Week in Review #1
I often read one great smallweb blog called 82Mhz. Author has a habit to weekly post «Linkdumps» with interesting articles, videos, blogs he read or saw that week. I like that idea, so I'm gonna steal it.
This week was quite busy: a lot of work, a lot of texts, a lot of reading. Quite a cliche, but I'm reading Wilhelm Wegner's «Rome» (so yeah, guys are always thinking about Roman empire, I guess): huge tome that is hard to get away from.
I've spent quite some time with Dillo — it's an interesting web browser for The Olden Web. I've been playing with its plugin interface but in the process I broke something and still can't figure out what. Now some plugins aren't working and Dillo can't connect to its plugin server (it's a separate process). Even Bookmarks aren't working. That's truly strange.
Anyways, there's been a lot of tidying up on my desktop and not a lot of time to surf the Web. But still I stumbled upon some interesting things.
Articles
Randy Ridenour shared his story on how he came to writing in Emacs and why there is NO such a thing as «Emacs writing experience». I like reading such personal stories about adopting software.
Eric Holscher explains why you shouldn't use Markdown for documentation. That's quite an old text from 2016 but the points are still valid. That being said I personally never thought Markdown's problematic areas as such, and I use Markdown for translating books. Still, it was an interesting reading.
Indieweb
That's definitely one of the best sources for everything Slackware and OpenBSD.
No, it's not, but if you carefully choose your tests it can be. Quite an interesting and funny post.
I have tested it myself and OpenBSD is faster on my weak laptop with 1.6GHz CPU than Linux desktop with 3.2 GHz CPU. There's a link to explanation in the article.
Movies
- Freud's Last Session (2024)
This movie set in September 1939 (re)creates (somewhat) imaginary meeting of dying Dr. Siegmund Freud with the very Clive Staples Lewis. They meet when the world is plunged into chaos of World War II. Darkness comes, and two gentlemen, dying and young, argue about existence of God.
I wouldn't call this movie a revelation or life-changing experience. It's just a good movie that is illuminated by brilliant performance of Anthony Hopkins (Dr. Siegmund Freud) and Matthew Goode (C. S. Lewis; good Lord, Matthew Goode is a shapeshifter — just compare his rendering of Lewis with his role in an amazing Netflix police drama Dept. Q!) Also, I would mention that it's a movie that is a feast for an eye — contemporary interiors are recreated with such meticulousness that you just want to move there and live for the rest of your life.
That's it for this week, I guess!