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From hakyll to comrak based generator

Tl;DR: I decided to gradually switch from hakyll- based framework for this blog to comrak -based custom generator. I’ll migrate both HTML render of posts and RSS feeds in the following few days. You should not see any changes: all the URLs and UUIDs are the same before and after. Until I missed something crucial. I hope I did not. The one exception will be the style of syntax highlighting in the HTML render of posts (and it will probably keep changing for a while more when I experiment with various backends). Background I used hakyll for about 13 years at least since first commit from 25 Novem

trofi - All posts · EN

Giving Up on Saving the World

When I was 19, I decided I was going to save the world. Now, 25 years later, I’ve decided to give up. To explain why and what giving up means, we first need to go back to how I ever got into the world-saving business. As a kid, I loved computers, and I started teaching myself to program them when I was 8. By 16 I could write real programs that did interesting things, and it was also around this time I got into Linux. And since I was into Linux, that meant I read Slashdot . If you weren’t into Linux in the late 90s, you might not even know what Slashdot was. It still exists, but it’s a shell of

LessWrong · EN

On this day in history, in 1948, the Chicago Tribune decided to run with a 'Dewey Defeats Truman' headline [Vintage]

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Fark · EN