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“humans are quickly overwhelmed by concurrency and find it much more difficult to reason about concurrent than sequential code. Even careful people miss possible inter-leavings among even simple collections of partially ordered operations.”

• H. Sutter and J. Larus. Software and the concurrency revolution.

The fact that source code starts its life as text is part of what makes wrapping my head around concurrent programs difficult. Closure syntax like that in Rust’s std::thread::spawn certainly help, but it still gets very tricky to keep things straight. I wonder what a non text interface for concurrent programming would look like…

Desktop installable PWAs from Firefox would be so awesome

I want an app that’s just Spotify, but is actually Bandcamp.

New goal: make quill into a PWA

Trying awesomewm again. This time I didn’t copy-paste someone else’s config and it’s going much smoother!

Wishing there was a way to compile “self contained” binaries with luvit. It seems that you still need to have libs like luvit in your path to run the binary when you compile your projects.

Had a great time at the virtual indieweb meetup! Very cool to see what everyone was working on!

Making the switch from alacritty to kitty and it’s really great to have the multiplexer built into the terminal!

A quick overview on how to handle async processes in luv in Neovim

Day 3 of 30 fitness challenge ✅