban@0brg.net.
Resumes of friends
- Jesse Zwaan is a guy he codes things. He’s pretty good eh.
- Josh McMillan is a competent tech consultant in the UK. Also my friend. Right, Josh? He just said he agrees.
NPR episodes
I used to listen to a lot of NPR. These were my highlight episodes:
Planet Money
- The Free Food Market (2017): The power of money
- So, Should We Recycle? (2019): The myth of recycling (plastic)
- Waste Land (2020): The provenance of the plastic recycling myth
People often write these off because they either don’t like NPR, or they don’t like things with Money in the name. If that’s you, give it a try.
This American Life
- Testosterone (2002)
- One Last Thing Before I Go (Act 1, 2016): Japanese survivors of the Fukushima tsunami dealing with grief
What they say about me
You look like you came out of seawater.
— Vagrant in Tompkins Square Park
I didn’t get his name, it was mostly a one sided conversation. More like an improvised monologue. Put it on a stage in Bushwick, charge people $15 and the NYT will say it’s groundbreaking.
You’re so good with lists.
— Masha Zhak
Reasons she’s wrong:
- She’s a woman
Why does nobody get your jokes, Hraban?
— Rob Watts
It’s awkward to put that quote here because this stuff isn’t funny but in real life I am pretty funny.
The boring stuff
To contact me, send an e-mail to hraban@0brg.net.
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Move slowly and break things. More to follow somewhere in the next decade.